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Subject: [SANET-MG] Rural Heritage Institute at Sterling College, VT
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2008 13:34:05 -0400
From: Pavel Cenkl <pcenkl@STERLINGCOLLEGE.EDU>
Pavel Cenkl <pcenkl@STERLINGCOLLEGE.EDU>
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Rural Heritage Institute at Sterling College:
The Place of Work in Rural Communities

June 10-14, 2008
Sterling College
Craftsbury Common, VT

Institute Registration Now Open:
www.sterlingcollege.edu/ruralheritage

The Rural Heritage Institute at Sterling College (RHI) is a four-day
series of interdisciplinary academic, experiential, and instructional
field-based workshops scheduled for June 10-14, 2008.
Each of the four days of the event will highlight and strengthen
connections between scholarship on rural communities in northern New
England and field experience with and in working communities
throughout the region.

The Institute emphasizes a model of community learning and
experiential academics shared by our host venue. Sterling College,
located only 30 miles from the Canadian border in the heart of
Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom, is an ideal place in which to explore the
interwoven threads of place, culture, and community heritage.

Featured speakers and partners include:

Willem Lange, author of Where Does the Wild Goose Go? and Intermittent
Bliss and VPR commentator
John Miller, photographer and author of Granite and Cedar and Deer Camp
Kent Ryden, Director of the New England and American Studies Program
at USM and author of Landscape with Figures: Nature and Culture in New
England and Mapping the Invisible Landscape
Natalie Kinsey-Warnock, author of more than 20 young reader and
picture books, including As Long as There are Mountains, When Spring
Comes, and The Canada Geese Quilt.
Leland Kinsey, author of The Immigrant's Contract
John Harris, Director of The Monadnock Institute for Place, Nature,
and Culture
The NorthWoods Stewardship Center
The Fairbanks Museum
The Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment
See program website for other Institute topics
The Institute will highlight field workshops in the surrounding rural
agricultural communities as well as a Local Foods Banquet, Regional
Music Interlude, and a Building Bridges Open House for thirty local
and regional rural heritage, land use, and agricultural organizations.
The Institute is appropriate for a broad range of practitioners,
scholars, community members, and under/graduate students, and teachers
who are passionate about solidifying the connections between
community, academic scholarship, and meaningful work in the field.

Sterling College, in partnership with The Northeast Kingdom School
Development Center at Lyndon State College, is offering 2 graduate or
undergraduate credits for participation in the Institute.

For more information, see the Institute website, 
www.sterlingcollege.edu/ruralheritage
 or email ruralheritage@sterlingcollege.edu



Pavel Cenkl, Ph.D.
Dean of Academics
Sterling College
16 Sterling Drive
Craftsbury Common, VT 05827
802-586-7711 ext. 140
pcenkl@sterlingcollege.edu
www.sterlingcollege.edu