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Staff
Julia Bliven
blivenj@ihare.org
Julia Bliven is a native of Central New York and is an active member of that community. She has been an English teacher at Liverpool High School for more than thirty years. She has been an active advisor for several student groups such as student council, honor society and student charity drives. She earned her B.S. and M.S. from the State University of Oswego. She has completed humanities programs studying abroad at the University of Pisa, Italy, and the University of London.
Literature and history are her passions and her teaching philosophy integrates the two areas in her lessons to her students. She is currently involved with the Matilda Gage Foundation where she is an advisor for educational programs to be featured at the historic site where the New York State suffragette once lived. Julia is also a New York State award winning quilt maker who knows that every quilt tells a story. She teaches quilt making and lectures on quilts, quilt patterns and quilters of the past, especially those from the Civil War era.
Vin
Dacquino
dacquinov@ihare.org
Vin
Dacquino is the author of several books for young children
and the biography of Sybil Ludington, a sixteen year
old heroine of the Revolutionary War which he is now
turning into a novel. He has a B.A. in Education from
Mercy College, a M.Ed. in Reading from City College
of New York, and a Masters in Administration from the
College of New Rochelle. He has taught in the Westchester
School system for over thirty years and is presently
the Director of the BEPT Teacher Center for the Pelham,
Eastchester, and Tuckahoe school districts in New York. |
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Peter
Feinman
feinmanp@ihare.org
Peter Feinman has a B.A. in History from the University of
Pennsylvania, an M.B.A. in Accounting from New York University,
a M.Ed. from New York University, and an Ed.D. from Teachers
College, Columbia University. He is president of the Archaeological
Institute of America (AIA) Westchester Society, serves on
the education outreach committees of the AlA and the American
Schools of Oriental Research, is on the advisory boards of
the proposed Westchester Children's Museum and Dig magazine,
and is the New York State Coordinator for the Bureau of Land
Management's Project Archaeology.
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Besty Braun Lane
laneb@ihare.org
Betsy Braun Lane, scholar, artist and educator has been on a journey of research and discovery which has lead her to explore the unrecorded stories of some of the Lower Hudson Valley’s earliest patriots and pioneers. In 2004, utilizing her academic background in history and evolving career as a fine art photographer, she began work on the oral histories of the Underground Railroad in the Hudson River communities of Peekskill, historic Cortlandt and surrounding areas. The ensuing exhibition of artworks and documents was titled, ‘Lost Voices: Choosing Freedom’ and was awarded the 2004 Arts Alive Grant by Westchester Arts Council/NYSCA. Viewers related that they were seeing their history and reading of actual people which allowed them to experience a sense of anticipated reconciliation with their hidden past.
With further research, interviews and the encouragement of The Wiggins Fund (New Fairfield Community Foundation Grant, 2005), she began to formulate a new body of work. Through the inclusion of materials gleaned from one hundred years of collected family memorabilia, 1880’s tintypes of the Peterson/Moshier families, and their family snapshots, then juxtaposed with archival documents and photos from local sources, she developed ‘Looking Past the Blindspot’ a series of twelve large collages. These two bodies of work were exhibited as “Racing on a Broken Road” an exhibition of forty photography-based artworks, installation pieces and accompanying research materials and a thirteen minute documentary film which has been exhibited at the Castle Gallery, College of New Rochelle and until March 9th at the Paramount Center for the Arts, Peekskill, NY, the community which was the source of the material and home of the Peterson and Moshier families.
The thesis of the work has expanded along with her continued inquiries and discoveries. Most simply, the work asks us to address the questions: Who are we as a people? What is our story? Giving presence to historic people of African-European and Native American descent drew viewers to consider the perceptions of race and its origins in a very local sense.
Thematically this exhibition represents the centuries-long journey of peoples of African -American descent on their quest to attain the rights of full citizenship and describes the evolution of our national democratic process. The exhibition has been seen by over 2000 people. The Journal News adapted the work as central topic of its 2008 February Special Ed. Supplement on Civil Rights, which reached 5K students in the Lower Hudson Valley.
During these past four years, she has spoken to a diverse range of people about the research and subjects of this exhibition. It is many-layered and allows the viewer to reflect on regional, local and personal applications, bringing history to life.
David
Moyer
moyerd@ihare.org
David Moyer is a summa cum laude graduate of the City
University of New York with a degree in Egyptology. He teaches
classes in the art and archeology of Egypt and other ancient
civilizations at the Continuing Education Division of Marymount
Manhattan College and the Adult Education School of Montclair,
NJ. He is noted for his beautifully illustrated slide lectures
from his vast personal collection. Prof. Moyer is widely traveled
and often provides slide images for TV documentaries and for The
Teaching Company's educational videos. He is special correspondent
and columnist for KMT: A Modern Journal of Ancient Egypt.
Ray
Raymond
raymondr@ihare.org
A
former political officer of the British Consulate
Office, New York,
Professor Ray Raymond is a specialist in American
history and American politics. He teaches at the State
University of New York at Ulster and at the US Military
Academy, West Point. He was educated at the University
of Dublin, the University of Kansas and Yale. Professor
Raymond is a well-known British scholar of the American
Revolution and a sought after speaker on colonial
American history. He has spoken at the 225th anniversary
of virtually every major battle of the Revolutionary
War. Among other major lectures, Professor Raymond
has delivered the inaugural public lecture for Columbia
University's 250th anniversary "Kings, Columbia
and the Crown: The University and Anglo-American Relations
1754-2003", The Fraunces
Tavern Lecture (2004) "Britain and the American Revolution",
"Anglo-American Relations 1750-1950 : Lessons from the
Past opening address to the UK Joint Services Defence Academy
conference on the "Special Relationship" (2005)
and "John Jay Founding Diplomat" at the
Jay Homestead (2005) and "The Arnold/Andre Conspiracy:
A British Perspective" closing address to the "Patriots
Weekend" Conference "Treason: The Arnold/Andre
Conspiracy."
Professor
Raymond has been an adviser to the National Park Service on
its "Washington-Rochambeau Trail" project and the
restoration of Yorktown Historic site.
His
latest work on the history of UK-US relations has just been
published by the US Army War College. He is currently working
on a diplomatic biography of John Jay. |
