Once secondary or even hidden, historic kitchens…
are now taking center stage as active, complex, and captivating spaces for history experiences. This intensive one-day conference, in partnership with the American Association for State and Local History (AASLH) and designed for historic house and museum directors, curators, exhibit designers, educators, and interpreters, will immerse you in the flavorful world of historic house kitchens. Join seasoned experts and museum practitioners in exploring the untapped potential of food spaces with sessions on restoration, curation, interpretation, and programming.
The program’s format will include a keynote address, panel discussion and break out sessions as well as a tour of Old Westbury Gardens. Continental breakfast and lunch are included in the registration fee.
Particpants:
Lorraine Gilligan, Director of Preservation, Old Westbury Gardens, Helena Gomez, Vizcaya Museum and Gardens, Lauren McCormack, Executive Director, Marblehead Museum, Kristin Gallas, Principal, MUSE Consulting, Riah Kinsey, Public Programs Manager, Prospect Park Alliance, K. Kennedy Whiters, Principal, wrkSHäp kiloWatt, Tonya Hopkins, The Food Griot/Lefferts House Advisor, Silvermoon LaRose, Tomaquag Museum, Chenae Bullock, Moskehtu Consulting, Sarah Litvin, Founding Director, Reher Center for Immigrant Culture and History, Victoria Berrios, Education Manager, Reher Center for Immigrant Culture and History, Dolan Cochran, Tenement Museum, Kathleen Wall, Culinary Historian and Visitor Services & Public Programs Manager, Pilgrim Hall Museum, Lavada Nahon, Culinary Historian and Intepreter of African American History, New York State Parks Bureau of Historic Sites
Location
The main presentations will take place in the Barn at Orchard Hill, an example of adaptive reuse of a 19th c. building on the Old Westbury Gardens property.
Registration
Fee: $145; includes continental breakfast, lunch, reception
10% off for AASLH and LIMA members
Registration begins March 1, 2024.
Space will be limited so plan now.
Keynote Speaker Sarah Lohman
Keynote Speaker
Sarah Lohman: culinary historian and author of Eight Flavors: The Untold Story of American Cuisine and Endangered Eating: America’s Vanishing Food (named one of the Best Books of 2023 by Amazon’s Editors, Food & Wine, In the Milk Street podcast.
Preliminary Conference Program
8:30 a.m. Continental Breakfast (provided)
9:00 a.m. Conference Begins: Welcome, Keynote Address
9:45 Session 1 (Restoration)
10:30 Break
10:45 Session 2 (Designing Interpretation)
11:30 Break
11:45 Session 3 (Collaborations)
12:30 Lunch (provided)
1:30 Session 4 (Interpreting Commercial Kitchens)
2:15 Break
2:30 Closing Conversation
3:30 Tour the newly restored Service Wing at Westbury House and hear about the restoration, interpretation, and development of the “Secrets of the Service Wing” tour
4:30 Happy Hour Reception and Food Swap
Questions: Contact Paul Hunchak phunchak@oldwestburygardens.org