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SIA 2010 Fall Tour
Vermont • September 16-19, 2010
The Fall Tour is completely booked.
Registration is closed.
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The Fall Tour is completely booked.
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Message to all Fall Tour attendee's from Jay McCauley, President of the SIA
I'm really looking forward to the 2010 Fall Tour. The organizing committee has created an excellent, highly varied program. One of the destinations, Shelburne Farms, is the subject of an article in the Sept/Oct issue of the National Trust for Historic Preservation magazine.
Here's the on-line version: http://www.preservationnation.org/magazine/2010/september-october/glided-aged-glory-so10.html
I'd like to encourage everyone to share their experiences and images as part of our on-going efforts to make use of social media and photo sharing sites to reach out to folks interested in IA, but who might not be aware of the SIA. These sites allow images or prose snippets to be tagged to make them easier to find. Please use the tag #sia2010vt The more general #indus_heritage is also a good one to use. We'd also encourage geotagging images, that is supplying the lat/lon coordinates where the image was taken. Smartphones can do this automatically, or you can do it manually after uploading the image.
Here are some places to share: (all of these are unofficial and somewhat experimental for the SIA)
SIA Facebook Group: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=60093278387
SIA Flickr Group: http://www.flickr.com/groups/1275453@N22/
Twitter.com: there isn't currently an account for the SIA, but several of us will be "tweeting" as time permits.
All of these are free, and are very easy to use. Go ahead, try it, you just might like it!
See you in Vermont!
Yours in IA,
jay
Jay McCauley
President
Cornish-Windsor Bridge over the Connecticut River, the country's longest at 450 ft
This year's fall tour will take us to the Green Mountain state of Vermont. Headquartered in Montpelier, the smallest U.S. state capital (pop. 8,035). We will also spend time in the granite quarrying center of Barre, visit the tool making legacies of Windsor and Springfield in the Connecticut River valley, the copper mining district of eastern Vermont and Burlington in the west.
The Tour Headquarters and primary lodging venue will be the Vermont College of Fine Arts (VCFA), located within walking distance of Montpelier’s downtown. Tours will depart from and return to VCFA. Most tours will have an early departure (7AM or so) due to the distances to their venues.
Tours will include characteristically Vermont dairy, lumber, covered bridges, some unique outdoor museums, and important extractive industries including copper and granite. Make your plans to visit and tour the scenic industrial archeology of Vermont!
The Fall Tour brochure was mailed to all current SIA members on July 14, 2010.
Logistics
Weather in mid-September can be variable, with hot humid days still possible, and cool nights. Rain is possible.
All of the usual SIA Road Rules will apply. Take special note of the hard hat requirement for the Friday Granite Tour (F1) and the shoe requirements for the Saturday Copper Mine Tour (S1). Please note the SIA Policy on Refunds. Tours and content are always subject to change, including cancellation.
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Society for Industrial Archeology
Email: sia@mtu.edu
Tel.: 906-487-1889
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