Living on the Edge of Empire: Alliance, Conflict and Captivity in Colonial New England

FAIN: BH-267081-19

Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association (Deerfield, MA 01342-5004)
Lynne Manring (Project Director: February 2019 to July 2024)

Two one-week workshops for 72 school teachers on cross-cultural contact and conflict in colonial New England, focused on the 1704 French and Indian Raid on Deerfield, Massachusetts.   

The Deerfield Teachers’ Center of the Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association, a nationally recognized professional development provider, seeks $169,998 to fund two Landmarks Workshops for K-12 Teachers July 12 – 17, 2020 and July 26 – 31, 2020. Living on the Edge of Empire: Alliance, Conflict and Captivity in Colonial New England will take place in the beautiful Old Deerfield Village Historic Landmark District and surrounding historic sites. This workshop will bring together a full range of resources—landscape, architecture, artifacts, documents, oral histories—which, combined with secondary interpretations, illuminate competing perspectives on the colonial period. It will offer K-12 educators tools to engage students in learning topics related to the history of colonial America, including cultural interaction on the frontier, colonization, and the European imperial struggle for control of North America which ultimately set the stage for the American Revolution.