Conference announcement is posted by request. --Moderator, NYHIST-L * * * * * * * Dear Colleagues, The Program and Registration Form for the 2007 Conference on New York State History is now available at: http://www.nyhistory.com/cnysh/CNYSH2007Program.htm The Conference will meet at Cooperstown on June 7-9, hosted by the New York State Historical Society. We celebrate fifty years of annual conferences beginning with the First College Conference on New York History held at Cooperstown in 1957. The Wendell Tripp Lecture "The Layers of New York History: A Look Across Time at Rensselaer County" will be given by Edward Countryman, the author of the Bancroft Prize winning book A People in Revolution: The American Revolution and Political Society in New York, 1760-1790, among other works. David William Voorhees will give the keynote lecture on the Flushing Remonstrance, and Elizabeth Bradley will speak on Father Knickerbocker in the Twentieth Century. On Thursday the Upstate History Alliance is presenting a workshop with Carol Kammen and others on developing community history projects. Other conference highlights include tours of The Farmers' Museum, the Fenimore Art Museum, the Thayer Homestead, Hyde Hall, the Hanford Mills Museum, and the Iroquois Indian Museum. Hope to see you there, Edward Knoblauch, Webmaster New York History Net