Public Program: Working Toward Some Consensus

Date: April 17th
Time: 11am to 3pm
Locations: Yager Museum and Frisbee Field
Offerings: Exhibit, activities, and refreshments

Purpose:
1) Raise awareness of Hartwick students, faculty and staff about the Yager Museum
2) Engage peers in dialogue about domestic life development and transition that has occurred during the last 150 years
3) Engage peers in the Yager Museum exhibit and hands-on activities that illustrate the following areas of the transition and development of domestic life:
a) Technology
b) Dining/Etiquette
c) Crafts

Goals:
1) Technology: Illustrate the difference in today's technology (often taken for granted) compared to what was available in the 19th century and early 20th century.
2) Dining/Etiquette: Illustrate the development of dining/etiquette and its meaning.
3) Crafts: Define and illustrate the development of piece work in the home and today's craft work.

Objectives:
1) Technology areas for activitites
a) Ironing
b) Coffee grinding
c) Laundry
d) Scavenger hunt question

2) Dining/Etiquette activities
a) Place setting/greetings
b) Tea/coffee drinking
c) Calling cards and meaning
d) Scavenger hunt question

3) Crafts actitivities
a) Candle making (two locations- then and now)
b) Piecework (two locations- then and now)
c) Calling cards
d) Quilting element/design (African American voice)
e) Piecework/flower making
f) Scavenger hunt question