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Learning from the Past: Sustainable Life with Renewable Energy
June 8, 2009
Todd A. Burdick director, education, Hancock Shaker Village

Todd Burdick, education director at the Hancock Shaker Village, discusses how an organization can draw upon lessons from the past to present today’s visitors with options for a sustainable lifestyle. Burdick presents a case study of HSV’s new mission, vision, interpretive themes, and programming, which emphasize historic to modern discussions and demonstrations of renewable energy, sustainable agriculture, historic preservation, and social justice topics.

This lecture is part of the Mass Historical Society's 2009 Energy and Social Change Conference. The annual Massachusetts History Conference is cosponsored by Mass Humanities, the University of Massachusetts Amherst Program in Public History, and the Massachusetts Historical Society.

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