UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE/OFF CAMPUS ELDERHOSTEL SPEAKERS
Funi Burdick is Director of Education and Interpretation at Strawbery Banke Museum in Portsmouth. Ms. Burdick's background combines a professional degree in architecture from the Rhode Island School of Design with extensive design experience and a practical knowledge of museum interpretation and teaching. As head of the Education department, she oversees daily interpretation, role playing, school and youth programming, and events. She has recently developed the interpretation of the museum's newest restoration "Becoming Americans, The Shapiro Story", and co-authored the multimedia productions for the exhibition which include a CD-Rom and an audiovisual presentation.
Eliga Gould is an Assistant Professor of History at UNH. He holds degrees from Princeton (AB, summa cum laude, 1983); the University of Edinburgh (MSc, 1987); and Johns Hopkins (PhD, 1993). He is currently finishing a book on Britain and the American Revolution, which will be published by the University of North Carolina Press.
Christopher Kies, an associate professor of piano at UNH, where he has been teaching since 1979, received B.M. degrees in piano and composition from the New England Conservatory and an M.F.A. and Ph.D. in composition from Brandeis University. He has been a recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship to study composition in Koln, Germany, and of Individual Artist Fellowship from New Hampshire State Council on the Arts. Among the orchestras he has performed with are the Boston Symphony, Buffalo Philharmonic, Seattle Symphony and New England Conservatory Orchestra.
Mark Sammons is Director of Research at Strawbery Banke Museum in Portsmouth, NH where he has worked since 1989. He has also worked at Old Sturbridge Village, Hancock Shaker Village, and the Berkshire County Historical Society, all in Massachusetts. He has also studied in Rome and Britain, the latter at the Attingham Summer School conducted by the National Trust and the Victoria and Albert Museum. He took his degree in History from Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. His specialty is New England social history.
Darryl Thompson is a Shaker scholar (though he is not of the Shaker religion himself). He counts the Canterbury Shakers as his "adopted family" and has lived part-time and full-time with the Shakers for thirty-one years. Darryl has just completed his MA from UNH in American History.
Bob Tuttle is retired and volunteers his time and expertise as a Marine Docent for the University of New Hampshire Sea Grant Program.
David Watters is the James H. Hayes and Claire Short Hayes Chair in the Humanities. He has taught English and American Studies at UNH since 1978. Currently the coeditor of the Encyclopedia of New England Culture, he has published on a variety of New England subjects from Puritan times to the present, including gravestone art, Puritan literature, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Louisa May Alcott, Emily Dickinson, and Jonathan Edwards. He serves as vice chair of the Trustees of the Robert Frost Homestead in Derry, New Hampshire.
Darryl Thompson is a Shaker scholar (though he is not of the Shaker religion himself). He counts the Canterbury Shakers as his "adopted family" and has lived part-time and full-time with the Shakers for thirty-one years. Darryl has just completed his MA from UNH in American History.
Christopher Kies, an associate professor of piano at UNH, where he has been teaching since 1979, received B.M. degrees in piano and composition from the New England Conservatory and an M.F.A. and Ph.D. in composition from Brandeis University. He has been a recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship to study composition in Koln, Germany, and of Individual Artist Fellowship from New Hampshire State Council on the Arts. Among the orchestras he has performed with are the Boston Symphony, Buffalo Philharmonic, Seattle Symphony and New England Conservatory Orchestra.
Arlene Kies has been a member of the University of New Hampshire piano faculty since 1995. Ms. Kies attended the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, earning B.M. and M.M. degrees in piano performance with honors. As a Fulbright Fellow, Ms. Kies studied in Vienna, Austria. The New Hampshire State Council on Arts awarded Ms. Kies an Individual Artists Fellowship in 1988. She has been on the faculty at Tufts University and taught at Phillips Exeter Academy from 1981-1995. In addition to her regular solo performances, she performs regularly with her husband, pianist Christopher Kies.