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Smithsonian Traveling Exhibition, Fences
Saturday, November 4, 2006 thru Sunday, December 17, 2006
Description: Exhibit provides a cultural history of fencing traditions and explores cultural settlement and expansion, farming and agricultural history, the evolution of our national boundaries and fences as expressions of ownership, identity and social relationships
Lead Organization: Heritage Alliance  [More Events]
Sponsored By: Humanities Tennessee
Location: See Directions
Locale: _Other E.T. County_
Main Website: http://www.heritageall.org
For More Info: Call Deborah at (423) 753-9580 or Email dmontanti@heritageall.org
More Information: Scroll Below for Directions and the Long Description of this event
Category: Arts and Culture -- Exhibits / Visual Arts  [More Events]  [Similar Events]


Long Description or Press Release:
Museum Hosts Smithsonian Traveling Exhibit

The Jonesborough/Washington County History Museum hosts the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Between Fences beginning on November 4, 2006 through December 17, 2006. This exhibit, sponsored by Humanities Tennessee, provides a lively cultural history of fences and fencing traditions, and explores cultural settlement and expansion, farming and agricultural history, the evolution of our national boundaries, and fences as expressions of ownership, identity and social relationship.

Through a selection of artifacts, photographs, and illustrations, Between Fences explores the diverse historical, regional and social traditions that are expressed in how we use land and organize space. The museum will also feature a companion exhibit of archival photographs of fences in and around the region. Special programming will include a Gallery Talk be Dr. Roberta Herrin, Director Center for Appalachia Studies and Services at East Tennessee State University. Dr. Herrin’s talk will look at the concept of Fences in Literature and the Humanities.Through programs such as community research projects, companion exhibits, and/or book and film discussions, host communities will interpret related local history topics—from the settlement of their counties to the legacy of barriers based on race and class—and link their projects to Humanities Tennessee’s ongoing digital historical and cultural atlas.

These venues and their surrounding communities have been chosen by Humanities Tennessee to host Between Fences as part of the Museum on Main Street project—a partnership of the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service and Humanities Tennessee. Between Fences is one of a series of exhibitions circulating nationally as part of Museum on Main Street. The program serves small museums, libraries, and historical societies in rural America.

Humanities Tennessee is a not-for-profit organization that provides public education in the humanities for all Tennesseans. For more information about Humanities Tennessee’s programming, please visit our website at www.humanitiestennessee.org.

Between Fences is funded in part through a Congressional appropriation to the Smithsonian, and in part with funds from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Directions:
From Knoxville: Take 1-81 North toward Bristol to Exit 23. From Exit 23 stay on 11-E for about 40 miles to Jonesborough. Turn right at the traffic light. Visitors Center is second brick building on right.

From Asheville: Take I-26 West toward Johnson City to Exit 18 in Erwin. From Exit 18 turn left onto Hwy. 81 North and drive approximately 18 miles to Jonesborough. Go through the Historic District on Main Street. Turn left onto Boone Street. Visitors Center is first large brick building on left past Sabin Drive.

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