Pre-Conference Workshops: Monday, April 26 - Wednesday, April 28 9 a.m. – 4 p.m. “ Creating Interpretive Plans for Historic Sites and Museum Exhibits” Conducted at Lyman Museum, Hilo $95 members/$120 non-members Lunch on your own
	This 3-day workshop is a variation of the Interpretive Planning workshop that has been given by Woods at mainland locations sponsored by the American Association for State and Local History. It will explore a tested and proven process for planning and implementing historic sites and exhibits. Through a mix of lecture, group discussion, and activities, participants will learn the skills and take home models for successful planning of historic sites and outdoor and indoor museum exhibits. The workshop will break down the planning process into three phases Pre-Planning, Planning, and Implementation. Participants will discuss an approach that connects the audience, community, and site or exhibit themes, and interpretive methods in the planning process. The session will explore the planning process which includes Seven Major Building Blocks: Audience, Environmental History Report, Structures Report, Archaeology Report, History Report, Collections Report and Furnishing Plan, Interpretive Plan, and Business Plan. Finally, the workshop will identify a model that organizes exhibits and historic sites interpretive stations around a story, themes, desired learner outcomes, visitor experience, alternative points-of-view, audience relevance, objects and other media. Participants will be encouraged to offer examples from their own museums for use in the workshop’s discussions and activities, so come as prepared as you like in order to take advantage of that opportunity. Comprehensive materials will be distributed to all attending. Presenter: Tom Woods, Ph.D., Making Sense of Place, Inc., Oconomowoc, WI Woods grew up on a farm in Minnesota and did his degree work in American Studies. He began his more than 20-year career in planning, developing, and administering historic sites in 1980 when he became site manager for the Minnesota Historical Society’s Oliver H. Kelley Living History Farm. He served as director of the Minnesota Historical Society’s Historic Sites Department, a network of 31 diverse historic sites. In 1992 he became director of Old World Wisconsin, a 576-acre ethnic, rural living history site with 10 farmsteads and an historic village. In 2001, Woods became director of development, research and interpretation for Seed Savers Exchange, an Iowa non-profit dedicated to preserving heirloom varieties of food crops. Woods has been a consultant to museum for nearly 25 years, but in 2003 he formed Making Sense of Place, Inc., to provide administrative planning, research, interpretive planning, exhibit development and fundraising services to museums and heritage and natural history organizations. During the course of his career, Woods has planned and developed scores of sites and created or directed hundreds of new interpretive programs. He has served as a consultant for planning and developing sites throughout the country, including several in Hawai`i. For two years, he taught a semi-annual workshop on planning and interpreting historic sites that was sponsored by the American Association for State and Local History. The workshop drew rave reviews from participants and we hope that this workshop may provide the same experience for you.

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	Pre-Conference Workshops: Thursday, April 28 11 a.m. – 4 p.m. “ The Basics of Writing Furnishing Plans” Conducted in Lehua Room, KMC $15 members/$20 non-members Lunch included
	This daylong workshop will cover the basics of writing furnishing plans for historic sites and rooms starting with the documents and ending with the plan. Furnishings include such things as wall covering, furniture, wall adornments and lighting fixtures. Participants will be provided with all of the materials needed to write a plan, including primary source documents, period illustrations, and reproduction sources. By the end of the workshop, participants will have learned the techniques of writing a plan, resources available and sources to consult. Time will be allowed to discuss specific problems and issues of the workshop participants. Presenter: Mick Woodcock, Curator of History, Sharlot Hall Museum, Prescott, AZ Woodcock has been a museum curator since 1979. He started the Sharlot Hall Museum’s living history program and has been a member of ALHFAM since 1986, serving on its national board and currently acting as regional representative for the Western Region of ALHFAM. He chairs ALHFAM’s Replica Resource Committee. Woodcock has presented this workshop at numerous mainland sites.

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	Preliminary Conference Schedule (subject to minor changes) Except where noted, all activities take place at Kilauea Military Camp (KMC). Registration & Information, continental breakfasts and refreshment breaks will be located in the large foyer adjacent to the Ohia Room. Thursday, April 29 - $ 70 members / $ 90 non-members Friday, April 30 - $ 70 members / $ 90 non-members Thursday & Friday, April 29 & 30 - $140 members / $180 non-members Thursday, April 29 8 a.m. – 12 noon Registration & Information 8 a.m. – 8:30 a.m. Continental Breakfast 8:45 a.m. – 10:45 a.m. Session 1: “History Alive!” – Ohia Room Living history programming provides a visitor experience like no other. Learn about four sites currently offering living history and discover how you might develop and implement similar programs. Each panelist will share how their sites, each different from its counterparts, utilize living history and the techniques that work best for them and what has not. Presenters: Mick Woodcock, Curator of History, Sharlot Hall Museum, Prescott, AZ; Carol Henderson, Assistant Programs Manager, Workman & Temple Family Homestead Museum, City of Industry, CA; Jill Roehrig Olson, Executive Director, Kona Historical Society, Kealakekua 10:45 a.m. – 11 a.m. Refreshment Break 12 p.m. – 1 p.m. Annual Meetings Luncheons Hawaii Museums Association – Ohia Room Association for Living History, Farm, and Agricultural Museums, Western Region – Lehua Room 1 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. Session 2: “Bringing Objects & Artifacts to Life” – Ohia Room Presenters: Hi'ilani Shibata, Education Operations Manager and Andra Carroll, Education Specialist, Bishop Museum, “Ola Na Mo`olelo” Honolulu; Wei Fang, Curator of Education, The Contemporary Museum, “Art Off the Wall”, Honolulu; Stephanie Chang, Manager of Education and Public Programs, Mission Houses Museum, using artifacts in their education program, Honolulu; Tom Klobe, Director, University of Hawaii at Manoa Art Gallery, “Keia Wai Ola: This Living Water” at the Maui Arts & Cultural Center 4:30 p.m. Bus departs KMC for Hilo 5:30 p.m. “A Night in Historic Hilo” - $35 members/$45 non-members AKA: a “Progressive Pupu Tour” of interesting sites in Historic Downtown Hilo! Eat your way through Hilo at stops including the Lyman Museum, Pacific Tsunami Museum and the Palace Theater. Each location will offer a selection of delicious pupus from area restaurants. 9:30 p.m. Bus departs Hilo for KMC Friday, April 30 8 a.m. – 8:30 a.m. Registration & Information,Continental Breakfast 8:45 a.m. – 10:45 a.m. Session 3: “Addressing Curriculum Standards” – Ohia Room Presenters: Amber Bullock-Gersbach, Education Manager, Heritage Square Museum, Pasadena, CA; Charlene Kojiro, Renewal Specialist, and Roy Kobayashi, Resource Teacher for Comprehensive Student Support System, Department of Education's Hawaii District Office, North Hilo-Laupahoehoe-Waiakea Complex; Dr. Betty Lou Williams, Assistant Professor of Education, University of Hawaii at Manoa College of Education, Honolulu; and Kay Fullerton, Science Education Manager, Bishop Museum, Honolulu 8:45 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. Session 4: “An Overview of the Interpretive Planning Process for Historic Sites and Museum Exhibits” – Lehua Room A summary of the process for planning historic sites and exhibits will be offered. The session introduces participants to the three phases of planning: Pre-Planning, Planning, and Implementation, and to key major planning strategies and a model for interpretive planning historic sites and exhibits. Presenter: Tom Woods, Making Sense of Place, Inc., Oconomowoc, WI 11 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. “What’s New?” – Ohia Room Hear the latest on new and upcoming programs and events, new organizations and sites as well as information on upcoming meetings and seminars of interest locally and nationally. 11:30 a.m. – 12:45 p.m. Lunch – Professional Roundtables – Ohia Room 1 p.m. – 2 p.m. Session 5: “Dirty Pictures in Paradise” – Lehua Room How do you deal with “problem” paintings and their owners? Learn some amusing treatments with peculiar painting conservation problems in Hawaii and what makes them different than the mainland. Presenter: Larry Pace, Painting Conserver, Pace Art Conservation, Honolulu 1 p.m. – 3 p.m. Session 6: “Bringing Stories to Life Using Oral Histories” – Ohia Room Presenters: Noelle M.K.Y. Kahanu, Project Manager, Bishop Museum, “Hui Panala’au,” Honolulu, and a Hilo “guest”; Lucille V. Chung, Community Building Facilitator, Queen Liliu`okalani Children's Trust and participant in the AASLH-award winning “Laupahoehoe School Tsunami Oral History Project”; Donna Saiki, Executive Director, Pacific Tsunami Museum on the Laupahoehoe and other oral histories 3 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. Refreshment Break 3:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. Interpretive Walks & Talks in a Volcano (Bring sunscreen, rain gear if it’s raining and a jacket if it’s cold. Participants will need to get to the starting point of the walk on their own – all are located less than a mile and a half from KMC.) Walk #1: “A glimpse into the past - a walking tour through the pre-park history (1841-1916)” Participants will meet at the Volcano Art Center Porch and visit the original site of the first "volcano house," steam bath ruins, the 1877 Volcano House, Jaggar's Whitney Vault, and the first Park Headquarters. Presenter: Laura C. Schuster, Branch Chief, Cultural Resources, Hawaii Volcanoes National Park Walk #2: “Lithic Block Quarries - What are they, and where did they come from?” Meet at Kilauea Overlook and take a walk through Lithic block ejecta on the rim of Kilauea Caldera. This walk combines aspects of archeology and geology to tell the story of how natural events were part of every day life in Hawaii. The large stone blocks were ejected from a specific eruptive event and scattered on the surface around the rim of Kilauea Caldera. Presenter: Jade Moniz Nakamura, Integrated Resources Mgr., Hawaii Volcanoes National Park Walk #3: “When did Kilauea's caldera and Halema`uma`u form?” Participants will meet and spend time at Jaggar Museum and overlook, as this is the highest point around the Kilauea Caldera to view specific landscape features of the caldera. Research on the eruptive events is tied into the traditional music, chants, and legends of the Kilauea area. Presenter: Don Swanson, Scientist-in-Charge, U.S. Geological Survey, Hawaiian Volcano Observatory, Hawaii Volcanoes National Park 5:30 p.m. Dinner – Cafeteria Enjoy one of Hawaii Island’s best-kept culinary secrets, KMC’s famous Hawaiian Luau Buffet! Join other KMC guests and locals who come regularly on Fridays for ono kalua pig and cabbage, chicken long rice, chicken luau, sweet potatoes, poi, lomi lomi salmon, fresh pineapple, haupia, soup, and salad bar (included in registration fee). 7:30 p.m. Kona Coffee Days – KMC Theater Enjoy a little “after dinner theater” with a dramatic living history play. The Kona Historical Society’s Kona Coffee Days tells the stories of immigrant Japanese coffee pioneers and their Hawaii-born children through the eyes of three characters, Masato Ueda, Kikue Tanioka and Kazuo Hasegawa. The play’s script was adapted from oral history interviews collected and preserved by the Society, written by Hawaii’s award winning playwright Victoria Nalani Kneubuhl, and directed by University of Hawai`i at Hilo-Theater Arts Professor Jackie Pualani Johnson. Presenter: Sheree Chase, Curator & Project Director, Kona Historical Society, Kealakekua

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	Post-Conference Field Trip: Saturday, May 1 Kona Historical Society’s Kona Coffee Living History Farm and Pu`uhonua o Honaunau National Historical Park $45 members/$55 non-members Traditional Japanese style box lunch (bento) and beverage included. 7:45 a.m. bus departs KMC for Kona 9:30 a.m. Farm Tour Hosted by Kona Historical Society Curator & Farm Director – Sheree Chase 12 noon Lunch and walk through Pu`uhonua o Honaunau National Historical Park 1 p.m. Bus departs Park for KMC
	Homesteaded by Japanese immigrants around 1900, the Kona Coffee Living History Farm is an authentic, working, 1930’s coffee and macadamia nut farm that has been preserved & restored. Stroll through historic orchards where 100-year old coffee trees still produce the coffee Kona is famous for. Visit the original home and coffee mill where demonstrations and hands-on activities will give you a glimpse of this by-gone era. Through the use of historic landscapes, authentic buildings, live animals, working equipment and machinery, demonstrations, and costumed interpreters, visitors will learn about daily life on a small family coffee farm between 1900 & 1945. Enjoy some 100% pure Kona coffee, fresh fruits and macadamia nuts grown on the farm. Lunch will be eaten at Pu`uhonua o Honaunau National Historical Park, an ancient Hawaiian “Place of Refuge.” You will have a unique opportunity to tour this very powerful site on the ocean front where one can see heiau (temple-like structures), tiki sentries and reproductions of hale (houses). Sturdy walking shoes, hats and sunscreen recommended.