Art and Life in Early America

Docents using a "mind map" for a creative writing exercise that is now a part of the Early American tour.

Docent Guide 10.24.16 Includes addition of Gallery 22: Karen Hampton, which replaces Gallery 4 Portraits. Karen Hampton exhibit information is under exhibits, or use search engine in the upper right.

Landscape creative writing sample

Loom Docent Guidelines 2.25.16

Routes 10.17.16

Training Videos:

January 30, 2017 Loom Docent Video

October 24, 2016 Updated training with Karen Hampton video

November 4, 2013 Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8, Part 9

November 2, 2015 Art & Life in Early America Tour Review (Part 1) video (Part 2) video (Part 3 Kinau) video (Part 4 Basement Waiting Area/Fireplace Rm.) video (Part 5 Gallery 30) video

Gallery 30: Textile Making, Occupations & Costumes

Colonial America Tour information 1, 2

• • Early American textile pattern article from Sara Oka

  • Making Cloth

  • Clothing

  • Colonial America Kids Book

  • Spinning

  • Paul Revere information

  • Attucks Teapot Information

  • Phyllis Wheatley Information

  • African Free School Information

Fireplace Room: Travel & Village Life

• • Mayflower info and New England house article

  • House labels

  • Indians of North America 1, 2

    • Wampanoag information Link 2 Link 3 Link 4

  • Porcupine Quill baskets

Gallery 22: Karen Hampton: Understanding slavery

• • Slave Ship Information Link 1

  • Triangle Trade map

    • Brookes ship (to compare to Mayflower)

Gallery 13: landscape, portraits & furniture

• • HAA Selected Works American Art p 210-225

    • Gilbert Stuart to Stuart Davis at HAA, Apollo Magazine

  • HMA Tall Clock & Tambour Secretary

  • William Guy Wall, Catskill Mountains

    • You Tube Video documentary about the Hotel at Cauterskill Falls in the Catskill Mountains

  • Regis Gignoux, View Near Elizabethtown

• Moran; Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone*

Kinau Courtyard: Colonial Games

• Games + Native American Game of Staves

TIPS: Snacks should be eaten AFTER the children play games to keep the games clean.

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Gallery 4: Portraits & understanding the Northern Colonial economy Note: Replaced by Karen Hampton Exhibit for 2016-2017 School Year

• • Northern Slavery Information Link 1 Link 2 Link 3 Link 4 Link 5 Link 6

    • Slavery in Medford (home of Gov. John Brooks)

    • Royall House and slave house in Medford, MA

  • Slave clothing

  • Gilbert Stuart, Governor John Brooks

  • John Singleton Copley, Nathaniel Allen

Gallery 4 Activity - small portraits of Grandma, Nathanial and Gov. Brooks (not attached)

Indentured servants occupations

Old Tour guides and activities