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Speakers 2009
F. Daniel Larkin, a native of Rome, New York, holds a Ph.D. in American history and currently is Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs at State University of New York College at Oneonta. Dr. Larkin also holds the academic rank of SUNY Distinguished Service Professor, a SUNY-wide rank bestowed by the SUNY Board of Trustees. He has authored four books on the history of transportation technology. Among those books is a biography of John B. Jervis (Iowa State University Press), a leading 19th century civil and mechanical engineer who was involved with construction of several man-made waterways including the Erie Canal. Another is a history of New York State canals (Purple Mountain Press). He edited The Erie Canal: New York’s Gift to the Nation (Cobblestone Publishing Company) and has written several articles on New York’s artificial waterways.
Phil Lord holds a BA and a MA from SUNY Albany (1966/68). He directed and participated in numerous archeological projects and taught in both NYS and Arizona between 1968 and 1973. He worked in archeological and historical research and management programs at the NY State Museum from 1973 until his retirement in 2002. The websites he created on the early canals and historic sites are still used on the NYS Museum website. He has been teaching part time (Sociology) at Hudson Valley Community College since 2000.
Elizabeth Covart holds a BA in History from Penn State University (2003), a MA in History from the University of California Davis (2008) and advanced to her PH.D. candidacy in June 2007. She has received numerous awards and research fellowships, presented papers at numerous conferences, and is currently a teaching adjunct at Hudson Valley Community College.
David Cornelius holds a BA from Empire State College with a concentration in Colonial & Native American History. He lectures widely on the history and culture of the Native American and is a Native Genealogy Specialist.
Kathryn L. Weller has a Masters Degree in Museum Studies from the Cooperstown Graduate Program (2004) and a BA in Historic Preservation from Mary Washington College (2001). She has done graduate work in both Education and Pubic History and is the Curator of Collections and Exhibits Coordinator at the Schenectady County Historical Society in Schenectady. Her paper presentation will be based on her Master’s Thesis, “From Church to Shrine: The Evolution of the Mohawk Valley’s Palatine Churches”
Ronald J. Burch holds a MA in History Museum Studies (Cooperstown Graduate Program, 1982) and a MA in U.S. History (Duke University, 1970), He earned a BA cum laude from University of Memphis. He has been Curator of Art and Architecture at the New York State Museum, Albany, NY (Senior Historian, G-22) since 1983. He has served on the boards of the Fort Plain Museum, Palatine Settlement Society, and Montgomery County Historical Society, and he is a founding member of the 18th century musical quartet Liaisons Pleasantes.
Tricia K. Shaw holds a M.A. in Public History from State University of New York at Albany(1996) and a BA in Comparative Cultural Studies from Trinity College of Vermont (1993). She has held positions as a Records Management Consultant and Site Interpreter. She is currently Education Coordinator for Schoharie Crossing State Historic Site (NYS Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation, Fort Hunter, NY) where she is responsible for all educational programming, special events and outreach. She also holds the office of President, for the Mohawk Valley Museum Consortium.
G. William Beardslee is an independent scholar with a M.A. in American Colonial History. He taught for several years at the University of Northern Colorado and holds a "full time job" as a lawyer in Colorado. His family has owned a farm in Otsego County, NY since the 1790's where he spends his summers. He has authored numerous historical articles in several journals and writes a weekly historical column in a Norwich, NY newspaper. His article about the "New Berlin to Bridgewater Plank Road" constructed to connect the Unadilla and Mohawk Valleys was published in the New York Archives magazine.
Peter Betz was an English major at the University of Vermont with American History/Sociology minor (1965) and he holds a graduate degree from SUNY Albany School of Library Science (1966). He was Curator, K R Dorn Regional History Collection, at Fulton Montgomery Community College and has served as a board member for the FMCC Foundation, Montgomery Co. Historical Society, NRA, and Palatine Settlement Society. He has been Fulton County Historian since 2005, publishing and lecturing extensively. He has studied the period 1890-1925 in depth, building and selling collections of guns, phonographs, cameras, even antique typewriters from those formative decades. As co-producer of the "Foothills Folks" cable TV country music show for five years and a songwriter in Northeast Country Music Association, he has also written on the correlation between contemporary popular song and social customs.
Paul G. Schneider Jr. is an independent historian specializing in 19th century American history with particular interest in manufacturing and industrial development in the eastern United States. In 2008 he delivered the O'Connor Lecture for the Waterford Historical Museum and Cultural Center on "Seduced by Adventure: A 19th Century Waterford Story," the title of an exhibit he researched, curated, wrote and designed in 2008 for the same institution. He earned his MA in History Museum Training from the Cooperstown Graduate Program, State University College of Oneonta and his BA in American History with departmental honors from Hiram College, Hiram, Ohio. From 1972-2000 he worked for the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation, Bureau of Historic Sites.
David Manthey has extensively researched the life and work of eighteenth century bateaux boatmen on the Mohawk River. He is a reenactor with the French & Indian War period Schuyler’s Provincials and a member of the Albany County Militia, Second Company, a Revolutionary War unit. He regularly mans the oars of a replica bateau currently stationed at the Mabee Farm Historic Site in Rotterdam Junction and has lectured extensively on his research into the life of the boatmen.
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