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Created on 2007-12-23 23:05:51 (#14520298), last updated 2009-04-26
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| Name: | mpbarker |
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| Website: | M.P. Barker |
I'm a time traveler—well, actually an archivist and historian, which amounts to the same thing. I got a firsthand taste (sometimes literally!) of nineteenth-century New England rural life when I was a costumed interpreter at Old Sturbridge Village. There I milked cows, mucked out barns, and found inspiration for my historical novel, A Difficult Boy (coming from Holiday House in April, 2008). Now working as an archivist, I visit a different time and place with every diary, letter, and photograph I catalogs. I'm also a freelance historical consultant and I've written exhibit text, scripts for historical dramatizations, nominations to the National Register of Historic Places, fundraising materials, and planning studies.
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Schools:
St. Joan of Arc-St. George School - Chicopee, MA (1965 - 1973)Cathedral High School - Springfield, MA (1973 - 1977)
Elms College - Chicopee, MA (1977 - 1981)
University of Vermont - Burlington, VT (1983 - 1985)
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