2009 Guide Training Course

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Learn Your City, Read Your City, Teach Your City! Become a Historic Milwaukee Guide and do something important for our city. Want to know the stories behind the street names? Milwaukee´s built environment has thousands of tales to tell. Learn about Milwaukee´s unique history from leading local scholars in eight 3-hour classes. You will be fully immersed in Milwaukee's architecture, preservation and language. Once you´ve taken these classes, you can put your newfound knowledge to work for a good cause by volunteering for Historic Milwaukee´s Guided Tour program. Or, just impress your friends! The fee for this class is $250 and includes many extras. In addition to eight instructor-led classes and a curriculum not available anywhere else, you'll get a copy of What Style is it? A Guide to American Architecture, published by the National Trust for Historic Preservation, and a one-year Historic Milwaukee Membership. You membership includes reduced rates for HMI events, free walking tour privileges and free admission to A View of Our City in Four Acts, HMI's Panel Discussion Series beginning on January 29, 2009 (free benefits totalling $130 in value). The course fee of $250 can be paid all at once or in two installments of $125 each, due before the first day of classes. When you register, you will be mailed a detailed course schedule along with an application form to help us get to know you. This year classes will be held in MSOE's Grohmann Museum. A tour of MSOE's new (doors opened in 2007) museum housing the expansive "Man at Work" collection will be provided and books on the museum and collection made available for purchase. Classes are every Saturday from 1-4 PM beginning February 14, 2009 (A unique Christmas or Valentine´s Day gift!). Lecturers include: Paul Jakubovich, Preservation Planner at the Milwaukee Department of City Development -Milwaukee Architectural History and the construction of its built environment. John Gurda, Milwaukee-born writer, historian and author of 18 books including The Making of Milwaukee. He has been studying his hometown since 1972. -Experience Milwaukee´s History Annemarie Sawkins, Ph.D.; Associate Curator of the Haggerty Museum of Art since 1999; art and architectural historian; and Adjunct Professor of History at Marquette. A graduate of the HMI Guide Training Course of 1997, Annemarie has lead school groups on tours of the downtown area and co-directed pre-Civil War architecture tours in Milwaukee. -American Architecture: An Evolution Kathy Kean, Winner of the Preserve America History Teacher of the Year Award, founding member of HMI and HMI Board member. -"Three Original Settlements" Bus Tour and "How to Give a Good Tour" Nancy Hubbard, Ph.D.; Associate Professor, Department of Architecture at UW-Milwaukee; author and Preservation Consultant -The Language and Resources of Historic Preservation at State and Local Levels