Date: Fri 18-Sep-1998

Publication: Ant

Author: CAROLL

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Deerfield

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Historic Deerfield Features Pulitzer Prize Winning Historian As Keynote

Speaker At Flynt Center Opening

DEERFIELD, MASS. -- Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, James Duncan Phillips professor of

early American history and professor of women's studies at Harvard University,

will deliver the keynote address at the celebratory dedication of Historic

Deerfield's new Flynt Center of Early New England Life on September 26.

The 11 am program, on the grounds of the center behind the Dwight House museum

in the south end of the village of Deerfield, is open to the public. Following

the ceremony, the center will be open for touring from noon to 3 pm.

Ulrich was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for history in 1991 for her book A

Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard Based on her Diary, 1785-1812. The

book was made into a highly acclaimed film in 1993. A graduate of the

University of Utah with a doctorate in history from the University of New

Hampshire, Ulrich was a member of the history faculty at UNH from 1980 until

her appointment to Harvard University in 1995.

A consultant to many museums and historical societies, Ulrich is the recipient

of two National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowships and of a MacArthur

Fellowship.

The dedication of the center will include remarks by the building's architect,

C. Anthony Junker, of the Philadelphia firm of Ueland Junker McCauley

Nicholson; Mary Maples Dunn, vice-president of the Historic Deerfield board of

trustees, former president of Smith College and now director of the

Schlesinger Library at Radcliffe College; and Donald R. Friary, executive

director and secretary of Historic Deerfield.

Henry N. Flynt, Jr, chairman of the board of trustees, and several members of

his family, will cut the ribbon officially opening the building that is named

for them and for Henry and Helen Flynt, founders and patrons of Historic

Deerfield.