The mummy project is currently my most active endeavor, both in doing research and in presenting the fruits of my labors.  The page proofs for the mummy book have gone back to McFarland, and IS NOW OUT!!!  Not bad marketing, a mummy book out at Halloween. The title is "Mummies in Nineteenth Century America; Ancient Egyptian as Artifacts." (Follow the MUMMYBOOK link to see publication information, etc.) The mummy database at this moment, has 1249 entries in it  (representing at least 550 individuals) and is growing. We are hoping to mount portions of this on Jim Deem's "Mummytombs" website within the next year.  And I am consulting on a collaborative critical history of "mummy literature" from the 17th century through 1900  "The Mummy Speaks" with Jasmine Day and Robert Singerman, David Rawson and others. I hope also to finish this year (with Robert Singerman)  the bibliography of paper mills and papermaking  which is now over 900 pages but finally winding down! I continue to work on a microhistory of two ship captains, Larkin Turner and Larkin Thorndike Lee, each of whom brought a mummy to America in 1824. Part of the microhistory is the historically accurate  recreation of a 19th century ship captain's house in 1:12 scale, based on estate inventories and wills. For pictures of the Captain Ober Larken house, or my other miniatures projects, please click on the link to the Miniatures page.

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	Associations Archaeological Institute of America American Library Association (RBMS division and Association of College and Research Libraries) American Mensa, Ltd. American Research Center in Egypt--Boston Chapter. Association for the Study of Travel in the Ancient Near East Chief Librarian, Republic of Boon Island Historic New England Intertel Museum of Fine Arts, Boston National Rifle Association New England Historical Association Northeast Popular Culture Association Smithsonian Associate Society for Creative Anachronism Society for Historic Preservation Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities Tower Hill Botanic Garden       Worcester Area Cooperating Libraries       Worcester Art Museum       Worcester Historical Museum
	RECENT PAPERS, INTERVIEWS AND PUBLICATIONS 2009—“Mummies in Nineteenth Century America.”—lecture, PowerPoint presentation and book signing, Scarefest, Worcester Polutechnic Institute, 30 October 2009. 2009—Mummies in Nineteeth Century America; Ancient Egyptians as Artifacts (McFarland, c. 2009) 2009—“Less fun curling up with a Kindle.”—award winning “letter of the week” in the Telegram and Gazette (Worcester, Mass.) 20 September 2009. 2009—“I. Augustus Stanwood Had a Papermill in Maine.”—lectures and PowerPoint presentations at the Maine Heritage & Papermaking Museum, in conjunction with History Days at Livermore, Maine, 22 and 23 May 2009. 2009—“Mummies; The Eternal Fascination.”—lecture and PowerPoint presentation at the Beaman Memorial Library, West Boylston, Mass. 5 March 2009. 2008--"Admission Twenty-Five Cents--Children Half-Price; Exhibiting Egyptian Mummies in Nineteenth Century America",  in Life on the Street and Commons, 1600 to the Present  (Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife Annual Proceedings 2005), pp. 124-141. 2008—“Mummies, Mummies Everywhere; Or, Just Call Me Indiana Wolfe”—lecture and powerpoint presentation for the Wheeler Family Association, 17 August 2008. 2008—“Mummies, Mummies Everywhere; Or, Just Call Me Indiana Wolfe”—lecture and powerpoint presentation at the American Antiquarian Society, 25 July 2008. 2007—“Heritage Expert Analyzes Exhibition of Tutankhamun’s Mummy.”—interview with Joyce Zhu, 11 Nov. 2007 in Shanghai Evening Post. 2007—“What Shall We Do Today, My Dear? Popular Entertainment in Victorian America.”--article in The Readex Report 2:4 (Winter 2007) 2007—“Mummy Mania in 19th century New England: Putting the Middlebury Mummy in Context.”—lecture and PowerPoint presentation at Henry Sheldon Museum, Middlebury, Vt., 27 Oct. 2007. 2007—“Mummy-Mania!”—talk , PowerPoint presentation and activities for children at Henry Sheldon Museum, Middlebury, Vt., 27 Oct. 2007. 2007—“Curry Chicken Peanut Soup”—honorable mention in the 2007 recipe contest, The Old Farmer’s almanac … 2008 , p. 172. 2007—“Wood’s Museum Connection to the Niagara Falls Mummy.”—in Reader’s Forum, KMT 18:2 (Summer 2007), 6-7. 2007—“Mummymania in Victorian America.”—lecture and PowerPoint presentation given 20 June 2007 before Prof. David’s Rawson’s  American History survey class at Anna Maria College, Paxton, Mass. 2007—“The Great Mummy Mystery and the Paper Industry.”—paper read at the Washburn Humanities Seminar, Norlands, Livermore, Me., 16 June 2007. 2007—“Blaming the Mummies; Miasma and Pestilence in Late Nineteenth-Century New England Papermaking towns.”—Paper and PowerPoint presentation as part of the panel “DISEASE IN HISTORY--Law, Health and the City” at the New England Historical            Association Conference, Southern New Hampshire University, 5 May, 2007. 2007—“Searching Virginia History at the American Antiquarian Society.”—Poster and PowerPoint demonstration at the Second Virginia Forum, State Library of Virginia, 13 April 2007.   For a list of papers, presentations, projects and exhibitions before 2007, please contact me and I will send you a copy of my very long vita.
	Volunteer Activities My husband and I volunteer at NEADY Cats/Cats in Need (Princeton, Mass.), where we do socialization of abandoned, newborn and feral cats in a no-kill shelter environment. Two of our current furry cat children were NEADY kittens. To see pictures of our four-footed kits, please click on the Katzengesicht page. To learn more about NEADY Cats, please click on the NEADY Cats link.

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