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Brenda Ervin (email to update your profile)
Profile last updated: 09/21/06
 
Address: P.O. Box 384, Swartz Creek, MI 48473
County: Genesee
Phone (w): 810-655-6643
Phone (h): -
Fax: 810-655-8271

E-mail: barndoorpub@intouchmi.com

 
Academic Affiliation: -
Non-academic affiliation: National Federation of Press Women, Women's National Book Association-Detroit Chapter, Michigan Business Women-University of Michigan, Michigan Press Women's Communicator of Achievement for 2006
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Specialization areas: Natural History/Heritage; Oral History; Period Studies: 1800-2000; Conservation/Cultural Heritage; Cultural Geography; Perservation; Womens Studies; History: Farm Family Stories, Barn Stories, Barn Builder's & Preservationist Stories; Other: Women's Studies relative to farm, barn history such as Mary Bryant Mayo, Willah Weddon; and Photography of Michigan's Barns, Farms, and Farm Families, those relative to barn history, such as Doug Tyler, Barn Artist and Country Artist, Harlan Howard
Implementing projects as: Presenter/Panelist
Project types: Live Events Exhibitions, School Projects
Areas willing to participate: -
 

Past experience: Michigan Barn and Farm Family Preservationist for 20 years chronicling hundreds of stories of Michigan's agricultural heritage from 1800-2006, documenting research in published pictorial books and color photographs. History: Farm Family Stories, Barn Stories, Barn Builder's & Preservationist Stories. Women's Studies relative to Michigan's pioneering farm heritage, including Calhoun County Michigan Women's Hall of Fame's Mary Bryant Mayo. Award-winning author and journalist Willah Weddon Oakland County farm family. Photography of Michigan's Barns, Farms, and Farm Families. Specilized knowledge in mulitple areas of Michigan's agricultural heritage including, Barn Abstract Artist, Doug Tyler, and others associated with Michigan's barn history including Legendary Country Artist Harlan Howard.

Standish Historical Museum, Frankenmuth Lecture at Fisher Hall, PBS Michigan Magazine 

 
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