Other Conference Highlights

Town Square

A showcase for members’ work and relevant vendors will open on Wednesday evening and continue through Friday morning. You will have ample time to visit all tables, talk with proprietors, make purchases, and become inspired by all the different ways that personal histories can be preserved. Vendors and members interested in selling their products may rent a table.

Community Forum

A panel discussion on Saturday afternoon will bring together three APH members with three members of the Baltimore business community to engage in a discussion of the strengths, weaknesses, applications, and business opportunities of the growing industry of personal history.

“Let’s Get Personal”

Informal evening discussion sessions will be moderated by APH members or conference presenters with expertise in a particular aspect of the personal history profession or in general business. Some topics have already been planned; others will arise spontaneously as you and your colleagues identify topics you’d like to discuss. Look for “Let’s Get Personal” sessions on these topics:
• Intellectual property issues
• Family and work issues
• Word processing and publishing software
• The Veterans History Project
• Book pricing
• Q&A with our historian in residence, James Walsh
• Marketing for Introverts
• Multimedia
• Q&A on resources for the personal historian

Media Share

Evening programs in which videographers and multimedia specialists show work they have produced. Media Share will allow personal historians to appreciate and be awed by the products of fellow members.

Tales of the Heart

An APH tradition on Sunday morning will bring laughter and tears and a sense of connection as APH members share stories from their own personal histories, their families,, or stories they’ve heard in their work, reminding us all of the meaning and value of what we do.

Business Meeting

Members will discuss important issues critical to the long-term direction of APH.

10th Year Anniversary Celebration & Recognition of Our Visionary Leaders

A special evening of celebration and recognition will commemorate APH’s 10th anniversary. Live entertainment featuring special guests assures a fun evening. Greet APH’s visionaries and relive the story of a decade of growth.