American Swedish Historical Museum, Swedish Colonial Society, and the McNeil Center for Early American Studies, et al.
The 10th Annual New Sweden History Conference
Times: 9:00 a.m. - 1:40 p.m.
Place: Bartram's Garden, 54th and Lindbergh Streets, Philadelphia
Registration (fee) through the American Swedish Historical Museum
Morning Presentations, 9:45 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.:
Joel T. Fry, curator, Bartram's Garden,
"European Medical Theory and Practice of the 17th and 18th Centuries"
Cara Lee Blume, former cultural heritage program manager, Delaware Division of Parks and Recreation,
" 'Splendid and Miraculous Medicines': Healing Practices of the Lenape People"
Peter R. Christoph, senior editor of the documentary series, New York Historical Manuscripts,
"The Barber-Surgeons of New Netherland--and, Probably, New Sweden."
Afternoon Presentation, 1:00 - 1:40 p.m.:
Karen M. Reeds, independent historian of science and medicine,
"'This remedy universally extolled': Pehr Kalm on New Medicines for New Sweden"
Optional tour of Bartram's Garden with Joel Fry, emphasizing medicinal plants and their uses.
Conference partners: American Swedish Historical Museum, Swedish Colonial Society, and the McNeil Center for Early American Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, all of Philadelphia; the New Sweden Centre, Wilmington; and Trinity Episcopal (Old Swedes') Church, Swedesboro, New Jersey. The conference is supported by a generous grant from the Barbro
Osher Pro Suecia Foundation.