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Maine Antique Digest, April 2015 7-A
opportunity for CCADA mem-
bers, is also open to other mem-
bers of the antiques community
and the public at large who wish
to gain additional knowledge
on selected topics of interest.
This year, the four topics, and
the experts presenting them, are
“Hooked Rugs—An Enduring
Art Form” by Laura McCarthy,
a dealer in American country
antiques and textiles, Bayberry
Antiques, Rockland, Massachu-
setts; “How to Recognize, Col-
lect, and Value Rare Books” by
James Visbeck, a dealer in used
and rare books, Isaiah Thomas
Books, Cotuit, Massachusetts;
“Watching the Weather—His-
tory of Weather Instruments”
by Parke Madden, an antiques
dealer for over 50 years dealing
in quality Americana, Paul Mad-
den Antiques, Sandwich, Massa-
chusetts; and “Welcome to the
Wonderful World of Decoys” by
Bill Bourne, assistant vice pres-
ident, Eldred’s Auction Gallery,
Americana and maritime arts de-
partments.
The cost for the seminar is $25
and includes morning coffee and
lunch, provided by the Riverway
Lobster House. Advanced reg-
istration is required by April 10
and can be done by calling the
Cultural Center at (508) 394-
7100, or by mailing a check
payable to CCADA to Barbara
Adams, 289 Old Main Street, S.
Yarmouth, MA 02664. For addi-
tional information, contact Bar-
bara Adams at (508) 760-3290.
GREENWICH ANTIQUES
SOCIETY
On Monday, April 6, at 1:15
p.m., the Greenwich Antiques
Society presents “Historic Hous-
es in the Hudson River Valley:
Colonial and Federal Era Archi-
tecture and Daily Life,” a lecture
by Kathleen Eagen Johnson, at
the Bruce Museum in Green-
wich, Connecticut. Refresh-
ments will follow the lecture.
This illustrated lecture will
draw back the curtain to view
early NewYorkers at home. How
did New Yorkers’ lifestyles, arts,
and design reflect the ideals and
customs of a colony that was
first Dutch, then English, and
later a “fully America” state
with the ratification of the Unit-
ed States Constitution in 1788?
How did the inhabitants of New
Netherland and later New York
construct, arrange, and decorate
their homes and organize their
households? How did the geog-
raphy and settlement patterns
shape their social practices and
material world? Why were the
customs and surroundings of
early New Yorkers at times quite
different from those of their New
England neighbors?
Johnson is a freelance mu-
seum consultant, lecturer, and
writer at HistoryConsulting.
com. Her book, The Hudson
Fulton Celebration: New York’s
River Festival of 1909 and the
Making of a Metropolis, won the
New York City Book Award for
History in 2009-10.
Admission for nonmembers
of the Greenwich Antiques
WHITE IRONSTONE
CHINAASSOCIATION
The 21st annual convention of
the White Ironstone China As-
sociation (WICA) will be held
April 23-26 at the Crowne Plaza
Hotel in Dayton, Ohio. WICA is
a national organization of peo-
ple who buy, sell, and search for
white ironstone, and only white.
The weekend will feature lec-
tures, displays, a flea market, an
auction banquet and other meals,
a raffle, show and tell, and sev-
eral local venues for purchasing
this versatile pottery. This year
the Sunday Sale & Show will be
open to the public from 9 to 11
a.m. on April 26 with no admis-
sion charge.
See the (www.
whiteironstonechina.com) for
more information. For a year’s
membership for two people at
one address, please send a check
for $40 payable to WICA, Inc.
and remit to WICA c/o Chuck
Ulmann, 1320 Ashbridge Road,
West Chester, PA 19380.
HISTORICAL SOCIETY
OF EARLYAMERICAN
DECORATION
The Historical Society of Early
American Decoration (HSEAD)
American art exhibition, a cele-
bration of early American dec-
orative arts, will be held April
17-19 in Lancaster, Pennsylva-
nia. The Wm. Penn Chapter of
HSEAD is hosting this annual
event, which will include over
100 pieces of finely decorated
items common to fashionable
early American homes in the
18th and 19th centuries.
HSEAD invites the public,
free of charge, to visit the ex-
hibition room where members’
juried pieces, creative works, an-
tiques, and reproductions will be
showcased in various styles such
as traditional country painting,
bronze powder stenciling, free-
hand bronze painting, gold leaf,
reverse glass painting, Victori-
an flower painting, Pontypool,
painted clock dials, and theorems.
Also present will be vendors of
materials related to the organiza-
tion’s craft disciplines, as well as
publications, patterns, and DVDs
produced by HSEAD. Attend-
ees may win one of the beautiful
handcrafted items offered for raf-
fle, and HSEAD will have a spe-
cial exhibition of important clock
dials painted by award-winning
Carol Buonato.
The exhibition is free and
open to the public on Friday,
April 17, from 3 p.m. to 11 p.m.;
Saturday, April 18, from 9 a.m.
to 11 p.m., and Sunday, April 19,
from 9 a.m. till noon.
Tours of Rock Ford Planta-
tion, the Lancaster County His-
torical Society, and Wheatland,
home of the 15th president of
the United States, are planned
for April 18. Tour ticket includes
bus and entrance fee, with lunch
cost separate. For costs and in-
formation, please visit the Web
site ).
Lee Kogan, curator emeritus of
the American Folk Art Museum,
BRILLIANT WEEKEND
AT CORNING
A special glass show and sale
will be held in the auditorium of
the Corning Museum of Glass,
April 25-26, in Corning, New
York. Show hours are 10 a.m.
to 5 p.m., April 25, and 10 a.m.
to 3 p.m., April 26. The event is
hosted by the Corning Museum
of Glass and presented by the
Eastern Lakes and Mid-Atlantic
chapters of the American Cut
Glass Association (ACGA). Ad-
mission is free with museum ad-
mission or $5 at the auditorium
door. Glass dealers from across
the United States will be exhib-
iting. The presentation emphasis
will be on American Brilliant
Period cut and engraved glass,
but also Steuben, American art
glass, and English and European
art and engraved glass. This year
we have included early Ameri-
can cut glass and engraved glass
to broaden glass exposure and
entice the public with even more
varied offerings.
Last year, the special preshow
activity hosted by the Rakow Re-
search Library was delightfully
well received. Consequently, for
Brilliant Weekend at Corning at-
tendees this year, an informative
workshop will be held on Friday
afternoon at 2:00 p.m. The event,
coordinated by the ACGA Re-
search Committee, will be pre-
sented by Gail Bardhan and Re-
becca Hopman from the Rakow
Library. This year’s workshop
is “Beyond Books: Exploring
Ephemera in the Rakow Re-
search Library.” The workshop
will feature information on glass-
house money, special advertising,
etc. RSVPs are welcome but not
required, and you may register by
e-mail at > or
by calling the reference desk at
(607) 438-5399.
American cut and engraved
glass catalog reprints and re-
search materials will be avail-
able for sale. There will be a spe-
cial setting where replacement
stoppers can be bought or traded.
On Saturday there will be a
dinner at the Radisson Hotel for
a cost of $38 with advance reser-
vations and choice of entrée.
Additional information about
the weekend can be obtained
on the ACGA Web site (www.
cutglass.org) and the Corning
Museum Web site .
org), or by contacting the show
chairman, Harry Parker, at (703)
425-5574. Visitors may take
advantage of a Radisson Hotel
Corning special rate: standard
room $108, premium room $118,
plus tax. Reservations need to
be made early; call (607) 962-
5000 and use the promo code
BWKND. This rate is available
only until April 1, 2015.
DECORATIVE ARTS OF
THE CAROLINAAND
GEORGIA LOW COUNTRY
TheMuseumof EarlySouthern
Decorative Arts (MESDA) and
the University of Virginia (UVA)
announce the 2015 MESDA
Summer Institute in Southern
Material Culture and Decorative
Arts. The 2015 summer insti-
tute will take place from June
28 to July 24 at MESDA, which
is located in Old Salem Muse-
ums & Gardens at the Frank L.
PROGRAM IN NEW
ENGLAND STUDIES
Historic New England will
present its Program in New
England Studies, an intensive
week-long exploration of New
England, from June 15 to June
20. The Program in New Eng-
land Studies includes lectures by
noted curators and architectural
historians, workshops, behind-
the-scenes tours, and special ac-
cess to historic house museums
and collections. The program
offers a broad approach to teach-
ing the history of New England
culture through artifacts and
architecture, starting with the
17th-century Massachusetts Bay
style through the Federal and
Georgian eras, to Gothic Revival
and the Colonial Revival.
The program will feature pres-
entations by Nancy Carlisle,
senior curator of collections,
Historic New England; Cary
Carson, retired vice president,
Colonial Williamsburg Foun-
dation; Lorna Condon, senior
curator of library and archives,
Historic New England; Joseph
Cornish, supervising preserva-
tion services manager, Historic
New England; Claire Dempsey,
associate professor of Ameri-
can and New England Studies,
Boston University; J. Ritchie
Garrison, director, Winterthur
Program in American Material
Culture; James L. Garvin, retired
state architectural historian, New
Hampshire Division of Histori-
cal Resources; Ben Haavik, team
leader for property care, Historic
New England; Brock Jobe, pro-
fessor of decorative arts, Winter-
thur Program in American Ma-
terial Culture; Laura Johnson,
associate curator, Historic New
England; Dean Lahikainen, the
Carolyn and Peter Lynch Cura-
tor of American Decorative Art,
Peabody Essex Museum; Lau-
rie Masciandaro, site manager
for Roseland Cottage, Historic
New England; David G. Milne,
curator, Dennis Severs’ House;
Kevin Murphy, professor and
chair of History of Art, Vander-
bilt University; Robert Mussey,
independent conservator; Jane
C. Nylander, president emerita,
Historic New England; Richard
C. Nylander, curator emeritus,
Historic New England; Pam Pe-
terson, executive director, Mar-
blehead Museum and Historical
Society; Gerald W. R. Ward, sen-
ior consulting curator and the
Katharine Lane Weems Senior
Curator Emeritus, Museum of
Fine Arts, Boston; Gail Usher
White, education program coor-
dinator, Historic New England;
and Richard Guy Wilson, chair,
Department of Architectural
History, University of Virginia.
Participants will travel
throughout New England for
tours and receptions at historic
properties, participate in work-
shops, and spend time with cura-
tors examining items from His-
toric New England’s wide-rang-
ing collection; visit private
homes and collections; learn
about a groundbreaking ap-
proach to interpreting 18th- and
19th-century domestic life at the
Dennis Severs’ House in Lon-
don, England; and enjoy a cham-
pagne reception on the terrace of
Beauport, the Sleeper-McCann
House on Gloucester Harbor.
The $1550 fee includes all lec-
tures, admissions, guided tours,
transportation to and from spe-
cial visits and excursions, daily
breakfast and lunch, scheduled
evening receptions, and various
service charges. Scholarships
are available to mid-career mu-
seum professionals and graduate
students in the fields of archi-
tecture, decorative arts, material
culture, or public history. Candi-
dates from diverse cultural back-
grounds are encouraged to apply.
Enrollment is limited to 25
participants. For a complete itin-
erary and registration informa-
(617) 994-6629.
will lecture on Friday night at
the banquet. Advanced registra-
tion and cost of dinner may be
found on line. Lisa Minardi will
speak on the collection of Win-
terthur Museum and Gardens on
Sunday morning. A registration
fee applies for this lecture.
HSEAD is a nonprofit organ-
ization devoted to the research
and preservation of historically
authentic early American dec-
oration and the perpetuation of
the techniques used by artisans
of these arts in 19th-century
America. Members are encour-
aged to work from originals and
to reproduce this art form as
taught by the society’s certified
teachers and master craftsmen.
For more information or to
become an associate member
of HSEAD, visit the Web site
).
Society is $20. Space is limited.
Reservations are required for
members and guests by March
30. For reservations and infor-
(203) 322-2967.
Horton Museum Center, 924
South Main Street, Winston-Sa-
lem, North Carolina.
The MESDA Summer Insti-
tute provides participants the
opportunity to analyze and in-
vestigate the material culture
and decorative arts of the early
South. Each summer the insti-
tute focuses on one region of the
early South, rotating its concen-
tration from the Chesapeake to
the Carolina Low Country to the
southern backcountry.
The 2015 summer institute
will emphasize the Carolina and
Georgia Low Country, a region
of tremendous cultural diversity
that included America’s wealthi-
est landholders and merchants as
well as the huge enslaved work
force upon which that society
depended. Students study the re-
gion’s economic, social, and cul-
tural history through a multidis-
ciplinary approach that includes
current methods of research,
interpretation, preservation, and
analysis of material culture. The
curriculum includes fieldwork in
the Carolina and Georgia Low
Country, including Charleston,
South Carolina, Savannah and
St. Mary’s, Georgia, and other
major regional sites.
The UVA visiting scholar for
the 2015 summer institute is Dr.
Carroll Van West, professor of
history and director of the Cen-
ter for Historic Preservation at
Middle Tennessee State Univer-
sity. In addition to Dr. West, the
faculty is composed of members
of the staffs of MESDA and Old
Salem Museums & Gardens, the
UVA faculty, and several guest
lecturers.
Three hours of graduate cred-
it are awarded through UVA’s
graduate program in the History
of Art and Architecture.
Graduate students in the fields
of American studies, material
culture, decorative arts and mu-
seum studies, historic preserva-
tion, architectural history, and
public history, and professionals
in the museum, education, or
related fields are encouraged to
apply. The deadline for applica-
tions is April 20.
For information or an applica-
tion form, contact Sally Gant, di-
rector of education, Museum of
Early Southern Decorative Arts,
by e-mailing her at
salem.org> or calling (336) 721-
7361. Information is also avail-
able on line ).
WALLACE NUTTING
COLLECTORS CLUB
CONVENTION
The Wallace Nutting Collec-
tors Club annual convention will
be held May 15 and 16 at the
Hilton Garden Inn in Glaston-
bury, Connecticut. The conven-
tion is a gathering spot for any-
one interested in collecting Wal-
lace Nutting photos, furniture, or
hand-colored photos by other
photographers.
Friday afternoon begins with
the annual Wallace Nutting
auction, preview at 12 p.m. and
auction beginning at 2 p.m. This