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Distinguished Lecture: The Shakers and the Andrewses: Partners in Preservation

January 28, 2017 @ 11:00 am - 12:30 pm

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Date:
January 28, 2017
Time:
11:00 am - 12:30 pm
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Venue

Mercer Museum
84 S Pine St, Doylestown, PA 18901 United States
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Phone:
215-345-0210

Christian Goodwillie, curator of the traveling exhibit, Gather Up the Fragments: The Andrews Shaker Collection, shares his extensive knowledge of both the Shakers and the collection formed by Faith and Edward Deming Andrews. In this illustrated lecture, Goodwillie highlights the triumphs and controversies that attended the Andrews’ earnest, and sometimes aggressive, efforts to preserve Shaker culture on the broadest possible scale.  Goodwillie, formerly Curator of Collections at Hancock Shaker Village, is currently Director/Curator of Special Collections at Hamilton College in Clinton, New York.  Included with museum admission.

Photo of Gather Up the Fragments Exhibit Curator, Christian Goodwillie.

ROLLO'S FACTS

“Lucy” the horse was part of the work crew that built both Fonthill and the Mercer Museum. She hoisted the loads of mixed concrete up to workers.
Rollo's Fact 5

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