Posted on July 7, 2008 by Max van Balgooy
I’m in England for the Attingham Summer School but arrived a day early to get a head start on overcoming jet lag and to visit the new “Benjamin Franklin House “–the only place in world where Franklin lived that still survives (that’s right, all his houses in the US are gone–how’s that for a preservation [...]
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Posted on July 2, 2008 by Max van Balgooy
This month I’ll be joining a group of fifty professionals from historic sites and museums from around the world in the Attingham Summer School. For three weeks we’ll be studying and discussing the preservation and interpretation of the English country house (including collections and landscapes) from the 13th century to the present day with field [...]
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Posted on July 1, 2008 by Stephen Neuhauser
Several events are taking place at National Trust Historic Sites to celebrate the Fourth of July.The East Side Tenement Museum, located on New York City’s Manhattan Island is hosting tours of their historic tenement building from 11:00 am to 4:30pm on July 4, 2008. The Lower East Side Tenement Museum preserves and interprets an historic [...]
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Posted on June 16, 2008 by Max van Balgooy
Terry Pitts, Executive Director at the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art (which also operates the Grant Wood Studio, a member of the Historic Artist Home and Studio program of the National Trust) provided the following update via Lisa Stone at the Roger Brown Studio (another member of HAHS):
“The Grant Wood Studio is fine and the [...]
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Posted on June 13, 2008 by Max van Balgooy
This morning we received an update from Jim Kern, Executive Director of Brucemore, a National Trust Historic Site in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Brucemore is soggy but open to the public as a safe haven and a place for quiet reflection for local residents overwhelmed by the massive flooding in their community.
The flood is [...]
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