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SUMMARY:LECTURE | Civic Stitches: Early American Needlework and National Identity 
DESCRIPTION:LECTURE | Civic Stitches: Early American Needlework and National Identity  with Emily Whitted\, Guest-Curator\, American Girlhood: Needlework\, Memory\, and The Making of a Nation  \n\nThursday\, September 10\, 6:30 PM \n(Note: This lecture now begins at 6:30 PM) \nPurchase Tickets\nThis companion lecture to the exhibition American Girlhood by guest curator Emily Whitted will explore the larger history of needlework as part of early American education for girls. In the aftermath of the American Revolution\, female education was a critical space for civic development\, and needlework was one educational medium in which girls processed their own identities within the new nation. This lecture will connect needlework within the exhibition with pieces from other public collections\, and broadly trace the rich lives of early American girls engaged in crafting a nation.  \nTickets: $15 |$12.50 Virtual | $10 Members \n*This lecture will be offered in person and via Zoom. Zoom link will be provided in advance of the lecture. \nAbout the Curator | Emily Whitted is a PhD candidate at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and the guest curator of American Girlhood: Needlework\, Memory\, and the Making of a Nation. Her research broadly explores the history of textiles\, women’s history\, and material culture in early America. Her current and past work includes projects with the New Bedford Whaling Museum\, the National Park Service and National Council on Public History\, the Mercer Museum & Fonthill Castle\, and the Porter-Phelps-Huntington Foundation. She also holds an M.A. in American Material Culture from the Winterthur Program at the University of Delaware. 
URL:https://wdsmuseum.org/event/lecture-civic-stitches-early-american-needlework-and-national-identity/
LOCATION:WDS Museum\, 211 Main Street\, Wethersfield\, CT\, 06109
CATEGORIES:Learning Series,Lecture,Members,Antiques & Collectibles,Colonial History,America 250
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SUMMARY:CHAMBER MUSIC CONCERT | Musick's Recreation: At-Home Musick-Making in Colonial New England
DESCRIPTION:PURCHASE TICKETS\n  \nCHAMBER MUSIC CONCERT | Musick’s Recreation: At-Home Musick-Making in Colonial New England \nSaturday\, September 12\, 6:00 PM-7:00 PM \nBefore recorded sound\, music happened at home—played and sung by families\, friends\, and neighbors gathered in close quarters. This concert brings that tradition to our Waterman Room\, overlooking the garden\, with a performance by Lyracle\, an acclaimed ensemble specializing in historically informed vocal and viol music\, featuring mezzo-soprano Ashley Mulcahy and viola da gambist James Perretta. \nTogether they perform English songs and instrumental works that would have been familiar in colonial and early federal New England parlors\, connecting local history to the sound of the era. It’s a rare chance to hear chamber music the way it was designed to be experienced: in a small\, resonant room\, with the performers close enough to feel the music. \nTickets: $25 | $18 Members \n  \n\nAbout the Performers \nAshley Mulcahy\, mezzo-soprano\, is a graduate of the Voxtet program at the Yale School of Music and Institute of Sacred Music and has performed with Bach Collegium Japan\, the Boston Early Music Festival\, the Handel and Haydn Society\, and the Newberry Consort\, among others. \nJames Perretta\, viola da gamba\, is a Boston-based performer\, arranger\, and teacher who has appeared with the Boston Camerata and Nota Bene and twice participated in the Silkroad Ensemble’s Global Musicians Workshop. \nTogether\, Mulcahy and Perretta founded the ensemble Lyracle in 2018. \n\n  \n  \n 
URL:https://wdsmuseum.org/event/concert-chamber-music-in-the-deane-house/
LOCATION:WDS Museum\, 211 Main Street\, Wethersfield\, CT\, 06109
CATEGORIES:concert,Performance,Members,Colonial History,America 250
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