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“My fingers on the canvas move”: A History of Textile Samplers – A special talk by textile historian Susan Jerome
Quickly now, what do you think of when someone begins to speak of a sampler? Words of wisdom, often from the Bible, stitched on to a piece of fabric? The alphabet, in capital and small letters, embroidered in a cross-stitch in both cursive and block letters? And one form of needlework often signed by the maker, unlike so many other ...
Tour: Madam Wood’s Wiscasset
LCHA Museum at the Old Jail 133 Federal St., WiscassetAlice Smith Duncan will help you picture the Wiscasset of the early 1800s through writer Madam Sally Wood's eyes. Register Below 4:00 pm. Meet at the Old Jail at 133 Federal Street in Wiscasset, where you will have an opportunity to view the Women Writers of Lincoln County exhibition briefly before carpooling to several different sites in Wiscasset. It is ...
Rediscovering Madam Sally Wood, Maine’s First Woman Novelist
OnlineAlice Smith Duncan will speak about Madam Sally Wood via Zoom on Wednesday, July 6th at 6pm. Registration is free/by donation. REGISTRATION BELOW Alice Smith Duncan Sarah “Sally” Sayward Barrell Keating Wood published her first novel in 1800 under the pseudonym "A Lady of Massachusetts.” After Maine became a state in 1820, she changed her pen name to "A Lady ...