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1765 Act of Incorporation
Author: Sarah Currie
Photo Preservation Workshop
with Collections Curator, Laura Staneff, MA
Saturday, May 9th, 11 am at the WHM
Bring a photo to our workshop to learn what you can do to preserve your photos too!
Do you have a collection of old family photos that are fading fast? What can you do to protect them? Should you tape photos into your scrapbooks? Our freelance collections curator, Laura Downey Staneff, will answer your questions. In this workshop Laura will discuss different types of photographic processes, their mounts, and how they deteriorate as they age. She’ll also discuss how photographs should be displayed and stored. Did you know that displaying a high quality facsimile reproduction of your favorite family photo is a great way to preserve the original? Workshop participants are invited to bring individual photographs and plenty of questions for discussion about how to preserve your precious photos.
Singing School ~ Shape Note Music
Saturday, March 7th, 11:00 am, Milne Library
Shape Note Music, sometimes known as Sacred Harp Music, is an indigenous school of choral composition which dates originally from the late colonial/early federal era in our country. Singing masters, such as Justin Morgan, or William Billings (see photo on left), would travel the countryside teaching parishioners to read music to improve their singing of the hymns on Sunday. Come hear more about this unique type of music!
Singing School is a group of local amateur singers which can vary in number from four to a great unwieldy choir, but usually includes a core comprised of Deborah Burns, Karen Swann, Doug Paisley, Andy Burr, Jared Polens, Paul McFarland, and Amrita Lash. All are enthusiastic singers of the early American music. A popular example of a hymn which started in the Shape Note tradition is Amazing Grace. If you have never heard shape note music, this performance will show you that it is fun, uplifting, morbid, spooky, and loud – often all at once!