August 05, 2024
Cecelia Eure, WPAMC '24
When I saw on the schedule for the WPAMC Northern trip that we were visiting a weaving shop in upstate New York, I assumed that it would be a hand weaving shop a la Colonial Williamsburg. While that would have been fabulous, and there was some hand weaving happening at Thistle Hill Weavers in Cherry Valley, NY, I was thrilled when I walked into Rabbit Goody’s mill and saw machines dating from 1890 to 1940.
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July 29, 2024
Taylor Rossini, WPAMC '24
Figure 1: View of Olana from grounds, photo by author.
On our Northern Field Studies trip, we visited Olana, an Orientalist fantasia nestled along the Hudson River that served as the country home and studio of landscape painter Frederic Edwin Church. The property and its contents have remained remarkably intact from the Church family’s residence there, in large part due to the herculean efforts of art historian David ...
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July 22, 2024
Em Dombrovskaya, WPAMC '24
Exterior view of the main house at Drayton Hall. Photo by Em Dombrovskaya.
Traveling through North and South Carolina as part of the WPAMC Southern Trip, our group visited three plantations, including Charleston’s fascinating Drayton Hall. Located in the phosphate-rich area surrounding the Ashley River, Drayton Hall is an 18th-century plantation on a 630-acre site with an imposing, Palladian-style house. In recent ...
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July 15, 2024
Kelly Pedigo, WPAMC '24
Kendall Grove Plantation. Eastville, VA. Taken by the author.
When I learned that the first stop on our whirlwind trip through the South would be with Bernie Herman on Virginia’s Eastern Shore, I knew we were in for an incredible adventure. At Kendall Grove Plantation, Bernie both metaphorically and literally walked us through the site’s outbuildings. We looked up at the keyhole-shaped vents of a smokehouse, at the ...
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