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Penn Dry Goods Market Celebrates 10 Years June 2 & 3

PENNSBURG, PA – Penn Dry Goods Market at the Schwenkfelder of Picking Pockets as Told by Mary Young (alias Jenny Diver) with Kathy
Library & Heritage Center in Pennsburg, PA, is celebrating its tenth Staples, independent scholar.
anniversary on Friday, June 2 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Saturday, On Saturday, start your day with From Drinker’s Alley to Opposite
June 3 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Admission is $6 at the door. Pemberton’s Garden: Mapping Philadelphia Needlework with Dr. Laura
The Penn Dry Goods Market is a textile-focused antiques and Johnson, the Linda Eaton associate curator of textiles at Winterthur,
vintage show with 24 dealers hailing from Pennsylvania and other from 8:45-9:45 a.m. From 10-11 a.m., there is a double offering:
locations on the east coast. These dealers are among the best in antique Constructing Family Networks Through Textiles and Text: Martha
textiles, offering samplers and other needlework, quilts, coverlets and Matteson’s Autograph Album with Abigail Koontz, curator and programs
woven objects, linens, yardage, sewing smalls, sewing tools and manager at Washington County (MD) Historical Society, and
equipment, buttons, and baskets. This year the show “Compelled to Pad and Wad:” Spinal Curvatures and
will also feature folk art, primitives, and Americana. Dress in 19th Century America by Emily Bach, fashion
Along with the antiques show, the 10th Anniversary historian and museum professional. Coming up from
is being celebrated by offering several textile history 11:15 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. is Ma’s Delaine: Fact or Fiction?
lectures during the antiques show with 11 nationally and by Lynn Zacek Bassett, independent curator and author.
internationally known speakers. Lectures begin at 8:45 After a lunch break, check out Wool on Wool –
a.m. on both Friday and Saturday. Pennsylvania German Blankets and Coverlets by Johannes
Friday’s schedule features Plain and Simple: and Christian Zinzendorf from The Hermitage. Then to
Samplers of the Pleasant Hill Boarding School given by wind out the lecture series is The First Ladies and Their
Kathy Lesieur, an independent scholar and researcher, Needlework from Martha Washington to Barbara Bush
from 8:45-9:45 a.m., followed by the sold-out presenta- with Sheryl De Jong, volunteer at the Textile Collection
tion on Quilts of Franklin County, 1840s-1920s from of the National Museum of American History.
10-11 a.m. From 12:45-1:45 p.m., Marty Campanelli, All lectures require a ticket ($25/lecture), and
an independent textile scholar, will present “Remember me lest I be tickets will be taken at the door.
forgotten” – Connecting the threads of Burlington County, New Jersey’s The Schwenkfelder Library & Heritage Center is located at 105
Lush Lawn samplers to a newly discovered needlework instructress. Next up Seminary Street in Pennsburg, PA, and features internationally recognized
from 2-3 p.m. is Sewing Rolls – Materials and Methods in Construction collections and research facilities, engages visitors in the exploration of the
with Dawn Cook-Ronnigen, independent historian and scholar. Then themes of religious freedom, tolerance, migration, and heritage in their own
from 3:15-4:15 p.m. is a talk on Paint-decorated Furniture of the lives and the lives of their families through the stories of the Schwenkfelders
Pennsylvania Germans by Lisa Minardi, executive director of Historic and the Pennsylvania Germans of the Perkiomen region—people whose
Trappe. Finishing out the day will be a Happy Hour featuring The Art bonds of faith, families, and community tell a fundamental American story.

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