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The Wallace Nutting Collectors Club Celebrates 50 Years with

Annual Convention September 14-15 on Cape Cod

HYANNIS, MA – The Wallace Nutting Collectors Club is celebrating to George. If he felt it was important, it
50 years of sharing, learning about, and appreciating the work of was. Incidentally, I am still adding a title
Wallace Nutting through his artful photography, decorative goods, and every now and then to the list so they still
furniture. On September 14 and 15, the group will be gathering for a turn up.”
special convention at the Emerald Resort and Conference Center in the Today, the club has members across the
town of Hyannis on Cape Cod. U.S. with a goal to keep the involvement
The Wallace Nutting Collector’s Club began in 1973 thanks to and preservation of the Club going strong,
Justine and George Monro. In an remembrance written in the Club’s in addition to making an effort to grow the
Fall 2005 newsletter, Willis White spoke about how George and he community of Wallace Nutting and other
began a list of the many Wallace Nutting works, noting that, “George hand-colored photography enthusiasts.
and I started to keep a record of Nutting pictures that were in existence. The Convention will feature a number
We started sending titles back and forth but eventually I inherited the of guest speakers including Jen
job and George continued to send me titles. For some reason he felt the Richards from the Framingham
date of the copyright was very important and with every title I sent him Public Library discussing an upcom-
a note would follow, ‘Did you get the copyright date?’ The fact that ing Zoom presentation by the Library
Nutting only copyrighted some 3000 pictures didn’t make any difference along with information on the
Library’s recent Nutting acquision
and extensive collection; Diane
Thompson-Naylor will present
Wallace R. MacKaskill – One of
Nova Scotia’s Best Known
Photographers, Mike Pellegrino
offers David Davidson – Every
Picture Tells a Story, and Jan Liberatore shares insight in
her talk Wallace Nutting’s Pitcher and a Picture. Members are also
invited to take a fast ferry to the island of Nantucket for a bus tour of
the place captured by Nutting on many occasions.
For more information on the Club, membership, pictures of
previous conventions, and its 2023 Convention, visit their website
at www.wallacenutting.org

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