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Clock and Watch Collectors Coming to Concord, NH

CONCARD, NH – A new big regional meeting of the National at Gordon College in Wenham, MA. The NHHS has perhaps the
Association of Watch and Clock Collectors (NAWCC) will take most important collection of early New Hampshire clocks, donated
place April 26-27 at the Douglas N. Everett Arena in Concord, New by the late Charles Parsons who authored the definitive book on the
Hampshire. For the first time in decades, all six local and state subject. The public is invited to this two-hour program as well.
NAWCC chapters in New England will come together for two days The public will be warmly welcomed on Saturday morning, from
of buying, selling, and learning. 8 a.m. until closing time at noon. Admission includes opportunities
A highlight of all NAWCC regional meetings is the Mart. In for attendees to learn about old timekeepers they bring in; an
Concord, there will be more than one hundred tables loaded with information table will offer history and descriptions, and many dealers
antique clocks, vintage wrist and pocket watches, tools, parts, books, at their Mart tables will be willing to suggest values and perhaps
and horology-related collectibles. make purchase offers. If anyone wishes to attend Friday, NAWCC
Education programs are featured at all NAWCC events. In membership is easily obtained online at www.nawcc.org.
Concord, the NAWCC has teamed up with the New Hampshire As a bonus on Saturday afternoon and evening, a preview and
Historical Society (NHHS), a short drive away from the arena. cash-and-carry auction of hundreds of antique clocks and watches will
Beginning at 5 p.m. on Friday, April 26th, in their landmark be held at Schmitt Horan & Company based in Candia,
downtown headquarters, there will be three lectures about New New Hampshire, just a half-hour’s drive away. Attendance is free,
Hampshire clocks and clockmakers. refreshments will be available, and advance details will be posted at
Speakers include John Delaney, a frequent appraiser on PBS’ www.schmitt-horan.com. Their Sunday auction will feature higher-
Antiques Roadshow, of Delaney Antique Clocks in West Townsend, end and rarer timepieces fully described in printed and online catalogs.
MA; John Fitzwilliam, clock restorer, collector, and dealer based in For more information, see www.newenglandregional.org or call
Fitzwilliam, NH; and clock scholar Damon Di Mauro, a professor Bob Frishman, meeting co-chair, at 978-475-5001.

Litchfield Historical Society Launches New Lecture Series

February 25th remain, was a battle fought on multiple fronts. It encompassed

Indigenous leaders’ determination to expel white settlers from
LITCHFIELD, CT – The Litchfield Historical Society is excited to Native lands and free African Americans’ legal maneuvers to remain
announce a new series of lectures, Migration and Removal: within the states that sought to drive them out. In the middle states
Documenting the Historically Underrepresented Voices of Westward poised between the edges of slavery and freedom, removal was both
Expansion. The series will explore the experiences of women, free warmly embraced and hotly contested.
and enslaved African Americans, and Indigenous peoples during the Samantha Seeley is an Associate Professor of History at the
period of Westward Expansion. To accommodate audiences in University of Richmond where she specializes in 18th and 19th century
Connecticut, Ohio, and beyond, this series is primarily being hosted North American history and the early United States. Her book,
online via Zoom. Race, Removal, and the Right to Remain: Migration and the Making of
For the first lecture in the series, the Litchfield Historical Society the United States, was published in 2021 by the Omohundro
is delighted to host historian and author Samantha Seeley for a Institute of Early American History and Culture and University of
virtual discussion on her book, Race, Removal, and the Right to North Carolina Press. The book won the 2021 Merle Curti Prize
Remain: Migration and the Making of the United States on Sunday, and honorable mention for the James Rawley Prize from the
February 25th at 3 p.m. on Zoom. Organization of American Historians as well as the 2021 Jon Gjerde
Who had the right to live within the new United States of Prize from the Midwestern History Association.
America? In the decades after the American Revolution, federal and This program series is made possible through the generous
state politicians debated which categories of people could remain and support of the family of John Mayher.
which should be subject to removal. The result was a white Registration is requested. Register online at www.litchfieldhistori
Republic, purposefully constructed through contentious legal, calsociety.org/calendar and visit www.litchfieldhistoricalsociety.org
political, and diplomatic negotiation. But removal, like the right to to learn more.

Elegance, Taste, and Style: The Mary D. Doering Fashion

Collection Exhibit at Colonial Williamsburg

WILLIAMSBURG, VA – Colonial Williamsburg has the unique In addition to the objects themselves, visitors will enjoy a larger-
opportunity to share an important historic dress collection. Elegance, than-life video panel that will highlight a way in which we and our
Taste, and Style: The Mary D. Doering Fashion Collection leads you 18th-century ancestors are alike. The video panel will show people
through fifty years of one woman’s passion to create one of the great- of all races and classes, from Native Americans to soldiers, enslaved
est private collections of early textiles, accessories, and costume Africans to members of Colonial society’s upper echelons,
assembled in the United States. tradesmen and women, getting dressed.
More than 150 delicate objects dating from 1700 to 1840 will be “We have everything from plain, everyday clothes to the very fine
on display in rotations over the next three years, carefully protected and fancy,” said Neal Hurst, Colonial Williamsburg’s curator of historic
from bright lights and the oils and dirt on human hands. The exhibit dress and textiles. “Clothes are remarkable windows into people’s lives
opens February 22 at the DeWitt Wallace Decorative Arts Museum and tastes, and we’re grateful so much of it is still here for us to see.”
in the museum’s first dedicated gallery to historic dress, the Mary One exhibit highlight is a blue silk Englishman’s waistcoat, likely
Turner Gilliland and Clinton R. Gilliland Gallery embroidered in the 1760s in China, that Doering bought at a 1974
Mary D. Doering, a lifelong curator, educator, and researcher, auction in London. Another standout is an ivory silk and satin “round
used her collection to teach hundreds of students and researchers gown,” a popular 18th century style that integrated a petticoat—a type
about changing fashions, taste, design, and style. Doering carefully of undergarment—into the structure of its skirt. In near perfect
and thoughtfully selected every object in her collection. The condition, it is believed to be a wedding dress worn in England.
exhibition will feature 18th and early 19th-century women’s and This exhibit will be open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily. For more
men’s clothing as well as accessories and textile documents. information, visit colonialwilliamsburg.org

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