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Grant will help Shaker Museum project
CHATHAM – Shaker Museum was awarded a two-year, $230,000 grant from the Henry Luce Foundation for the installation of the Shaker Belief, Shaker Life, Shaker Community collection, to be presented at the launch of the museum’s upcoming facility in downtown Chatham.
Curated by Maggie Taft, the display will offer a kaleidoscopic view of American Shakerism from the religion’s founding in the late 18th century to its flourishing in the 19th century and decline in the 20th. Using selections from Shaker Museum’s collection, the exhibition will explore how Shakerism’s radical foundational values of equality, inclusion, and accessibility were pursued and experienced by members of Shaker communities, according to the museum.
North Country Public Radio Last March, the Hyde Collection, a historic house museum in Glens Falls, closed to the public when the pandemic hit, along with virtually every museum in the state. In August, the Hyde reopened with all the new features of the COVID era: plexiglass shields and markers for social distancing. But capacity, said the museum’s CEO, Norm Dascher, remained “very limited.” “We only allow two people at a time in 15 minute intervals, so we never had more than 20 people in the museum,” Dascher said, noting the museum lost not only ticket revenue over the past year but also corporate sponsorships tied to exhibitions. Organizers had to cancel its biggest yearly fundraiser, a gala, in September.
pcrowley@adirondackdailyenterprise.com Natalie Leduc donates more than 500 books from her personal ski history library to the Adirondack Research Room of the Saranac Lake Free Library in June 2016.
(Enterprise photo â Chris Knight) Natalie Bombard poses as a teenager in 1946, as she was starting to make a name for herself as a skier.
(Photo courtesy of Natalie Leduc and Historic Saranac Lake) Natalie Bombard’s yearbook photo. (Image provided by Howard Riley) Natalie Bombard and Tom Fina ride on a parade float as queen and king of the Saranac Lake Winter Carnival in 1951.
(Photo courtesy of Don Duso, the Adirondack Research Room of the Saranac Lake Free Library, and Historic Saranac Lake)