Myrna Kaye, astute writer and âsavvy sleuthâ in the antiques world, dies at 90
By Bryan Marquard Globe Staff,Updated May 12, 2021, 6:14 p.m.
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Mrs. Kaye, shown on her porch in Lexington on an American rocking chair, wrote several books, including There s A Bed in the Piano. BERRY, Pam GLOBE STAFF
Having moved with her family to Lexington in the early 1960s, Brooklyn-born Myrna Kaye needed a way to settle into her new life.
âI thought, âI have to do something to make New England home,â she told the Globe in 1998. âI looked around and saw all these weather vanes.â
Old Sturbridge Village adds new building to museum grounds
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Construction workers raise the frame Wednesday, March 31, 2021 on a new cabinetmaking shop at Old Sturbridge Village. (OSV photo)
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Old Sturbridge Village has raised the frame on a new cabinetmaking shop the first addition to its Village Common in more than 50 years years.
The new structure is located south of the Meeting House on the grounds of one of the country’s oldest and largest living history museums.
OSV has employed both historic and modern building methods in the construction of the Cabinetmaking Shop, which is patterned after period structures operated by early 19th century New England craftsmen.
Comments Workers raise the frame for a new Cabinetmaking Shop at Old Sturbridge Village, a historic interpretive village in Sturbridge, Massachusetts.
Sturbridge, MA – Old Sturbridge Village (OSV) raised the frame on a new cabinetmaking shop on Wednesday, March 31, 2021. This new structure is the first addition in over 50 years to the Village’s Common and will be located south of the Meeting House.
The Village has employed both historic and modern building methods in the construction of the Cabinetmaking Shop, which is patterned after period structures operated by early 19
th century New England craftsmen. The building will include a wood-burning stove, as did many free-standing shops of the period, and a small external woodshed, based on George Bradley’s shop in Newtown, Connecticut. Sturbridge and the region were home to some of the foremost cabinetmakers of the early 19