The Newport Restoration Foundation has announced it has selected Franklin Vagnone to serve as the organization’s President, following a national search.
Old Salem Museums and Gardens is looking for new leadership. Current president and CEO Franklin Vagnone is leaving for a position in Rhode Island. Vagnone was an out-of-the-box choice when leaders of the tradition-bound institution chose him for the top position in 2016. Vagnone had earned a reputation as somewhat of an iconoclast after a book he co-authored The Anarchist’s Guide to Historic House Museums reimagined the way history was presented.
Frank Vagnone, who has served as president and the chief executive of Old Salem Museums and Gardens and the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts since January 2017, will step
Winston-Salem officials are preparing to unveil a historic marker commemorating the country’s first and only African American Moravian Church. St. Philips Moravian Church was established in 1822 to serve enslaved people living in and around Salem, as the town was known at the time. According to a news release, the congregation had been meeting at local farms before moving into the log church. A marker commemorating the church will be unveiled at 3 p.m., Saturday, April 30.