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Book Bag: ‘The Art is the Cloth’ by Micala Sidore; ‘All the Light Here Comes from Above’ by Robert T. McMaster
An image from “The Art is the Cloth.”
By STEVE PFARRER
All the Light Here Comes from Above: The Life and Legacy of Edward Hitchcock by Robert T. McMaster (UnQuomonk Press)
Williamsburg author Robert McMaster, a former biology professor at Holyoke Community College, is also the author of a trio of historical novels, known as the “Trolley Days” series, set in the Holyoke/Springfield/Westfield area in the early 20th century.
In his latest work, McMaster has combined his interest in science and history to take a close look at a seminal figure from Amherst College: Edward Hitchcock, a prominent science professor at the school in the early 19th century and the college’s third president, as well as a skilled geologist who made notable surveys of Massachusetts especially of the Connecticut River Valley and of New York state and Vermont. It’s the first-e
A Page from North Quabbin History: The unhappy history of Zylpha Smith Zylpha Smith: A Life in Warwick, by Clare Green, illustrated by Reba-Jean Shaw-Pichette. Contributed photo
Clare Green poses as Zylpha Smith of Warwick. Photo/Cathy Carey
Modified: 4/26/2021 2:40:41 PM If you happened along the road from Warwick to North Orange in the 1800s, you might have noticed a woman walking along wearing a dark green cloak and carrying a carpet bag left over from the Civil War. This woman was Zylpha Smith. Clare Green, trustee of the Warwick Historical Society, has portrayed Zylpha at Warwick Old Home Days and other events, to encourage interest in Warwick’s history and the Warwick Historical Society.
Book Bag: ‘The Art is the Cloth’ by Micala Sidore; ‘All the Light Here Comes from Above’ by Robert T. McMaster
An image from “The Art is the Cloth.”
The Art is the Cloth by Micala Sidore (Schiffer Publishing)
In addition to creating her own tapestries, Northampton weaver and artist Micala Sidore has written about them for years for various publications and has led many weaving workshops. She’s also traveled to different parts of the world, including Siberia and India, to examine different styles of tapestries and attend workshops herself to learn new techniques.
Now Sidore has synthesized much of that experience and research in “The Art is the Cloth,” a handsome, coffee-table style book that includes color images of more than 300 tapestries from around the world and from as far back as the 13th century to offer a guide for weavers, textile lovers, and art lovers alike.
Robert L. Herbert, 91, Dies; Saw Impressionism With a Fresh Eye
A distinguished art historian at Yale, he illuminated the paintings of Seurat, Monet and others by regarding them through a social lens.
The pioneering art historian Robert L. Herbert in 1972. In a teaching career that spanned six decades, he was a prolific writer, editor and curator.Credit.via Herbert family
By Richard B. Woodward
Feb. 8, 2021
Robert L. Herbert, a pioneering scholar of 19th-century art whose 1988 history of Impressionism, viewed through a social lens, delivered a robust transfusion to the study of that period, died on Dec. 17 in Northampton, Mass. He was 91.