Tenth Biennial Symposium: "In the Latest Fashion": High Style in Colonial and Early Federal America

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Photo of the parlor at the Golden Ball Tavern Museum

Join us on Monday, May 21st, 2018 the Golden Ball Tavern Museum for our tenth biennial symposium, "In the Latest Fashion" : High Style in Colonial and Early Federal America.  This is a wonderful opportunity to immerse yourself with the experts in our 18th century house museum.  Learn about 18th and early 19th century decorative arts, furnishings and clothing.

The symposium will be held at the Golden Ball Tavern Museum, 662 Boston Post Rd., Weston, MA from 9:15 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.  Cost:  $75 members, $100 non-members (Box lunch, coffee and tours of the museum included).  Our symposiums are as informative as they are entertaining.  Immerse yourself with the experts for:  "Reimagining the Parlor at the Moffatt-Ladd House in Portsmouth, NH to its Original Splendor",  Barbara M Ward, Ph.D.;   "The Wonders of Wool: From and Ancient Tradition to New Uses in Colonial America", Edward Maeder; and "Art and Artifice, Gentility and the Mundane: Life at Mount Vernon, 1757-1799", Betsy Garrett Widmer.  Registration details below or on our website.

 

 

Photo courtesy of Moffatt-Ladd House

Photo courtesy of Mt. Vernon Ladies' Association

 

Photo courtesy of Gore Place