Rokeby MuseumVideo: Demystifying the Creative Process with Courtney Clinton (ICYMI)
Before the final illustration, an artist makes dozens of sketchbook studies. In these studies they gather reference material and work out a creative image design.
On September 12th, 2021, Rokeby Museum’s 2020 artist-in-residence, Courtney Clinton, joined us to share more about how illustrators like Rachael Robinson Elmer (1878–1919) built and developed their creative ideas through the sketchbook process.
Read MoreRokeby Museum & Vermont History: A Conversation w/ Lindsay Varner on ‘Across The Fence’
Rokeby Museum director, Lindsay Varner, appeared on Across the Fence in August. You can watch the video by clicking below.
Across the Fence is the longest-running locally-produced program in the U.S. and has been on-air on WCAX-TV since 1955! Across the Fence is produced by University of Vermont Extension.
Book Review: “Slavery in the North” by Mark Howard Ross
by Joan Gorman, Rokeby Museum Visitor Services Coordinator
Northerners have a tendency to think that where slavery existed at all it was on a smaller scale and the enslaved were treated better than the enslaved in the South.
The dust jacket of Slavery in the North: Forgetting History and Recovering Memory, by Marc Howard Ross, might give one the impression that the book is less than the scholarly, meticulously researched, book that it is. It is a serious discussion of the collective forgetting of history and the collective rekindling of the memories of the actions of our ancestors. Slavery in the North is tightly structured; Ross lays out his theses, uses examples to illustrate them, and sums them up at the end of each chapter to keep his arguments on track and to cogently develop and present his conclusions.
Read More2021 Pie & Ice Cream Social
Sunday, August 15, 2021, 1–4 pm
Admission: FREE
Slice of Pie & Ice Cream: $6
We are very excited to have our community favorite back once again this summer. Join us as we celebrate Summer and a return to in-person gatherings at Rokeby’s Annual Pie & Ice Cream Social. As in previous years, there will be yards and yards of homemade pies along with ice cream from Ben & Jerry’s. The Meatpackers, who performed to rave reviews in 2019, will return to provide live bluegrass while you enjoy your pie! We’ll also have some great gift basket raffles and croquet and badminton on the back lawns.
Admission to Rokeby Museum exhibits, grounds, and Pie & Ice Cream Social is free.
Prices:
Slice of Pie: $5
Slice of Pie with Ice Cream: $6
Ice Cream: $1
Beverages: $1
Giftbasket Raffle:
1 Ticket: $5
Sleeve of Tickets: $20
Tales of Oppression, Abolition, and Reform in the Hopper & Gibbons Families
On June 23rd, 2021, Angela Schear presented a talk on her abolitionist ancestors, Isaac T. Hopper and Abby Gibbons.
provided by Angela Schear
Hopper authored a column in the “The National Anti-Slavery Standard“ entitled “Tales of Oppression,” and was a well-known abolitionist and Hicksite Quaker. His biographer estimated that he personally assisted over 1,000 fugitives in obtaining their freedom during his forty years of residence in Philadelphia. His third daughter Abby followed in his footsteps of activism and reform. Together with her husband, James Gibbons, this Quaker family trio was influential in many Anti-slavery societies, prison reform work, and social activism. They knew most of the principal American abolitionists including the Robinsons and even hosted many, such as William L. Garrison and Horace Greeley, in their homes.
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