Summer 2001
- Preserving your Wedding Dress
- Wedding dresses are meant to be treasured. SPNEA carefully preserves about seventy gowns that were worn by brides as long ago as the eighteenth century.
- Cycles of Change and Renewal
- Over the centuries, the rhythmic tidal energy of the Salmon Falls River in South Berwick, Maine, has been paralleled by an ebb and flow of human endeavor ashore.
- Picturing New England
- SPNEA is pleased to present selections from its first amateur photography contest. All the images submitted will join thousands of other photographs preserved in SPNEA's Library and Archives.
- Boxes Open and Shut
- Boxes were made for every conceivable type of storage, in a variety of shapes and sizes, from plain to lavishly decorated. As containers of culture, they can reveal clues to social status or lifestyle.
- A Passionate Scholar
- Noted scholar Nina Fletcher Little, who with her husband Bertram K. Little was a pioneer collector of American folk art, authored books and scores of articles over her long career.
- By Children for Children
- Students from the third, fourth, and fifth grades of the Dever School in Dorchester, Massachusetts, undertook a project to create a family walking tour of this historic neighborhood. On Tuesday afternoons, they explored the area to discover architectural features that would capture the imaginations of young people.
- News New England and Beyond
- Short news items from Historic New England Magazine.
- Profiles of the Past
- In the first half of the nineteenth century, before the advent of photography, wax bas-reliefs were one of many ways of preserving a person's likeness. John Christian Rauschner, started working in Salem, Massachusetts, around 1809 and then traveled south to work in New York, Philadelphia, and finally Virginia.
