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SUMMARY:"Alexander Jackson Davis: Designer of Dreams" at Lyndhurst
DESCRIPTION:Tour the exhibition Alexander Jackson Davis: Designer of Dreams with the Director of Lyndhurst and enjoy a private tea in the Carriage House! \nLyndhurst is a National Historic Landmark located on the banks of the Hudson River in Tarrytown and is considered the masterpiece of architect Alexander Jackson Davis. Our private tour of the mansion will be led by Lyndhurst staff\, along with executive director\, Howard Zar\, who will join us for the Designer of Dreams exhibit\, which explores Davis’s career as an architect and furniture designer. Upon the tour’s conclusion\, we will have an exclusively catered afternoon tea in the Lyndhurst Carriage House\, which includes sandwiches\, scones with cream and jam\, mini desserts\, and tea. \nPurchase tickets. \n \n \nMeeting Location: Northwest corner of 42nd Street and Lexington Avenue.\nDeparture Time: Bus leaves promptly at 9:00 a.m.\, please be sure to arrive at least 10 minutes early.\nTicket Price: $175 per person for current members; $200 for new and renewing members\, which includes a membership at the $40/$50 level for $25—at a discount! (Please be in touch if you wish to join or renew at a higher level\, or if you need to check on your membership level\, status\, or renewal dates: membership@vicsocny.org.) \nPhotographs: Bruce M. White
URL:https://vicsocny.org/calendar/alexander-jackson-davis-designer-of-dreams-at-lyndhurst/
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SUMMARY:A (Nearly) Unknown 20th-Century Preservation Hero: Albert Sprague Bard\, a Servant of Beauty
DESCRIPTION:In Conversation with Anthony C. Wood and Robert Jaeger on Wood’s new book Servant of Beauty: Landmarks\, Secret Love and the Uniminaged Life of an Unsung New York Hero \nAnthony Wood\, award-winning preservationist and author of Servant of Beauty: Landmarks\, Secret Love and the Unimagined Life of an Unsung New York Hero (Bloomsbury\, 2025)\, and Robert Jaeger\, preservationist\, co-founder of Partners for Sacred Places and author of Sacred Places at Risk\, will discuss Wood’s new book and preservation battles in 20th-century New York City. They will focus especially on the life and work of unknown civic activist and preservationist\, Albert Sprague Bard\, whose story is told for first time in Servant of Beauty. \nWednesday\, September 17\n6:30–8:00 pm\nSt. Paul and St. Andrew United Methodist Church\n263 West 86th Street New York\, NY 10024 \nPurchase tickets. \nAnthony C. Wood is a nationally recognized preservationist who has worked for\, founded\, served on the board of\, and chaired multiple New York preservation organizations including Friends of the Upper East Side Historic Districts\, the Preservation League of New York State\, and Partners for Sacred Places; winning awards such as the 2020 New York Landmarks Conservancy’s Lucy G. Moses Award for Preservation Leadership. Wood has served as an adjunct faculty member at Columbia University and founded the non-profit New York Preservation Archive Project whose mission is to document\, preserve\, and celebrate the history of preservation in New York. He is also the author of Preserving New York: Winning the Right to Protect a City’s Landmarks (Routledge\, 2008). \n \nAlbert Bard; Courtesy of Chi Psi Fraternity \n \nAnthony C. Wood; Photo: Eric Vitale Photography
URL:https://vicsocny.org/calendar/a-nearly-unknown-20th-century-preservation-hero-albert-sprague-bard-a-servant-of-beauty/
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SUMMARY:Beyond Self-Reliance: Biography\, Recovery\, and Women’s Contributions to the American Renaissance
DESCRIPTION:Scholars Kate Culkin and Patricia Valenti will discuss the role of biography in recovering the lives and contributions of 19th-century women\, in conjunction with the publication of Culkin’s Emerson’s Daughters: Ellen Tucker Emerson\, Edith Emerson Forbes\, and Their Family Legacy. \nEllen Tucker Emerson and Edith Emerson Forbes were the daughters of Lidian Jackson and the famous philosopher and author Ralph Waldo Emerson. Culkin and Valenti will explore Culkin’s groundbreaking investigations of how\, in a culture that celebrated self-reliance\, Ellen and Edith formed a partnership that allowed them to serve as their father’s secretaries and editors and shape his posthumous image\, while they also pursued their own goals and passions. This talk will address how Culkin’s work\, along with Valenti’s on Sophia Peabody Hawthorne (writer Nathaniel Hawthorne’s wife)\, contributes to the growing understanding of women’s contributions to transcendentalism and the American Renaissance\, as well as the critical role biographies play in the recovery of influential but understudied women. Culkin’s book (University of Massachusetts Press\, 2025) will be for sale and signing at the event. \nTuesday\, September 30\n6:30–8:00 pm\nSt. Paul and St. Andrew United Methodist Church\n263 West 86th Street New York\, NY 10024 \nPurchase tickets. \nKate Culkin\, Ph.D.\, is Professor of History at Bronx Community College and on the faculty of the Biography and Memoir MA program at the CUNY Graduate Center. She is the author of Harriet Hosmer: A Cultural Biography and Emerson’s Daughters: Ellen Tucker Emerson\, Edith Emerson Forbes\, and the Emerson Legacy and was an associate editor of The Harriet Jacobs Family Papers. \nPatricia Dunlavy Valenti is Professor Emerita in English at the University of North Carolina Pembroke. An award-winning teacher who held visiting professorships at the US Military Academy and the US Air Force Academy\, she is the author of five books and numerous articles on American literature and biography. Her two-volume Sophia Peabody Hawthorne\, A Life will be re-issued by Louisiana University Press in 2026. \nThe images are from the William Munroe Special Collections\, Concord Free Public Library. \n \nA sketch of Ellen and Edith Emerson by Caroline Hildrith\, c. 1847 \n \nEllen Emerson leads Edith Emerson on Gloriosa\, Ellen’s donkey\, c. 1870s \n  \n \nFamily portrait of the Emersons\, 1879
URL:https://vicsocny.org/calendar/beyond-self-reliance-biography-recovery-and-womens-contributions-to-the-american-renaissance/
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