Description
Contents: Impersonation – Meet Ben Franklin (Because people still warm to Benjamin Franklin, Ralph Archbold has made a career out of playing this role.), On Exhibit – Raleigh and Roanoke (This quadricentennial exhibit focuses on the early settlements and plumbs the mystery of the Lost Colony.), Collecting – For Fluttering, Flirting and Collecting (Ellen Dennis’s American fan collection includes a patriotic number that does everything except salute.), Craft – Making Baskets the Shaker Way (Martha Wetherbee first discovered the Shaker technique, then perfected, even expanded upon, the form.), Railroads – Bridge to Nowhere (The restoration of the Devil’s Gate high bridge in Colorado brings back mining and railroad history.), Roundup – Sugaring-Off Time (The ritual of tapping trees for maple syrup is celebrated in a variety of maple-sugar festivals.), Restoration – Old Sturbridge’s New Sawmill (The new 1820’s sawmill has an authentic up-and-down saw that is necessary for cutting lumber true to the period.), Architecture – Buildings on File (America’s antique buildings live on in the archives of the Historic American Buildings Survey.)
Issue: March – April 1985
Condition: Very Good