The Northeastern Woodworker's Association's September Meeting may be of
interest to folks here...

Thursday, September 11, 2008, 7:00 pm
Shaker Heritage Society Meetinghouse
Albany-Shaker Road, Albany, NY

What Is Shaker Furniture?

By Jerry Grant

Jerry Grant is the Director of Research and Library
Services at the Shaker Museum and Library in Old
Chatham, New York. His professional training is as a
librarian with a specialty in rare books and archives.
Jerry has been on the staff of the Shaker Museum and
Library since 1987 and has worked in jobs related to the
history and practices of the Shakers for nearly thirty
years. He is the co-author with Douglas Allen of Shaker
Furniture Makers and Noble but Plain: The Shaker
Meetinghouse at Mount Lebanon. While choosing a career
in research and rare books, Jerry has worked both as a
curator and as a craftsman - making replicas of Shaker
oval boxes.

For years there have been debates about what is or
is not Shaker Furniture. Jerry will present an illustrated
lecture on changing opinions of what is included in the
phrase, "Shaker Furniture." Early writers on the Shakers
focused on a very limited number of pieces of furniture
that met their stylistic criteria for being included in the
category of Shaker furniture. Over the years the definition
of what is Shaker has broadened, but Jerry believes
it has begun to once again contract. He will show examples
of this change and give his opinion on what it is
that makes something not only a piece of Shaker furniture
but an exciting piece of Shaker furniture.
Members of the Shaker Heritage Society have been
invited to join us at this meeting.

Wow, what a great meeting!

As a newsletter editor of our local club is there
a way I could get a copy of his presentation?

MJM

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...
Wow, what a great meeting!

As a newsletter editor of our local club is there
a way I could get a copy of his presentation?


Interesting question... I'll ask if they plan to video tape the presentation
or otherwise make the presentation available.

John

John Grossbohlin wrote:

The Northeastern Woodworker's Association's September Meeting may be of
interest to folks here...

Thursday, September 11, 2008, 7:00 pm
Shaker Heritage Society Meetinghouse
Albany-Shaker Road, Albany, NY

... snip

Interesting. Someone had given me some magazines that he inherited by his
father, I'm scanning through them and cataloging those articles that
interest me. I didn't finish completely reading it yet, but an interesting
article on differences among the various shaker community styles can be
found in Popular Woodworking February 2006 pp 72

--
If you're going to be dumb, you better be tough

"Mark & Juanita" wrote in message
...
John Grossbohlin wrote:

The Northeastern Woodworker's Association's September Meeting may be of
interest to folks here...

Thursday, September 11, 2008, 7:00 pm
Shaker Heritage Society Meetinghouse
Albany-Shaker Road, Albany, NY

... snip

Interesting. Someone had given me some magazines that he inherited by
his
father, I'm scanning through them and cataloging those articles that
interest me. I didn't finish completely reading it yet, but an
interesting
article on differences among the various shaker community styles can be
found in Popular Woodworking February 2006 pp 72

That is an interesting article....

I've been to the museum and library from which the speaker hails and there
is certainly a lot of stuff there to study! That's the place where I took
the photos of the Shaker stationary woodworking tools that I posted a couple
years ago...

John

schnip

He will show examples
of this change and give his opinion on what it is
that makes something not only a piece of Shaker furniture
but an exciting piece of Shaker furniture.


Kind of a contradiction of terms, idn't it?

B.

Buddy Matlosz wrote:
schnip

He will show examples
of this change and give his opinion on what it is
that makes something not only a piece of Shaker furniture
but an exciting piece of Shaker furniture.


Kind of a contradiction of terms, idn't it?


Those Shakers are an exciting group!

To the Amish... G

In article ,
says...
Buddy Matlosz wrote:
schnip

He will show examples
of this change and give his opinion on what it is
that makes something not only a piece of Shaker furniture
but an exciting piece of Shaker furniture.


Kind of a contradiction of terms, idn't it?


Those Shakers are an exciting group!

To the Amish... G

Not true. The Amish have sex. ;-)

--
Keith

krw wrote:

In article ,
says...
Buddy Matlosz wrote:
schnip

He will show examples
of this change and give his opinion on what it is
that makes something not only a piece of Shaker furniture
but an exciting piece of Shaker furniture.


Kind of a contradiction of terms, idn't it?


Those Shakers are an exciting group!

To the Amish... G

Not true. The Amish have sex. ;-)


... and that, boys and girls, is why there are still Amish among us while
there are no longer any Shakers.


--
If you're going to be dumb, you better be tough

"Mark & Juanita" wrote in message
...
krw wrote:

In article ,
says...
Buddy Matlosz wrote:
schnip

He will show examples
of this change and give his opinion on what it is
that makes something not only a piece of Shaker furniture
but an exciting piece of Shaker furniture.


Kind of a contradiction of terms, idn't it?


Those Shakers are an exciting group!

To the Amish... G

Not true. The Amish have sex. ;-)


... and that, boys and girls, is why there are still Amish among us while
there are no longer any Shakers.

Yeah, but with all that inbreeding, it's a question of quality, not
quantity.

B.