Passaic County - Clifton - CANCELLED - Scrapbook talk in Clifton
March 29 2020 scrapbook talk in Clifton, NJ Historic house museums appeal to our desires to imagine ourselves into different lives, lived in different surroundings. It’s always complicated – in extreme cases when plantation recreations invite us to enjoy the spoils of slaveholders, and ignore the slave quarters, for example. Scrapbook House, Strong Museum collection Schoolroom in scrapbook house, Strong Museum collection Scrapbook house parlor, including black servant, Strong Museum collection But wandering through someone else’s house is intriguing. Nineteenth-century children played with the desire to try out different homes in their house scrapbooks, where they created rooms and scenarios in them from catalog and magazine pictures. On Sunday, March 29, 1 pm, you can visit a 19th-century farmhouse and hear about historic scrapbooks. And if you have old scrapbooks in your family, bring them. I’ll bring some from my collection, too – and of course, lots of great pictures of how our...