Historic Deerfield 2015 Annual Report Historic Deerfield Celebrates the 50th Anniversary of its Textile Collection

On June 4, 1965, the brand new Fabric Hall was opened to the public at Hall allowed Mrs. Flynt free reign to display a range of items in the Historic Deerfield (then known as The Heritage Foundation). Situated collection, from more exotic and opulent textiles to historic fashions behind the Silver Museum in a renovated 1870s barn (now Historic and textiles demonstrating aesthetic or technical excellence. Deerfield’s History Workshop), Fabric Hall showcased the In 1998, the extensive textile collection, which today numbers museum’s growing collection of clothing, needlework some 8,000 objects, was officially moved to the Flynt and domestic textiles. The gallery, which included Center of Early New England Life, a state of the art innovative ambient lighting, air conditioning, and space that allows the museum to permanently radiant floor heat, conveyed an early awareness of display items from the collection in the exhibition the need to monitor environmental conditions “Celebrating the Fiber Arts: The Helen Geier to protect fragile items. Fabric Hall was Flynt Textile Gallery.” The exhibition the dream of Helen Geier Flynt (1895- features a vast array of costumes, 1986) who, along with her husband, needlework and domestic textiles Henry N. Flynt (1893-1970), from the 17th to the 19th founded Historic Deerfield. centuries which are displayed No longer limited to the on a rotating basis. small spaces of the historic house museums, Fabric Message from the Chair, Board of Trustees

Fiscal year 2015 brought success at many programs for visitors including historic trades levels: the museum achieved the strategic demonstrations, exhibitions, a summer and goals set by the Board for the year, established winter lecture series, forums, workshops, the Deerfield Collectors Guild and acquired education programs, school programs, and two major objects for the collection, and much more. produced more than 70 engaging programs Collectors Guild. This year also marked the during the year. formation of the Deerfield Collectors Guild. Implementing the Strategic Plan. This year The Guild’s tightly-focused purpose is to marks the first full year of implementation of raise money for the acquisition of important the museum’s strategic plan--The 2020 Vision objects made or owned on The Street in for Historic Deerfield. This plan focuses Deerfield during the 17th to the early 20th additions to the collection: the Saxton Family the museum’s resources on (1) preserving centuries. Objects often appear unexpectedly Desk and Bookcase, circa 1790, and the Hoyt- Old Deerfield, (2) educating the museum’s on the market. The creation of the Guild Hitchcock Family Scallop-topped Chest, audience, (3) increasing attendance and caring makes quick and decisive action possible to circa 1779. Both are described in the Recent for our audience, and (4) raising the funds acquire important pieces. Nearly 60 donors Acquisitions section of this report. We so necessary to accomplish our many goals. joined as members in its first year of operation appreciate the commitment and support of President Philip Zea’s report to the Board enabling the museum to purchase two critical Guild members to acquiring high priority shows that major progress has been made on “Tier One” objects. virtually every goal and objective in the plan. I want to thank the staff, volunteers and This year’s achievements lay the groundwork trustees who helped make FY2015 a success! for the coming years and are an inspiring start Anne K. Groves to the plan’s five-year vision. Chair, Board of Trustees Museum Programming. Historic Deerfield’s engaging programs make the museum a rich experience for visitors of all ages. During the year, the museum put on more than 70

1,000 AD Late Woodland Indians introduce agriculture to the Deerfield area.

12,000 BC 1636 First human habitation William Pynchon and others found in Deerfield. Springfield, Massachusetts.

1 Report of the President

stewardship lightly. Regardless of your as they last. Assurance of public safety is personal position on energy resources, you as much of a right as profit motive in this would not have picked up our 2015 Annual country. Cheaper fuel costs are important if Report if you did not love Deerfield, think that actually delivered after expedient rhetoric. it is unique and important, or at least worth a But you cannot replace a broken cultural Sense of Place is a recurring theme in curious look. We think that too. That is why, taproot of international significance and call it Deerfield—has been for years, a lot of along with many of our neighbors in western a necessary casualty to progress. years—beginning with human occupancy Massachusetts and southern New Hampshire, After considerable public protest, Kinder twelve thousand years ago. Our rivers Historic Deerfield has opposed the Tennessee Morgan withdrew its application to the preserve and promote us on the one hand and Gas Pipeline Company (TGPC), a division Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on threaten us with the other, as they did here of Kinder Morgan, and their plan to run a May 23, 2016. in 2011 with the Tropical Storm Irene Flood. 30” pipeline for natural gas with interspersed At times like that the forces of nature merge compressor facilities through public and You should know that Historic Deerfield with memory to provide us with milestones. private land, preserved land with easements, thrice denied the TGPC access to survey our The date 1704 is one of those in these parts. and land of enormous cultural significance, land in the North Meadows. The reasoning Sometimes it is instead the year with two from Wright, New York, 430 miles eastward was captured in our letter of denial: ‘blue moons’ (a month with two full moons) to Dracut, Massachusetts, largely for overseas For clarity, let me state that Historic or the year of the yellow calf, whenever that export. Deerfield is a 501 (c) 3 public, non-profit, was. So what’s the rub? The pipeline was projected educational institution….located within The Our deep sense of place and time has led us to cross the Deerfield North Meadows (easy Old Deerfield National Historic Landmark, to form the Deerfield Collectors Guild, which digging), pierce the Pocumtuck Ridge, and one of the first established by the Department supports acquisition of significant objects pass under the Connecticut River with little of the Interior in 1962. The Old Deerfield made or owned right here on The Street. You financial benefit to the residents of western National Landmark encompasses the village cannot find collecting criteria more narrow Massachusetts other than important temporary of Old Deerfield and approximately 1000 and deep than that! And yet that is precisely construction jobs. In its wake would lay acres of actively cultivated farmland within what makes Historic Deerfield so rich, thanks considerable damage to private homeowners, its view shed along the floodplain of the to a commitment to documentation as a the farming community, and environmental Deerfield River. We work daily with local, primary collecting criterion of local material and cultural resources. The TGPC plan regional and national agencies to preserve let alone of significant objects from around took their pipeline under the very shadow and protect the agricultural way of life in the world gathered to tell the many stories of of Pine Hill, the center of the Pocumtuck this beautiful village. Historic Deerfield itself New England and American history. Native homeland and the site of numerous operates a museum of twelve antique houses, documented archeological discoveries not anchored by the modern Flynt Center of This deep past and our commitment to to mention just west of there the site of the Early New England Life, where we teach the authenticity, beauty and preservation make 1704 counterattack and final English defeat. history and culture of the Connecticut River a powerful potion, and we do not take its Construction jobs are important for as long Valley and rural New England. In all, the

1664/1665 Mohawks destroy the native village of Pocumtuck, the future site of Deerfield. Proprietors of Dedham, Massachusetts, send Joshua Fisher to Deerfield to 1673 survey an 8,000-acre grant. Deerfield incorporated as a town 1669 Mehuman Robert Hinsdale is the first English settler of Deerfield

2 Old Deerfield National Historic Landmark sense of place speak to quality of life, counts the survival of 26 eighteenth-century and when threatened create both real houses, and 14 more that pre-date 1850, on damage and dangerous precedence their original sites with related archeology to both way of life and livelihood. in a village that retains its original scale Those most affected and those with the and town plan from the 1670s. Just as least benefit only because they stand importantly, the Old Deerfield National in the way should neither endure as Landmark encompasses the homeland of the pawns to profit nor as stewards easily Pocumtuck Native Americans. Your proposed diminished. We hope you agree. pipeline is projected to travel in the very shadow of Pine Hill in the North Meadows, Philip Zea President which is the site of their principal village established 8000 years ago and which, with other Native and historic sites within view, has been excavated and preserved by the University Massachusetts Summer Field School in Archeology, an affiliate of Historic Deerfield. Designation as a National Historic Landmark by the Department of the Interior recognizes high cultural and historic significance and provides a layer of protection from development. In our view, the Tennessee Gas Pipeline Company project poses a threat to the cultural resources embedded in the creation of the Old Deerfield National Historic Landmark and Historic Deerfield, Inc. and brings with it many still unanswered questions about long-term public safety and economic benefits to western Massachusetts. As a result, I must deny permission to the Tennessee Gas Pipeline Company to survey Historic Deerfield’s property.

The point of the story, and in part the point of recent history, is that cultural memory and

1675 1688 Bloody Brook attack on the site of John Williams first settled South Deerfield leaves 64 dead minister of Deerfield 1682 Deerfield resettled

3 Henry Needham Flynt, Jr. (1922-2015)

While it was Henry, Sr., and Helen Geier the phoenix who steered Historic Deerfield Flynt, who founded Historic Deerfield and through the impact and emergence from that furnished twelve museum houses by 1962, catastrophe and then to lead the museum the fourteen-year-old Hank was the one during the 1990s in the capital campaign to who entered the freshman class at Deerfield create the pivotal Flynt Center of Early New Academy in 1936 at the beginning of his England Life. parents’ relationship with this unique place. One might say that the parents followed Hank Flynt’s many skills and qualities were the child to this ancient village landscape. topped off by his sense of timing: whether Later Hank cemented the family’s deep ties a stand-up comedian at a dinner party, a pat with both Deerfield and Williams College, on the back for others when things were There is honor in being named for one’s father where he followed in his dad’s footsteps as not going well, or support for the family’s even though as “junior” it is harder to make a student and then for decades was the Dean beloved Deerfield, which also included a name for yourself. After all it belongs to of Financial Aid changing innumerable lives the Memorial Hall Museum and Deerfield someone else. Yet Hank Flynt, along with his for those who never forgot their start. Hank Academy as well as other organizations. wife, Mary, were legends in their own time and Mary modestly eschewed important Hank epitomized the opposite of ‘nice guys in western Massachusetts and particularly art and antiques. He never collected much finish last.’ He was always willing to concede in their larger spheres of Historic Deerfield, more than stamps as a child and yet became top billing if it elevated the cause. And fear founded by Hank’s parents in the late 1940s, a champion of the educational potential of not, Hank could ask tough questions (made and of Williams College, the educator of cultural history as the board chair of Historic tougher by being nicely asked) and challenge several Flynt generations. The path was laid Deerfield for twenty-five years. (Ironically, those who required complaint to mend their by Hank’s demure, affable style and broad Hank and Mary were celebrated as “Young ways. Hank Flynt remains a model for us in sense of the stage—political, educational, Collectors” in the November 1954 issue of how to support who and what you care about inspirational—where he became a quiet The Magazine Antiques, which Hank would along the way to the greater good. That is why catalyst with a clear vision and passion at key say impishly was only because they lived with we celebrate a “junior’s” considerable legacy moments in Historic Deerfield’s past. his parents ‘mistakes!’) After the devastating in this great American place. fire at the Deerfield Inn in 1979, Hank became —Philip Zea

1707 The Redeemed Captive Returning to Zion published in Boston 1704 1729 French and Indian raid destroys Deerfield; Death of John Williams, marks 50 residents killed, 112 captured and the end of Deerfield’s first marched to Canada generation 4 Henry Needham Flynt, Jr. (1922-2015) Report of the Vice President for Museum Affairs

textile gallery and throughout the year a series A new exhibition, Greek Gods, Roman Ideals: of blog posts highlighting individual pieces Neoclassicism and Style in Early America, in the collection appeared on the museum’s was installed in the lobby of the Flynt Center website. of Early New England Life. Neoclassical design was also the focus of a very successful The Highland Street Foundation, based in three-day program in November that featured Newton, Massachusetts, invited Historic There are many highlights from last year to lectures on architecture, furniture, clocks, Deerfield to participate with 66 other cultural share. 2015 marked a milestone anniversary maps, and interior decoration. of the Helen Geier Flynt Textile Gallery. We institutions in their Free Fun Friday program. Our December holiday program kicked off organized an exciting roster of programs that This state-wide initiative aims to increase with the second annual Heritage Recipe focused on the collections and the history of public participation in cultural events by Baking Contest sponsored by King Arthur Deerfield and the Connecticut River Valley. offering free admission on Fridays throughout Flour’s Flagship Store, based in Norwich, Important manuscripts and objects were added the summer. The day we participated,786 Vermont. Fourteen finalists competed for to the collection. Staff worked with students people visited Historic Deerfield. three coveted titles: Best Story, won by Mary and area educators to provide compelling The first annual building trade symposium on Kay Felton of Camden, Maine, for Spitz and engaging educational experiences. And, house joinery in New England was extremely Buben; Best Recipe, won by Amy Stout of the museum benefited from the continued successful: over 130 people registered for Montague, Massachusetts, for Mom’s Apricot generosity of our members, donors, and the one-day program. We had a record crowd Danish; and, Most Creative, won by Johanna dedicated corps of volunteers. for our annual Patriot’s Day Revolutionary Swartzentruber of Greenfield, Massachusetts, Muster & Parade in April. The spring forum, Programs & Exhibitions for Clara’s Croquembouche. Congratulations Pillow Talk: Discovering Early New England Historic Deerfield celebrated the 50th to our winners! Historic Deerfield is pleased Bed Chambers, examined the functions and anniversary of the Helen Geier Flynt Textile to share the recipes and stories from all material culture of the New England bed Gallery with a lecture series, Textiles and contestants on our website. chamber. The program brought a diverse Fashion in Early America, and the latest group of historians and specialists to Deerfield Collections & Conservation issue of our magazine, Historic Deerfield, During the fiscal year, the museum acquired who addressed issues of fashion and status, which explores the history and depth of this 185 objects for the permanent collection: comfort, privacy, sleep patterns, health and nationally important collection. A new quilt 28 were purchased, 38 were gifts, and 119 hygiene. and coverlet display case was installed in the were bequests. We thank our donors for their

1730s 1740s-1760s Deerfield’s beef cattle first Building boom sold in Boston in Deerfield 1746 Last Indian attack on Deerfield inspires the poem “The Bars Fight” by Lucy Terry Prince 5 generosity. (See Recent Acquisitions for more in the last year. Two notable furniture While the Wells-Thorn House was closed this details.) pattern books were acquired: George spring when major structural repairs were Smith’s Collection of Designs for Household made at the juncture of the ell and the main Historic Deerfield received a $6,000 Furniture and Interior Decoration, in house, staff took advantage of the opportunity National Endowment for the Humanities the Most Approved and Elegant Taste and installed new grass matting in the second Preservation Access Grant to support the (London, 1808), and Cabinet-Maker’s floor south bed chamber. purchase of equipment and training to monitor and Upholsterer’s Guide (London, temperature and relative humidity readings 1789) published by Alice Hepplewhite, A number of much needed exterior painting in the museum environments where objects widow of cabinetmaker George Hepplewhite. projects were completed last year, including are displayed and stored. We are also pleased the Dwight House and fence, Hall Tavern to report that 51 objects in the permanent Historic House Restoration and fence, Allen House, Stebbins ell, and the Work continues on the restoration of Barnard collection were conserved last year. Maintenance Shop. Tavern. Interestingly, 2015 marks the 125th One of the more important acquisitions at the anniversary of when Charlotte Alice Baker Marketing & Promotion Memorial Libraries is a letter dated December purchased the Frary House/Barnard Tavern Wanderlust, a destination-marketing firm 3, 1796, from William Moore, formerly and began her own important restoration based in Troy, New York, continues to a Greenfield merchant, to a Mr. Mason, work. Plaster walls in all of the first floor assist Historic Deerfield with reaching purchased in an online auction. Moore, one rooms of the tavern were repaired. An new audiences via the Internet. Our online of the original proprietors of the Locks & architectural paint conservator completed marketing campaign increased traffic to the Canal on the Connecticut River Co., solicited a study of the paint schemes in all interior museum’s website by 31 percent with top Mason to purchase stock in the company, rooms. A reproduction front door and partial referrals coming from Google, Facebook, and and reported on the amount of tonnage of front door surround is being fabricated. PBS. Visitors to our website are enjoying a goods that has gone upriver past the falls. In The back room off of the kitchen is being series of videos highlighting different aspects the letter, Moore mentions John Williams of upgraded for the future placement of of the collection and the museum experience. Deerfield, another of the company proprietors. interpretive panels. The Greenfield Recorder We will expand the series with new videos in published an excellent article chronicling the the coming year. Marketing efforts to promote 244 titles were added to the library collection restoration work at Barnard Tavern. the Deerfield Inn focused on creating a new

1797 Deerfield Academy founded at meeting in Barnard Tavern assembly room 1774 1799 Liberty Pole raised in Deerfield Farmer and mill owner representing division between Asa Stebbins builds the Patriots and Tories first brick house 6 television spot highlighting the great food and service at Champney’s Restaurant. A new, convenient guest satisfaction measurement survey was implemented so Inn customers can leave feedback onsite or online.

Historic Deerfield was featured in an informative article in the Boston Globe promoting the museum as a “must see” destination. We hope this great regional press coverage will lead to increased visitation in the coming year.

2015 was a year rich with many accomplishments. Guided by our strategic plan, Historic Deerfield’s vision and strategies are aligned so that we can continue to: preserve the historic buildings, collections, and landscapes; develop compelling educational opportunities for visitors of all ages; and, provide visitors with an enjoyable museum experience. We look forward to the opportunities that 2016 will present.

Anne Lanning Vice President for Museum Affairs

1818 Town historian George Sheldon born in Sheldon House

1824 1848 Brick Church built First organized historic preserva- tion movement in the U.S. fails to save Deerfield’s oldest house 7 1867 1884 Civil War monument erected Deerfield Inn opens 1870 PVMA founded by Deerfield historian George Sheldon and others 8 Historic Deerfield Program Offerings, 2014-2015

Summer Lecture Series: The Arts & Crafts • Shoemaking (October) Exhibitions • Deerfield: A Community of Craftwork in the Movement (July) • Architectural Woodworking (October) Early 20th Century (July-February) • Arts and Crafts in Chicago: A Bridge to • Birch Bark Basketmaking (October) • Celebrating the Fiber Arts: The Helen the Future • Gravestone Carving (October) Geier Flynt Textile Gallery • The Remarkable Madeline Wynne and • Redware Pottery (October/November) • Engraved Powder Horns from the DeerfieldArts and Crafts • Early 19th c. Medical Practice French and Indian War and the American • The Arts and Crafts Movement in Boston (November) Revolution: The William H. Guthman Free Fun Friday • Tinsmithing (November) Collection The Seed of Seeds: The Story of Corn and its • Paper Marbling (November) • Into the Woods: Crafting Early American Many Uses (September – November) • Letterpress Printing (December) Furniture Friends of Historic Deerfield Trip • Furniture Masterworks: Tradition and (September) Focus Fridays (October) Innovation in Western Massachusetts • New England “Crazy Quilt” • Greek Gods, Roman Ideals: Neoclassicism Historic Trade Demonstrations • Two-handled Silver Cup by John Dixwell and Style in Early America (February 28, • Blacksmithing (September) • Chinese Export Porcelain Tea Set 2015-February 14, 2016) • Coopering (October) • Demi-Lune Commode • Stoneware (October) • Silversmithing (October) 2014 ADA/Historic Deerfield Antiques Show Public Programs A Botanical Journey: Exploring Plants and • 18th-century Cabinetmaking (October) (October) People in the Past (July-August) • Gunsmithing (October) Guided Tour of the Old Burying Ground on Open Hearth Cooking Demonstrations (July; • Tailoring (October) Albany Road (October) September-December; April-June) • Dressmaking (October)

1896 Deerfield Society of Blue and White Needlework formed 1892 1936 Restoration of Frary House com- Henry and Helen Flynt come to pleted by Miss C.Alice Baker Deerfield to enroll their son at Deerfield Academy 9 In Search of Heirloom Apples, book signing • Exquisite Selections: Masterpieces from featuring “My Wife, Abigail Adams, the First and talk by Russell Powell (October) the Historic Deerfield extileT Collection Modern American Woman” by President John Archaeology Day (October) (January) Adams reenactor George Baker Smith-Deerfield Symposium: The Poetical • Boarding in Boston: Education, Works of Edward Taylor (October) Embroidery and Refinement in the Late Patriot’s Day Revolutionary Muster and Caring for Your Treasures: Preservation of Colonial Period (February) Parade (April) Collections in Small Museums (November) • Patterns of Their Time: Design in Printed Day of Giving (November) Textiles (March) It’s About Time (April-June) 17th Century Life (November) Wreath Making (December) Open Hearth Cooking Classes (February- The Dublin Seminar for New England March) Folklife: Schooldays in New England, 1650- Heritage Holiday (December) • Basics: From Hearth to Table 1900 (June) • Heritage Baking Day/Heritage • From Scratch Recipe Contest • Empowered by a Power Outage: Cooking • Open Hearth Cooking in Your Fireplace • Gift Making • Snow Day! Hearth Cooking for Families • Gingerbread Cookie Decorating • Baking in the Beehive Oven • Horse-drawn Wagon Rides • Supper at the Hall Tavern: Special Evening Class Fashioning a Legacy: The 50th Anniversary of the Helen Geier Flynt Textile Gallery Girl Scout Badge Days (January – December) • Pottery Badge for Brownies (November) Winter Lecture Series: Textiles and Fashion • Hearth Cooking for Scouts (January) in Early America • Textile Artist Badge (February/March) • Playing with the Past Badge (April/May) Friends of Historic DeerfieldAnnual Meeting

1948 The Ashley House opens as Historic Deerfield’s first museum 1945 house. Stebbins House, Hall Deerfield Inn purchased by the Tavern, Wilson Printing Office Flynts opened soon afterwards 1946 Allen House restored as Flynts’ Deerfield Home

10 1954 Historic Deerfield’s first Forum held

1952 1956 Historic Deerfield founded as Summer Fellowship Program for college The Heritage Foundation on students begins; it remains the premier pro- November 15 gram for preparing college undergraduates for careers in the museum field 11 1960 George Alfred Cluett Collection arrives at Historic Deerfield 1959 1961 Joseph Peter Spang appointed Parker and Russell Silver Shop Historic Deerfield’s first profes- opened sional staff member 12 Academic/Educational Programs • Novelties for Sweethearts and Wives: Early New England House Joinery Lacquerware, Fans, and Silver Symposium (July) • Chinese Textiles Road Scholar Program at Historic Deerfield: 600 Million Years of Natural History from Historic Deerfield Forum: Pillow Talk: Pangea to the Connecticut River Valley (July) Discovering Early New England Bed Road Scholar Program at Historic Deerfield: Chambers (April) Stimulating Beverages: The History of Tea, Coffee, and Chocolate in Early America School Programs (September) • 18th-Century Deerfield Free Teacher Day (September) • Colonial Life Long Ago Historic Deerfield Decorative Arts Forum: • Tea and Revolution Borrowing from Antiquity, Designing a • A Day in a One-Room Schoolhouse New Republic: Neoclassicism in America • The Apprentice’s Workshop (November) • Homeschool Harvest Day Deerfield-Wellesley Symposium: Outside the Gallery: Public Sculpture in New England (March)

Museum Course: Decorative Arts in the China Trade (March) • Merchants and Mandarins: An Overview of Western Commerce in 18th and 19th- Century China • China for the West: Chinese Export Porcelain

1965 Helen Geier Flynt Fabric Hall opens 1963 1967 Wells-Thorn House restored and Utility poles removed from The opened as a museum Street; power lines buried to pre- serve village ambience 13 Recent Acquisitions

Candlesticks Made by John Coney (1655/6-1722) Engraved on the lower edge, “Ex dono Pupillorum [the gift of the students] 1716” Boston, Massachusetts, 1716 Silver Gift of Henry N. Flynt, Jr., in tribute to his father Henry Needham Flynt, 2015.21

The Harvard College class of 1716 commissioned these candlesticks, made by Boston silversmith John Coney, for Henry Flynt (1675-1760), the venerable and long-serving Harvard College tutor. Traditionally students contributed funds for these tutorial gifts as partial compensation when they concluded their studies. Flynt’s long tenure at Harvard resulted in his acquisition of a two-handled covered cup, tankard, porringer, teapot, coffeepot, and eventually a chamber pot. Tutor Henry Flynt’s brother was an ancestor of Henry N. Flynt, Sr., the founder of Historic Deerfield.

Cream pot Made by Pygan Adams (1712-1776) Engraved on belly “P/L K” New London, Connecticut, c. 1760-1765 Silver Gift in memory of Wilma Blanche Newton Russell (February 13, 1927 - September 6, 2011), 2015.18

Pygan Adams, a New London silversmith, was active in the local community. Adams served as a church deacon, participated in the militia and General Assembly, worked as a colony auditor and an overseer of the Mohegan Indians, and was involved in the building of the New London lighthouse in 1760. Since very few examples of his work survive, it has been speculated that he abandoned silversmithing midway in his career to pursue other interests. This cream pot descended in the family to the present day, and has a history of ownership by Luke Perkins (1696-1777) of Groton, Connecticut, and Kezia Green, (d. c.1792) of New London, Connecticut, who married on April 15, 1760.

1970 Memorial Libraries opened on May 22, 1970. Henry Needham Flynt dies on August 10 in Bay Head, New Jersey 1969 1971 Helen & Henry Flynt receive the National Trust for The Heritage Foundation becomes Historic Preservation’s Louise DuPont Crownin- Historic Deerfield, Inc. shield Award – the most significant tribute presented 14 in the field of American historic preservation Paint box Canton (Guangzhou), China, c. 1850 Lacquerware, brass, hard-paste porcelain, and paint Gift of the Estate of Compton Allyn, 2014.20.1

Most lacquerware furniture made in Canton, such as sewing tables, desks, card tables, gaming tables, or boxes, were copied from Western models sent to China. After constructing, painting, and priming the wooden core, Chinese artisans applied several layers of resin harvested from trees of the sumac family. This created a smooth, glossy, black surface on which artists painted gilded images inspired by Chinese life, landscape, and culture. The importation of lacquerware paint boxes is documented in the Connecticut River Valley as early as 1798.

Chocolate Pot England, 1730-1770 Copper, wood, tinned sheet iron, and tin lining Gift of Ray J. and Anne K. Groves, 2014.29.1

Chocolate, a popular breakfast beverage in early America, was often prepared using a copper chocolate pot like this example. Grated or scraped chocolate was placed in the pot with hot water, milk or wine, and then swiftly mixed together using the wooden mill. This example has a wooden mill with pierced, tinned sheet iron flanges for additional frothing action. Deerfield residents often enjoyed chocolate. In 1756, Elijah Williams purchased 40 pounds of chocolate at 10 shillings per pound from a Boston merchant.

1977 Allen House opened to the public on the occasion of Historic Deer- field’s 25th anniversary

1975 1979 Donald R. Friary named Execu- Deerfield Inn fire makes possible tive Director renovation and enlargement of the facility 15 Storage Jars London, England, ca. 1745-1755/ca. 1740-1760 Salt-glazed stoneware with iron oxide Gift of Hollis E. Brodrick, 2014.27.1,.2

These brown stoneware vessels are essentially gray-colored clay with a thin wash of iron oxide, a common technique on stoneware in England and parts of Germany. Storage jars of this type were made in the thousands and imported into America throughout the eighteenth century. They were intended to store liquid or dry foodstuffs such as pickles and flour. A similar jar to the example on the left was found at the Three Cranes Tavern site in Charlestown, Massachusetts, c. 1770, in the archaeology done for the Central Artery Project or “Big Dig.”

Map: A Correct Chart of the West India Islands Boston, Massachusetts, 1797 Paper, ink 2014.26

Engraved for the first American edition of John Malham’s Naval Gazeteer. Depicts the coasts of North America from Charleston, SC, to the Rio Grande, Mexico, Central America, northern South America, and the West Indies. Published by Spotswood & Nancrede, Boston.

1984 Williams House opened to public as restoration in progress 1981 1986 Philip Zea begins 18 year tenure Helen Geier Flynt dies on April on the Curatorial staff 10 in Greenwich, Connecticut

16 Tall Case Clock William Lloyd, Springfield, Massachusetts, 1803 Cherry, eastern white pine, sumac, birch, iron, bitumen, enamel Museum Collections Fund with Support from the Von Hess Foundation, 2015.17

This tall clock with case inscribed by Springfield, Massachusetts, cabinetmaker William Lloyd (1779-1845) in 1803 has an 8-day brass movement with rack and snail strike mechanism, separate second hand, and enameled sheet iron dial. The case is made of cherry, eastern white pine, sumac and birch. The bonnet is embellished with fretwork of unique, exuberant design. The rays of the patera—the oval sunburst motif—inlaid on the waist door and the lozenge decorating the skirt are tipped with small round insets filled with bitumen, a malleable black tar-based material used to imitate ebony.

1990 Historic Deerfield helps found The Deerfield Land Trust 1991 Moors House acquired by Historic Deerfield

17 The DeerfieldCollectors Guild

This year witnessed the formation of the The second was the Hoyt-Hitchcock Deerfield Collectors Guild whose mission Chest of Drawers, acquired at auction is to acquire important Deerfield objects on January 25, 2015. The chest is one that might otherwise escape preservation. of three commissioned by Deerfield Collectors Guild membership dues go resident David Hoyt for his daughters, towards building a fund to help the Persis, Mercy, and Mary—probably as a Museum purchase “Tier One” objects, wedding gift. All three chests survive: those made or owned on The Street in Persis’s chest is owned by Memorial Deerfield. Since its inception in September Hall Museum in Deerfield, and Mary’s 2014, the Collectors Guild has grown to is owned by Historic Deerfield. It is nearly 60 members and has helped bring a real triumph to bring Mercy’s chest two substantial pieces of history back to – the third and final – back home! Deerfield. The Museum features it in the North Chamber of the Sheldon House, where The first acquisition was the Saxton Family Mercy’s sister Persis may well have Desk and Bookcase, built around 1790, enjoyed her own scallop-top chest. acquired in December 2014. The object has a clear history of descent in the family Anyone interested in joining the of Deerfield shoemaker David Saxton Historic Deerfield Collectors Guild (1734-1800), who built the salt-box house to help the museum acquire and on Town Lot 1 across from Frary House/ preserve important objects and Barnard Tavern. David Saxton’s wife, artifacts should contact Director of Rebecca Barnard (1728-1805) was the Development David Barclay at (413) sister of Salah Barnard (1725-1795), who 775-7177, or at dbarclay@historic- lived in Frary House and built the tavern deerfield.org. wing. Historic Deerfield plans to install the Saxton desk and bookcase in the restored Barnard Tavern.

2000 The Deerfield Land Trust saves the 1,000th acre of town farmland during its anniversary year 1998 2002 Flynt Center of Early New Eng- Historic Deerfield celebrates its 50th land Life opens featuring major anniversary exhibition galleries and expanded 18 public program space 2011 Tropical Storm Irene causes devas- 2003 tating flooding of which Deerfield Philip Zea becomes President of Inn is a victim. Damage leads to Historic Deerfield, Inc. renovation and renewal. 2004 Tercentenary observance of the 1704 French and Indian Raid on Deerfield 19 Highland Street Foundation Enlists Historic Deerfield for “Free Fun Fridays”

On August 15, 2014, Historic Deerfield participated in its first “Free Fun Friday” event, attracting nearly 800 people to the village for a free day of fun activities at the museum. The event, sponsored by the Highland Street Foundation of Newton, Massachusetts, was an initiative started in 2008 in an effort to introduce Massachusetts residents to museums and cultural organizations across the state - each Friday from the end of June through August, featuring different sites open to the public free of charge. In total, more than 60 organizations participated. Historic Deerfield was selected by the Highland Street Foundation as an important site to include and was invited to submit a proposal for financial support for the event.

The day of the event saw the museum open its historic houses for tours, demonstrations by the Society of the 17th Century, our open hearth cooks, a spinning bee on the Dwight House lawn, and powder horn carving at the Flynt Center of Early New England Life. Despite an unusually cold August day, Bart’s Ice Cream truck provided treats for visitors. Several popular attractions included the Wapping School House and face painting for our younger visitors.

The event was beneficial for Historic Deerfield, bringing exposure as an important cultural site in Massachusetts, and also opening our doors to new audiences who may not normally have an opportunity to visit the museum.

2013 Deerfield Inn and Champney’s Restaurant and Tavern reopen following 18 months of renovation and restoration following damage from Tropical Storm Irene. 2012 2014 Historic Deerfield celebrates Historic Deerfield is featured loan 60th anniversary exhibition at the Philadelphia Antiques Show 20 2015 Historic Deerfield launches 5-year Strategic Plan

21 Ongoing Funding Priorities

• Outright contributions of cash or Preservation Projects—$100,000. We seek preservationists to help fund appreciated stock, including multi- ongoing historic preservation of the year pledges of support museum’s houses, other structures, • Bequests and in-kind gifts to and objects in the collection. Named the collection endowment funds of $100,000 or more • Gifts providing lifetime income will help assure the preservation of specific to donors or others the donor names historic properties in perpetuity. called life-income vehicles, including Charitable Gift Annuities and Charitable Remainder Trusts Public Historian—$2.4 million. We seek to endow the Museum’s resident academic leader position—Historic For more information on giving Deerfield’s Public Historian—who serves priorities, methods of giving, and as an Adjunct Professor of History at the recommended language for testamentary Five Colleges and oversees the Summer gifts, please be in touch with: Fellowship Program in Early American History and Material Culture, the Historic David H. Barclay, Deerfield-Wellesley College Symposium Director of Development in Early American History and Material ( 413) 775-7177 Culture, the summer lecture series, staff [email protected] research, and college field visits.

Methods Historic Deerfield is fortunate to have many benefactors committed to the preservation of the cultural heritage of Deerfield and western New England. Their generous support takes the form of:

22 Report of the Vice President for Business Affairs

Maintaining the buildings and grounds The Deerfield Inn and Champney’s of Historic Deerfield remains a challenge Restaurant and Tavern successes for the with limited resources. However, with a year are as follows: dedicated staff and an operating budget of • A new chef, who is professional, $806,398, there were some new initiatives. passionate and knowledgeable, was Just two of those are: The number of hired. In a few short months, the buildings that are painted annually quality and presentation has been increased to seven compared to three or raised to a new level. four in prior years, and the plan to change • A program was implemented to all lighting to LED continues at a good quantify guest satisfaction. pace. • A training program on Champney’s Restaurant style of service and The Museum Store sales increased 10% customer service continues with over the prior year. The Store implemented all staff. an ongoing honey tasting. Customers have • Social media marketing expanded, enjoyed many flavors from various areas with a goal to increase occupancy of the U.S. Although the turnover of books and raise the return on investment is always a success, the Store increased for the inn and restaurant, has been book sales by offering sensational museum successful. related books at discount. • The Inn was recognized by Yankee Magazine in the Editor’s Pick as Best 19th-century Inn in New England.

23 Consolidated Statement of Operating Statement Financial Condition July 1, 2014 to June 30, 2015 At June 30, 2015 Revenue, Gains and Other Support Assets Museum admissions $ 110,164 Current Assets Other museum related 134,744 Cash and equivalents $ 397,705 Academic program income 9,300 Accounts receivable 11,322 Museum Store sales 321,980 Gifts and grants receivable 30,565 Deerfield Inn 2,307,243 Inventories 410,179 Rent 182,298 Prepaid expenses 79,632 Gifts and Grants 899,434 Donations of property and Total Current Assets $ 929,403 museum collections 2,067 Net investment income 895,304 Investments, net of loan of $2,789,108 $ 55,030,826 Net realized gain on investments 1,666,752 Property and equipment, net 11,370,970 Increase (Decrease) in unrealized Other assets 311,668 appreciation on investments (4,113,326) Total Assets $ 67,642,867 Gain on disposal of equipment 1,380 Miscellaneous income 10,130 Liabilities Change in value of charitable Current Liabilities remainder trust 768,431 Accounts payable and accrued liabilities $ 844,698 Change in value of trust 171,890 Deferred revenue 0 Total Revenue, Gains and Current portion of debt 101,500 Other Support $ 3,367,791 Total Current Liabilities $ 946,198 Expenses and Losses Long term debt $ 632,795 Museum Operations $ 871,802 Deferred compensation 45,000 Museum Education 481,898 Annuities payable 19,020 Academic programs 120,223 Total Liabilities $ 1,643,013 Library 177,755 Special Events 30,156 Net Assets Rental operations 122,183 Unrestricted $ 25,812,219 Properties maintenance 684,215 Unrestricted - board designated 329,157 Administrative and general 1,698,795 Temporarily restricted 28,232,788 Inn adminstrative support services 98,019 Permanently restricted 11,625,690 Development 309,887 Marketing 325,970 Total net assets (deficit) $ 65,999,854 Visitor services 34,636 Museum store cost of sales and expense 361,145 Total liabilities and net assets (deficit) $ 67,642,867 Deerfield Inn 2,506,536 Total Expenses and Losses $ 7,823,220

Revenue (under) over expenditures and changes in net assets $ (4,455,429) Net assets at beginning of year 70,636,161 Net assets before changes related to collection items not capitalized 66,180,732 Changes in net assets related to collection items not capitalized: (180,878) Net assets, end of year $ 65,999,854

24 Summary Operating Statements July 1, 2014 to June 30, 2015

2012 2013 2014 2015 Income Museum Operations $ 3,438,909 $ 3,244,450 $ 3,559,087 $ 3,666,700 Museum Gift Shop 241,617 246,702 294,250 321,980 Deerfield Inn 288,648 806,236 2,205,467 2,284,353 Business Interruption Proceeds* 510,834 0 0 0 Total Operating Income 4,480,008 4,297,388 6,058,804 6,273,033

Expenses Museum Operations $ 3,171,822 $ 3,359,325 $ 3,611,894 $ 4,477,848 Museum Gift Shop 250,045 275,363 282,049 349,306 Deerfield Inn 769,101 1,079,508 2,105,253 2,286,575 Total Operating Expenses 4,190,968 4,714,196 5,999,196 7,113,729 Operating Profit (Loss) Before Depreciation 289,040 (416,808) 59,608 (840,696) Depreciation Expense 470,075 532,357 584,369 584,889

Net Operating Surplus (Deficit) $ (181,035) $ (949,165) $ (524,761) $ (1,425,585)

Highlights of the financial position of Historic Deerfield are as follows:

• The endowment supported 42% of the operating costs. • The draw for operations was 5.1% of the endowment market value. • Unrestricted and restricted gifts and grants supported 7.7% of museum operations.

25 Contributors to Historic Deerfield

American Builder’s Companion Gregory J. Perrotti and Life Members Asher Benjamin Society $2,000-$4,999 Susan D. Presutti Anonymous (1) Anthony and Carol Berner Elizabeth R. Rea Mimi Adler The Asher Benjamin Society, Lawrence Conklin Peter and Maria Rippe Nancy and James Andre established in 1987, recognizes David and Molly Dye Charles and Anne Schewe Mr. and Mrs. Peter C. Andrews members making annual gifts at Lynda and Peter Hotra Alice N. Smith Jonathan and Kathy Ashley the leadership level to support the Stephen Kaloyanides Ellen M. Snyder-Grenier Philip Ashley full range of Historic Deerfield’s Katie McCurdy James F. Stebbins Mr. and Mrs. Edwin H. Atwood III preservation, research and Edward Y. Reid and Lester J. Bartson Elizabeth Stillinger Mr. and Mrs. Roger O. Austin education activities. Asher Benjamin Porter and Mary Wheeler Sheila Stone Deborah E. Babson (1773-1845) was one of America’s William and Gretchen Viall Louis C. Baker most influential architects during Country Builder’s Assistant Kenneth and Louise Williamson Nancy H. Bartels the early 19th century. Categories $1,000-$1,999 Charles Wood and Mardges Bacon Mr. and Mrs. Curtis L. Blake for support are named for Asher David and Lynn Barclay Philip and Betsy Zea Susan Blake Benjamin’s three popular pattern James and McKey Berkman Franci Blassberg and Joseph Rice books, the first of which was William C. Blanker Rebecca Bounds and Steven Warnecke published in nearby Greenfield, Friends of Charlotte E. Bourhis Elizabeth R. Bramwell Massachusetts, in 1797. Historic Deerfield Edson L. Bridges II Dr. Ogden B. Carter, Jr. Daniel and Nannie Brown The members of the Friends of Ralph F. Colin, Jr. The Architect $10,000+ Richard W. Cheek Historic Deerfield support all Mr. and Mrs. Robert F. Dalzell, Jr. Lawrence and Jane Caldwell Ralph F. Colin, Jr. aspects of museum operations with Mary Dangremond Henry N. Flynt, Jr. Linda G. Conway their unrestricted gifts. Special Mr. and Mrs. John H. Davis Joseph P. Gromacki John and Virginia Demos categories include Library and Bed Kelly and Charlie DeRose Anne K. and Ray J. Groves Ruah Donnelly and Steve Dinkelaker and Breakfast memberships, which Peter and Florence DeRose Joseph Peter Spang III Joe and Nancy Durham include guest cards that can be used Mr. and Mrs. Michael D. Dingman William and Suzanne Flynt for general admission for library Practical House Carpenter Charles L. Dougherty Marilyn Forke $5,000-$9,999 patrons and B&B guests, a Deerfield Mary Maples Dunn and Stephen and Carol Gehlbach Anonymous (1) Descendants affiliate membership, Richard S. Dunn Dr. Philip O. Geier III and Amy Geier Nancy and John Barnard which recognizes Friends who trace Mrs. Douglas C. Elder Karl and Mary Jo Gimber Fraser Bennett Beede their ancestry to Deerfield, and a Eleanor W. Ensign James Hardigg Franci Blassberg and Joseph Rice Corporate Membership program Cathleen C. Esleeck Margaret E. C. Howland Lane W. Goss which provides opportunities for Betty Evans L. Michael Moskovis and Ingrid and Donald Graham local business leaders to support Susan T. Flaccus Dorothy Jean Selinger Barbara James and Peter Schelfhaudt the museum while providing their Richard Gilder Jane and Richard Nylander James Muir, Jr. employees with access to Historic Philip and Nancy Greer Duane A. Orloske and Lindsay and David Ormsby Deerfield’s rich collections. Anne K. and Ray J. Groves Kate O’Brien Orloske Anna and Neil Rasmussen Matt and Julie Groves Robert and Elizabeth Owens Mr. and Mrs. Philip G. Groves Ticia Kane and Peter Healey

26 Mr. and Mrs. George Kennedy Gerald Mingin Family David and Miriam Finkelstein Thomas Curren and Mr. and Mrs. John J. Kenney William L. and Jean Mitchell Cynthia Flynt and David Kriegel Katherine Neustadt Frederick A. Klingenstein David and Barbara Roby Juliet G. Flynt Jerry E. Dalton John and Patricia Klingenstein William and Tracy Veillette Greg and Paula Gimblette Deborah Dearborn Mr. and Mrs. David H. Koch Don Madden Dr. John P. and Lis Doley Iona W. Lincoln Associate $250 Mark D. Marshall and Helen O. Leung James M. and Betsy Douglas Josephine P. Louis Neal Abraham and Donna Wiley Scott Norris Ada Fan and Peter Warsaw James H. Lunt Cyndy and Len Alaimo Patricia A. Papini Charles and Charlotte Faulkner Mr. and Mrs. Peter S. Lynch Philip and Susan Bartels Richard and Marcia Starkey Mary A. Favreau Mr. and Mrs. Bruce G. Merritt Sally Carr and Larry Hannafin Brewster Sturtevant Dr. Philip R. and Adelaide B. Fazzone Pauline C. Metcalf Melody Ennis Dave and Pat Thomas Louisa Ferree Ruth Mott Charlotte K. Hyzer L. Emerson and Joanne H. Tuttle Mark Fiandaca James Muir, Jr. James and Nevitt Jenkins Gordy and Liz Van Guilder Clara Joe and Thomas Fisher William N. Myhre III Gail and Fred Kahn Marion von Heisermann Robert Flynt and Jeff McMahon Mr. and Mrs. Roger B. Parsons Scott and Gladys Macdonough Edward Warren Paul L. Fredette Sumpter T. Priddy III Judith Markland and Joe and Dana Woody Dr. David L. and Ann H. Gaesser Mr. and Mrs. Edward V. Randall, Jr. William Saunders Roger E. Wyman Prof. Gene R. Garthwaite Sudie Schenck Julie Porter Jacqueline Goldman William Clarkson Schoettle Kenneth C. Ritchie Friend $100 Tracy Goodnow Janet Sheridan Jean and Joseph Ritok Anonymous (2) Brent and Serena Hall Joseph P. Spang III Arthur B. Robertshaw III Michael Ainslie John and Pam Hanold Joseph and Mary Clare Starshak Betty Stvan Mary F. Alderfer Eric and Dorothy Hayes Dr. and Mrs. Paul R.C. Sullivan Eric and Sarah Ward Mark Allen David and Rosanne Hermenze Stanley and Doris Tananbaum William Armitage and Bridgett Herzog Patricia Z. Tate Supporter $150 Desireé Caldwell Joseph and Lauren Hewes Dorothy Venter Anonymous (1) Nancy Auersperg Bonnie and Robert Hodge William M. Vickery Kaye Alderfer Laura Beach William A. Hosie and Mr. and Mrs. Richard R. Vietor Ted and Ann Barber Edward S. Belt Christin A. Couture Mary Wallach Georgia B. and James H. Barnhill Joseph and Barbara Blumenthal Gail and Ron Jackson John Paul Ware Eric and Katherine Baumgartner Don and Bea Bowman Dr. Julie Jonassen and Richard Rabe Mrs. Sue Ann Weinberg Raymond and Nancy Burke Richard and Diana Braman Amanda Kirk Elaine Wilde Thomas and Nancy Charkiewicz Carl and Mary Breyer Janice A. Kulig Eliza Childs and Will Melton Lucinda and Wesley Brown Sandra J. Law Patron $500 Caroline Dinsmore George P. and Trudi Calberg Cecilia and James C. Leonard III Anonymous (2) James A. Duncan Scott and Valerie Chaloud Catherine Linberg Sarah Brandon Bemis Anita and John Easter Jon Childs and Margaret Keller Steve and Nancy Linehan James L. Johnson Craig and Kathleen Farrow John and Nancy Chilson Nathan Liverant and Son, LLC Todd Keating and Debra Walker Charles and Linda Findlay John B. and Rebecca Crittenden Richard and Linda Lopatka Ann and Steven Lord Donna Lotuff

27 Contributors to Historic Deerfield

George and Tinka Lunt Joanne Webber and Robin Salmaggi Albert and Doreen Bushey Anne Farrow and Stephen Taylor Joan B. MacIver Susan Donoghue Weber Elizabeth Butler Quentin and Mary Murrell Faulkner Edward Martin Francis and Patricia Zak Jerrilee Cain Karl Ferguson William E. and Susan D. Martin Myra B. Carlow John and Ruth Fillo Gerald and Marilyn McAleavey Family $60 Cheri Casper Edwin and Angela Fischer Bruce and Barbara McRitchie Anonymous (3) John and Florence Chandler Lee and Dot Fisher Raymond F. Meisberger David Agro and Karen Shaw Surner Philip and Aggy Chase Robert and Michelle Fitzgerald Algird J. and Eugenia Mikolaitis Nicholas and Janelle Aieta Robert C. Cheney Richard G. Floyd, Jr. and Brenda Milkofsky Kimberly Alexander Robert and Jean Cherdack Shirley Mietlicki-Floyd Ellen and Clayton Miller Dean and Barbara Alfange Lorraine Clapp-O’Keefe George E. Foote and Jean L. Miller Douglas and Louise Allen Ann C. Clay Gwendolyn Ocoma-Foote Jeanne Troxell Munson and S. Wyndham and Huldah Anderson Bill Clements and Martha Yoder Paul and Lisa Foster Willard Munson Stephen Anderson Greg and Jenelle Close Imbi Fox Paul and Brenda O’Gara Carol D. Andrews Linda Smith Cohen Jenn Gagné William Owens Kevin Ayer and Cynthia Littlefield Joseph J. Coll, Jr. Donna-Belle and James Garvin Debra Paulsen William H. Bakeman, Jr. Robert and Eulalia S. Collins Wayne and Marilyn Gass Robert W. Paynter and Family Robert and Cynthia Barker Rachel Conrad and Thomas Rooney Gail and Fred Gersch Ted and Carole Pennock John and JoAnn Barrett Wendy and Timothy Cornwell Robert Glass and Susannah Landis Robert J. and Christine Petrocone Javan and Kelsey Bauder The Cote Family James P. Godfrey David and Nancy Pond Stephen and Donna Beaupré Susan Creighton James and Patricia Goode Theresa A. Quinn and Steven W. Beck Ann and David Crosier Spencer and Mark Gordon George Krasowski Dean and Noreen Bell Edward and Barbara Currie William and Claire Gray Wallis and Cornelia Reid Alexia Belperron Paul A. and Gail H. Cyr Arthur and Sally Gregg Brian D. and Jaqueline D. Rivard George and Barbara Bernier Richard C. Dabrowski Paula Gudell Barnes and Helen Riznik Marie-France Bernier Michael F. and Lisa Daigneau Everett and Nancy Haggett G. W. Samaha Family Charles J. Bernstein, MD Peter and Lee Daniello Else Hambleton Marion Sanford Michael and Carol Birtwistle Sonja Dean and Perry Cook Don Hamilton Allen J. Schaumburg Robert A. and Bernadette A. Boder Bill and Anne Dempsey Carl Hammer and Jona Hammer Dr. Robert and Elizabeth Ann Schmitt Elton D. and Judith W. Bohall Taryn Denette Lynn and Rick Harris Michael Schwartz Rosemarie Bonner Betty Di Francesco Jim and Lois Harris William and Nancy Sevrens Steven and Susan Boshi Nancy Donta James and Gerry Harvey Liz and Will Sillin Jennifer and Rodney Britt Dorfield-Polgar Family Robert E. Harwell, Jr. Stephen and Diane Smithers Al and Eldora Brogan Jennifer Drain James Hastrich and Linda LaRoche Alan and M. A. Swedlund Charles Brooks Susan Draves Marian Hazzard Robert and Barbara Sweeney Brouady Family Howard Drobner Laurie Heatherington and Keith Finan Chrysler Szarlan R. Glenn and JoAnn Brown Peter Dolson and Robert J. and Mary Lou Heiss Lawrence and Karen Tatro Aimee Brown Karen Emack-Dolson John and Jo-Ann Helbig George and Monica Vachula Joan Brownstein and Peter Eaton Thomas and Tania Evans Tamra Hersh Jonathan and Priscilla Vincent David and Monique Brule Christine Everett Glenn and Lara Hillman

28 Elizabeth Hodges Joe and Chris Maday Lisa and Stephen Pearson Vicki Smith and Arleen Kozakc Terry Holcombe John and Jan Maggs Mary Ann T. Pease Sonya R. Sofield Lesley B. and Joseph C. Hoopes, Jr. Jon and Nancy Magnuson Robert and Sharon Pellerin Karen Solon Allison Roberts Hopkins Eugene F. and Joann M. Maleski Marcia Pendleton Peter Bubriski and Richard Spalding Sterling and Margaret Hopkins Mary-Elizabeth Manz and Gary and Carol Perman Irwin and Martha Spiegelman Ronald and Marilyn Houseman Leslie H. Brown Marc and Kim Peterson Jean and David Spoolstra Stephen and Carol Huber Greg and Carolyn Mayo-Brown Barbara Petit Burgess P. and Caroline D. Standley Richard Huck John and Linnea McAllister Christopher and Ellen Pile Janice and Rob Starkey Camilla and Richard Humphreys Gordon and Sandra McCurdy Patrick Pinnell and Kathleen Curran Robert Stockton Robert and Sara Hunt Dr. Edmund R. and Patricia McGrath Mary Pollock William D. Stroud III David and Jeanette Ilett Alfred and Betsy McKee Maribeth Bernardy Pomerantz Rick and Mary Thayer Edward and Arlene Ingraham W.B. McKeown and Constance Coles John Poole Lowell and Johanna Thomas Paul C. Jablon Jeffrey and Robin Meek Claudia and Larry Powell Judith and Jack Thornton, Jr. Bruce Jacobsen James Meltzer and Cynthia Amidon Pierre Pureur and Kathy Gurlides Richard and Susan Todd Peter and Katherine James Barbara Metzger and Dave Malyja Alyssa and Bill Rainford Glenn and Meredith Tonnesen David James Susan Mickiewicz Bruce and Janet Rasmussen Kathleen and Peter Van Demark Patricia Jamrog Holly Miller and Peter Gallagher Jim and Charlotte Ray Richard and Mara Veronesi Bonnie and Will Johnson Shawna Miller Rosamond and Fred C. Rea Steve Volpini and Janet Hiller Ellen Johnson Kimberly A. Moniz Pamela Reeser Gary von Bieberstein Jerard and Pat Jordan Robert and Susan Moore Amelia Z. Reilly Paul D. and Lynn Waehler William Jordan Jeff Morgan and Jan Hargis Tim Relyea Douglas and Jean Walsh Jim and Stephanie Jozefowicz Hatsumi and Jack Moss Paul J. Ring Elaine Walsh Greg and Deb Jurek Cynthia Murray Jessica Rivera Gerald and Barbara Ward David and Sue Kaczenski David and Muriel Nachman Katherine A. Robertson and Michael Ward and Doug Lyman Stephen and Madeleine Kaduboski Drs. Ladimer and Anna Nagurney William Sheehan Leslie and Peter Warwick Jonathan and Janet Kastberg Stephen J. Neal Lois Rosenbloom Carol Wasserloos and Peter Allison James and Pat Kehoe Sarah Neely and Susan Riter Sharon and Richard Roth Glenn and Maria Weeks Alice M. Kells Peter Neff Sandra L. Rux and Alan Haesche Kevin and Beth Weinman Jan R. Kerber Arthur Neipp James and Joanna Schoff Jan Weisblat David and Barbara Krashes James Nelson Frank Schwerin and Marge Michalski Cecily and David Wernick Barbara Kreisler Gary and Dee Dee Niswonger Robert Seeman Anne and Donald Wheelock Alison and Bruce Kriviskey William and Melanie Nivison Don and Lisa Senger Jon W. Williams John and Karen LaFleur Carol Norton Neil Shea Richard R. and Elizabeth B. Williams Jim and Lisa Lamoureux John Nove Jonathan Shefftz and Andrea Newman Julia Williams and Daniel Minuchin Sally and Linda Leed Maryann O’Connell Sarah and Keith Shields Kenneth Williamson Ross Levett Frederik Schockaert and Saul Olyan Dorothy Shippee Nancy Wilson and Jerry Axelson Richard A. Lewenczuk Gerard and Anne Paquin Dana and Heidi Shoaf Richard and Carole Wolfe David B. and Barbara J. Lindsay Lloyd Parrill Paula and Steve Silva Lora Wondolowski Alison and John MacKinnon Drs. Michael and Suzanne Payne Karl and Elizabeth Sladek Charlie and Merrie Woodworth

29 Contributors to Historic Deerfield

Craig Wray Judith Cmero Amy Finkel Susan Jones Robert Mugar Yacubian and Brenda M. Cole Lillian B. Fiske Sara D. Jonsberg Richard L. Weil, Jr. Carolyn and David Collette Joseph E. Flanagan, Jr. Helen Christine Jost Lee W. Yaros Elizabeth Colley Ann M. Floyd Karin Sprague Stone Carvers, LLC. Richard and Sandra Young Ryan Conary Elizabeth M. Foisy Emily Keith Rhoda and David Yucavitch Kathleen Connor-Kirshbaum Ellen Foley Seth Kelley Megan Zelms Robert O. Corcoran Dr. Ross Fox Robert M. Kelly Donna R. Courchaine Nancy Helen Fritz Diane E. Kelton Individual $40 James T. Curran Sylvia Smead Gallagher Peter Kendall Anonymous (6) James Daley Joanne M. Garland Patricia Kennedy Robert Adam Robert Daniello Katherine Garland Fred Kerzner Dr. Tundi Agardy Alan Dann and Deirdre Donaldson Barbara P. Garnier Charlotte M. Klamer Paul W. and Sandra Allen Mary Jane Dapkus Ruth Garrett W. A. Klinger, Esq. Edward D. Andrews Sylvia Davenport Gina Gerhard Janet Kraft George Ashley Anne S. Davidson Jeffrey Goodhue Legler Kathryn R. Kramer Douglas Arms Bacon and Meredith Davies Marion Griswold Betty W. Lange Anne Marie McGarry Nancy Davies Christine Clapp Guyette Anne D. Lanning John Baroody Sheryl and John De Jong Patsy Hall Ivana M. Liebert Rebecca Barton Lawrence A. Dean Mary Hancock Elizabeth Lloyd-Kimbrel Phyllis M. Berman and Larry S. Rivais John DeLoge Amelia M. Harrington Joan and Sara Long Lisa Bertoldi Michael P. DeNoi June Harris Albert and Tessa Louer Louise Bloomberg Margherita M. Desy Chris Harris Kathryn Lussier Janet Blyberg Francine and David DiLisio Jill Harrison Sarah S. Mager Brent Bonfiglio Rev. Charles J. DiMascola Virginia M. Hatch Stephen C. Major Mr. Paul Boudreau Anne M. Dorman Rebecca Hendricks Susan Mareneck Susan O. Bowman Jonathan Dowling Michael Hingston Frederick A. Martin Rev. and Mrs. Kenneth Boyle Sarah Doyle Barbara Horan Erik A. Mason Pamela Boynton Stacy Pomeroy Draper David Hosmer Gerald and Barbara Matacotta Robert K. Brown John P. Dumville June Houghton Kathryn A. McArthur Deborah Burrows Jeanne Dunn Linda Howard Edward McCabe Edward Leslie Byrnes Robert C. Duval Dorothy N. Huber Patricia M. McChesney Richard M. Candee Stephen Earp Frank Huck and Natalie Anne Huck Brenda McCumber Wayne and Genevieve Chartier A. Roger Ekirch Jane Hugenberger Ruth McDowell Marjorie S. Childers Valija Evalds Tilda Hunting Patricia and Grant McGiffin Robert P. Chorney Leslie Evans Amanda Isaac Windy McGlinsky Cheryl L. Christian Gerald E. Farrell, Jr. Amy Cole Ives Nancy J. McIntire James A. Ciaschini William J. Fennessey Richard Jacobson Michael B. Melanson Mitchell Cleveland Robert and Mary Feuer Lois Jacubetz C. J. Menard J. Nathan Clewell William Finch Joy Mercer

30 Helen Middleton R. H. Russell Dwight L. Watson Suzanne and Mark Haselkorn Rebecca Migdal David J. Russo Elizabeth E. Webber Edward and Elizabeth Kipp Mary S. Miller Suzanne Ryan Ron Welburn Roland A. Labine, Jr. Rick Miller John Salem Ruth Welds Deborah and Arthur Langner Susan Millinger Susan and Hank Samoriski Lee-Ann C. Wessel John A. Nadeau Carol and Michael Moehlman Ellen Schulten Judy Wolter David A. Nims Gilles Morin Robert Scull Ann L. Wood Donna Nowak-Scobelli Marilyn Munn Barbara Shaw Barbara M. Wroblewski Francis and Dorothy Robinson Francis Murphy Dorothy V. Shea Isabelle Little Wyman Commander and Mildred H. Myers Robert Shilkret Peter L. Yeager Mrs. Richard Siemens Terrence S. Norwood Sylvia J. Sillers Sally Zimmerman Judi and Larry Smith Eileen O’Brien Lou and Patricia Silver Dorothy and George Stone Stephen V. O’Donnell Jr. Robert and Sharon Smith Deerfield Descendant Don Olson Robert and Lois Sommer Individual $55 Robert W. Orr, Jr. Dorothy Speak Associate $265 Anonymous (1) David Ottinger Susan Spencer Linda Nelson Walsh William B. Allen John W. Owen Laura F. Sprague William E. Barnard Irene Pace Emily J. Stahler Supporter $165 Raymond and Diane Barsa Marie Panik John E. Stauffer Harvey L. Howell Barbara and C. Erwood Brown Gerard and Anne Paquin Hannah Stevens Sue Browning Michael A. Pare Sally Elizabeth Stocking Friend $115 John and Leila Carlo Elaine G. Parmett Harold and Laura Stuart Walter and Elaine Ensign Susan L. Clasen David Paukett Carol Sundermeier Lille Foster Fred and Catherine Clay James A. Pequet David Svoboda John and Lauryn Levesque Michael Corrigan Martha E. Pinello Peter and Carole Szatkowski Dennis and Meryl Lutz Frederick Goodhue Annemarie Poole Andrea Szylvian Craig Mosier II Lewis Harris, Jr. Mary Jane Porter Mrs. Frederick J. Talasco Grace and Francis Smead Anne C. Henninger G. Roger Poynton Robert Tarule Linda and Douglas Wood Laurie Holtan Jane Griswold Radocchia Lourana and Charles Thomas Rebecca Hoskins Gertrude E. Ralph Karen Townsend Family $75 Diana Dahill James Alicia Ralph Barbara Trautlein Megan and Michael Adams Peter M. King Susanne G. Ray Gwendolyn Trelle Robert C. Justina F. Dodge Marisa Kocum Stephanie and James Recore Joan C. Vander Vliet Nancy and Joe Durham Marya R. Martinell Harry C. and Jennie May Rehnberg Ted Vasiliou Evelyn E. and Robert M. Eisenhard Claire Miller George Reitmeier James J. and Cynthia Vibert Martin Favor William E. Miller Patricia Rice Stephen H. Waite Dwight and Mary Fitch Norene Roberts Susan Waksmonski Steve and Tricia Frary David W. Rosenberger Mary Ward Brooke Harlowe Christine Roy Warwick Carpenters Co.

31 Contributors to Historic Deerfield

Wendy Pribbanow Library $100 Gifts of $1,000-$2,499 Eileen A. Reddy Agawam Public Library Gifts of Memberships Nancy and John Barnard Jack H. Seeley Athol Public Library Anthony and Carol Berner Anne Selden Belding Memorial Library The following individuals gave an Daniel P. and Nannie T. Brown Jann A. Smith Brooks Memorial Library Historic Deerfield membership as Lawrence H. Conklin a gift. Patricia J. Stebbins Chatham Public Library Linda G. Conway Nancy and John Barnard Charlotte J. Yarwood Cheshire Public Library David and Mary Dangremond Janet Blyberg Chicopee Public Library Deborah Dearborn Elton D. Bohall Corporate Patrons Edwards Public Library Peter and Florence DeRose Peter Daniello Emily Williston Memorial Library David and Molly Dye Susan Draves Corporate Patrons $1,000 Forbes Library Karl and Mary Jo Gimber Karen Gorter Yankee Candle Company Friends of Kent Memorial Library Tracy Goodnow Lane W. Goss Pelican Products Friends of the East Lane W. Goss Doug Lyman Longmeadow Library Joseph P. Gromacki Karen Paulson Corporate Patrons $500 Friends of the Greenfield Public Frank L. and Kristin Hohmann Barbara Petit Florence Savings Bank Library Lynda and Peter Hotra Carol Potvin Eversource Friends of the Jones Ann and Steven Lord Miriam E. Richard Library System, Inc. Doug Lyman and Michael Ward Wilson H. Rider Bed and Breakfast $100 Friends of the Leverett Library Roger B. and Meredith Parsons Joseph P. Spang III Bela’s B & B Friends of the Manchester Gregory J. Perrotti and Luther Travis Brandt House Bed and Breakfast Public Library Susan D. Presutti Valerie Wiltberger Centennial House Bed & Breakfast Goodwin Memorial Library Edward V. and Sally Randall Bradley Woodward Country Cape Bed & Breakfast Grace Hall Memorial Library James and Robin Rawles Poetry Ridge B&B Granby Public Library Mary Sidney Treyz Sugar Maple Trailside Inn Hatfield Public Library Collectors Guild The House On The Hill Kinderhook Memorial Library Members Gifts of $500-$999 Bed and Breakfast Leicester Public Library Fraser Bennett Beede and Bob Beede Gifts of $5,000+ The Worcester House Meekins Public Library Richard and Betsy Cheek Hank and Nancy Bartels Bed and Breakfast Palmer Public Library James and Maria Coward Ray J. and Anne K. Groves Tibetan Inn of Deerfield S. White Dickinson Memorial Library John and Virginia Demos John and Judy Herdeg Warwick Free Public Library Wesley and Jeanne Fredericks Anna and Neil Rasmussen Organizational Patrons Wendell Free Library Ray K. Groves Joseph P. Spang III Westfield Athenaeum Michael Groves Family Association $100 Westhampton Public Library Barbara A. James and Gifts of $2,500-$4,999 Nims Family Association, Inc. Wheeler Memorial Library Peter Schelfhaudt Christina Groves James E. and Linda M. Johnson Dr. Paul Peters, Jr. and DeEtte Peters Historical Society $100 Barbara M. Jones Elizabeth Stillinger Conway Historical Society Todd Keating and Debra Walker Taylor Wagenseil Worthington Historical Society

32 John and Linnea McAllister Charles E. and Arlene Bellinger Richard S. Dunn Jim and Lisa Lamoureux Bruce G. and Valerie Merritt Grace Bergen Melody Ennis Larry and Marcia Leizure L. Michael Moskovis and Susan H. Bernardy Adelard and Princess Everton Cecelia James C. Leonard III D. J. Selinger Prof. and Mrs. Winfred E. A. Bernhard Gregory J. Farmer Dwight and Andrea Leveritt Christine Ritok Kathie A. Bickers John and Ruth Fillo Allen and Celia Lockerman Charles and Anne Schewe Britta L. Bloomberg Susan F. Foley J. M. and Edith Loening George E. and Dorothy S. Stone Robert T. and Carol J. Blouin Lauren Forrest John M. Lovejoy William A. and Gretchen E. Viall George and Cynthia Bluh Carolyn L. Frederick Eugene F. and Joann M. Maleski Porter K. and Mary T. Wheeler Virginia Bower Paul L. Fredette Philip W. Mancini Charles Wood III and Mardges Bacon Timothy and Bernadette Brady Nancy Helen Fritz Melissa and Andrew Marietta Philip and Betsy Zea Kathleen Kelly Broomer R. Andrew Garthwaite Mary C. Marsh Kristin Buchanan Brewster Gifford Brian Marsh Annual Fund Eleanor Byrne Andrea and David Gilmore Nadine P. Martens John and Leila Carlo Carol P. Gladden Gerald and Marilyn M. McAleavey Gifts of $500 and above Marianne V. Cattier Edward Woodworth Goss James Meltzer and Cynthia Amidon Sarah Brandon Bemis Robert L. Chamberlin Nicole B. Graves Mary Menssen Donna R. Courchaine Carlotta C. Chandler Maureen Gregoire Ron and Joyce Morgan Jerry E. Dalton Philip and Aggy Chase Marjorie H. Grout Mimi and Joseph J. Morsman III Peter and Katherine James Tara and Jason Chicirda Susan and Michael Gunn Bromley Barbara Moseley Gilbert K. McCurdy Austin Chinn Brent and Serena Hall Christopher G. Muenchinger Robert and Elizabeth Owens Mehmet Citlak Sharon L. Hart Thomas and Karen Munzel Gerard and Anne Paquin Nelson O. and Stephanie W. Clayton Abbie Hatton Francis Murphy Dr. Roderick D. Sage Bruce A. and Margaret Pillus Coats Jonathan and Bunny Healy Stephen J. Neal Alan Slack Jack D. Cobb Anne C. Henninger Shirley and Ralph Nelson William Upton Randel Mott Cobb Susie and George Henzie Gordon and Pamela Oakes William and Tracy Veillette Wendy and Timothy Cornwell Nancy and Kelly Hillenburg Valerie B. Oliver Kay Crofoot Edward and Arlene Ingraham Nancy P. Osgood Gifts Up to $499 Barbara L. Cummings John and Jeanet Irwin Patricia Ostwald Anonymous (1) Patricia A. Cunningham Peter K. Jameson Sherra Palmer Patricia and Bill Alley Tanya Cushman Thomas G. Jayne and Richmond Ellis Alice and Douglas Patton Richard P. and Janet Ames Valerie P. Dale Bonnie and Will Johnson Drs. Michael and Suzanne Payne S. Wyndham and Huldah Anderson Elizabeth W. DeNoyon Helen Christine Jost David Pesuit James C. Antone Kelly and Charlie DeRose Elaine Kachavos Patrick Pinnell and Kathleen Curran John M. Bacon Emily R. Dickinson-Adams and Kathleen M. Keroack Douglas Poole Jairus Barnes Roger G. Adams Todd M. and Debra A. Kmetz John and Helen Radavich Georgia B. and James H. Barnhill Nancy Donta Elizabeth Knight Lawrence and Cornelia Rea Joseph T. Bartlett, Jr. Bruce and Augusta Droste Bruce and Eleanor Knowles Eileen A. Reddy Lynne Zacek Bassett Jeanne Dunn Kowalski Family Edward Y. Reid and Lester J. Bartson Laura Beach Mary Maples Dunn and Gail Laird Lois E. Rohay

33 Contributors to Historic Deerfield

R. H. Russell Richard and Susan Wright Margaret E. C. Howland Laura Walton Mari Rutka Robert Mugar Yacubian and Richard Charlotte K. Hyzer John Wollschlager Patricia Brand Ryan L. Weil, Jr. Barbara James and Peter Schelfhaudt Roger E. Wyman Karl Sabo and Jane Howard Ellen M. Zale Brett Johnson

John and Karen Savage Constance H. Zea Nancy Kline George Sheldon Society Dr. Wynn A. and Elizabeth Sayman Nancy and Day Lee James and Joanna Schoff Ebenezer and Abigail Scott and Gladys Macdonough The George Sheldon Society Sue and Harry Sharbaugh Wells Society Don Madden recognizes those who have given Alice and David Shearer Lee Brian Magnuson gifts of objects to the Historic Deerfield collection and library Sylvia J. Sillers The Ebenezer and Abigail Wells Alfred and Betsy McKee during the fiscal year. Named Smead Family Association Society recognizes those living Mary M. Meese for George Sheldon of Deerfield, Stephen and Diane Smithers benefactors who have included Steven and Jane Miller the legendary historian and Anne and Gordon Stagg Historic Deerfield in their estate William L. and Jean Mitchell planning. Named for Ebenezer and preservationist of Deerfield, Burgess P. and Caroline Standley L. Michael Moskovis and Dorothy Abigail Wells of Deerfield, who in Massachusetts, this society aims Barbara L. Starkey Jean Selinger the 18th century made a bequest to recognize the many remarkable Richard and Marcia Starkey Stephen J. Neal of a silver tankard to the Deerfield contributions of individuals towards Evelyn Stewart Church. Their gift is on view in Jane and Richard Nylander historic preservation of this great William and Barbara Stoever the Henry N. Flynt Silver and Carol S. O-Brian place. Alan and M. A. Swedlund Metalware Collection. Duane A. Orloske and Beatrice Sweeney Kate O’Brien Orloske David C. Bosse Barbara A. Syer Anonymous (1) Roger B. and Meredith Parsons Hollis Brodrick Ross William Taylor Nancy and James Andre James A. Pequet Renee A. Busch Stephen A. Thatcher David and Lynn Barclay Madeline S. Powell Bill and Phyllis Canon Leslie L. Thomas Debora Blodgett and Bob Feltovic Sylvia S. Quinn Alice Carrier Elizabeth and Reginald Thors Edson L. Bridges II John and Helen Radavich Eliza Childs and Will Melton Karen Ulfers Patrick H. Butler III Edward Y. Reid and Lester J. Bartson Nelson O. and Stephanie W. Clayton Dorothy Venter Thomas Cholnoky David J. Russo Wendy Cooper Ian Vernes Donna R. Courchaine F. Henry Savage Pamela Cranston Terry Wakeman Karen L. Dunn Alice N. Smith Clinton J. Drake Jean F. Walshe Joe and Nancy Durham Joseph Peter Spang III Jane Ferguson Ann and Baxter Webb Cathleen C. Esleeck Dennis E. Stark and Marie Booth Ferré John and Shirley Wedge Ronald and Janet Evans Robert F. Amarantes William and Suzanne Flynt Francis and Patricia Whitcomb Henry N. Flynt, Jr. Brewster Sturtevant Dr. Ross Fox Marc and Tracy Whitehead Wendy and Stephen Gaal Joel H. Third William C. Garrison and David R. Whitesell Lane W. Goss E. Wayne Turner and Cynthia S. Dickinson Kemble Widmer Anne K. and Ray J. Groves Jean Pitman Turner Dorothy D. Gavin Wallace S. and Isabel Wilson William A. Hosie and Richard R. and Rosemary Vietor Greenfield Public Library Carol Wock Christin A. Couture Julia F. Walker and Richard F. Hein Anne K. and Ray J. Groves Joe and Dana Woody

34 William A. Hosie and Raymond and Diane Barsa Leslie L. Thomas In Memory of William H. Guthman Christin A. Couture Hank and Nancy Bartels David Weiner Elizabeth Stillinger Joan Pearson Watkins Trust Ross W. Beales Jr. Roger E. Wyman Amanda E. Lange Fraser Bennett Beede In Memory of Charles Hemminger Jessica Lanier Valerie K. and I. Townsend Burden III Special Purpose Gifts Helen Hemminger Longmeadow Historical Society Lawrence and Jane Caldwell Mr. and Mrs. Michael Ainslie In Memory of David Proper Ann and Steven Lord Linda G. Conway Deborah E. Babson John M. Bacon Alfred and Betsy McKee Carl and Mildred Darrow Dane Barclay Pauline C. Metcalf Anne S. Davidson Bruce Blake In Memory of Hubbard Smith National Gallery of Art Jeanne Dunn Mr. and Mrs. Curtis L. Blake Linda F. Smith John Nevison David and Molly Dye Noah and Barrie Blake Kate Reeves Ronald Fleming Susan Blake In Memory of Leo Vigneault Peter Rogatz Henry N. Flynt, Jr. Edson L. Bridges II Susan Diemand Suzanne and Neil Russell Wesley and Jeanne Fredericks Lourdes Fanjul Ellen M. Snyder-Grenier Karl O. and Mary Jo Gimber Anne K. and Ray J. Groves In Memory of Louise Williamson Joseph Peter Spang III Lane W. Goss Lynda and Peter Hotra Barbara L. Cummings Richard and Marcia Starkey Joseph P. Gromacki John G. Knight Wayne and Marilyn Gass Eve Stone Anne K. and Ray J. Groves Pauline C. Metcalf Mary Jo and Erik van der Kaay William Streeter Mark Hammerling Estate of Russell Ward Nadeau Ray Pieczarka and Charles Wood and Mardges Bacon Kathleen Hohlstein Estate of David R. Proper Madeleine Victor-Pieczarka Roger E. Wyman Frank Huck and Natalie Anne Huck Joseph P. Spang III In Memory of Mary C. Wolf Yale Divinity School Richard Jacobson Marian S. Wells Janet Debra Craine Warren C. Lane, Jr. Estate of Mary S. Zick Paul Cremo Rich Levine Special Benefactors Barbara L. Estrin H. Wayne and Ann S. McDonald Gifts in Honor or Memory Gene C. Gill Historic Deerfield is grateful to the Helen Middleton In Memory of Marguerite Allen Marcia Grand many friends and funders listed L. Michael Moskovis and Dorothy Terrence S. Norwood Janet Groth below. These donors have made Jean Selinger Margaret B. Howard especially generous gifts to support Ben Nahum In Memory of Hank Bartels Robert A. Levinson the museum and its programs, to Robert and Elizabeth Owens Lynda and Peter Hotra Mary Rose Main acquire objects, and make capital Pierre Pureur and Kathy Gurlides In Memory of Rebecca Bounds Andrew H. Mayer improvements. Douglas Rachlin Terrence S. Norwood Philip V. and Gertrude E. Ralph Joseph Peter Spang III Mary Close Oppenheimer Unrestricted Gifts Edward V. and Sally Randall, Jr. Joseph Peter Spang III Anonymous (3) Michael J. Russell In Memory of Mary Ames Flynt Alfred Strasser and Laurie Wilson Theodore S. Bacon, Jr. Thomas G. Schwenke Terrence S. Norwood Mara A. Williams and Ted and Ann Barber Joseph Peter Spang III Erwin and Jane Stuebner Thomas Hilsdon Nancy and John Barnard Holly and Jerome J. Suich II

35 Contributors to Historic Deerfield

Edwin and Catherine S. Wilson Summer Fellowship Program Gifts Steven and Jane Miller The Charles E. and Joy C. Pettinos Audrey Woods Jennifer Anderson Melinda Talbot Nasardinov Foundation Allison and Ginseng Balch Maribeth Bernardy Pomerantz Tudor Rose Sampler Guild In Honor of Donna Courchaine Jairus Barnes Debra A. Reid Susan W. Cox James S. and McKey Berkman Carol Reed Rigby Endowed Funds Deborah Binder and Gaetan Veilleux Margot Vaughan Riordan-Eva In Honor of Bill Flynt Britta L. Bloomberg Jan Seidler Ramirez Endowments Sheafe Satterthwaite Pat Boudreau Raymond Smith and Barbara Bank of America Lecture Fund In Honor of Joe Gromacki Charlotte E. Bourhis Quackenbush Barra Symposium Fund Barbara Fuldner Gretchen Townsend Buggeln Kim Lyman St. Charles Blake Meadow Walk Fund Patrick H. Butler III Charlotte L. Stiverson D. J. and Alice Shumway Nadeau In Honor of Lynda McCurdy Hotra Eleanor Byrne Lois and Jason Stoehr Fund for Preservation of the Katie McCurdy Richard M. Candee Linda Sturtz and James Robertson Collection Tara and Jason Chicirda John D. Tyler Director of Academic Programs Fund In Honor of Nims-Russell Family Lisa Compton Cathie Zusy Donald R. Friary Director’s Fund Michael J. Russell Karen Crenshaw and Jonathan Clunies Donald R. Friary Exhibition Carol Edwards DiGiovanni Foundation and Gallery Fund Corporate Sponsorships Amy Drake Government Grants Elizabeth Fuller Fund for Publishing Neuberger Berman Clinton J. Drake Fellowship Papers Schwenke Auctioneers Pierre and Julia du Prey Curtis and Patricia Blake Foundation Flynt/Proper Book Fund Skinner, Inc. Gregory J. Farmer E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Frary Collections Fund Emily and Richard Feldman-Kravitz Foundation Frederick Osborn and Flora Lund Matching Gift Companies Claire Erin Fraser Felicia Fund, Inc. Stebbins Conservation Fund General AETNA Foundation, Inc. Ronald W. Fuchs II Frary Family Association Endowment Bank of America Matching Robin H. Gabriel Greater Worcester Community George B. Cooper Book Fund Gifts Program J. Ritchie and Carla J. Garrison Foundation, Inc. Groves-Lythgoe Fund ExxonMobil Corporation Victoria and Matthew Gerard Helen Clay Frick Foundation Hall and Kate Peterson Fund for Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund Diane Hawkes Highland Street Foundation Minor Antiques General Society of Colonial Wars Peter B. Hirtle and Sarah E. Thomas Hyde & Watson Foundation Hall and Kate Peterson Fund for IBM Corporation Steven Skov Holt and Mara Holt Skov Institute for Museum and Library Paintings, Prints, Photographs, Pfizer Foundation Matching William Hosley and Christine Ermenc Services and Drawings Gifts Program Lynda and Peter Hotra Massachusetts Cultural Council Helen L. and William H. Bond Travelers Community Connection C. Anthony Junker National Endowment For the Curatorial Operations Fund UBS Matching Gift Program Jennifer Kalvaitis Humanities Janet G. Jainschigg Conservation Wellington Management Company, George and Elaine Keyes Richard C. Von Hess Foundation Fund LLP Matching Gift Program Anne McBride Society of Colonial Wars of the Jeptha H. Wade Endowment Fund Katherine Molumby McCarthy Commonwealth of Massachusetts Knight Educational Programs Fund Ann McCleary and Gregg Bussard General Society of Colonial Wars Mary Danielski Brooks Fund for Thomas S. Michie Library Acquisitions

36 Mr. & Mrs. Hugh B. Vanderbilt Fund Thomas McDonald Grayson Bowse for Curatorial Acquisitions Volunteers Ellen Melley Deb Burrows Oinonen Endowed Library Fund Kip Miskinis Judi Campbell Parsons Book Fund Historic Deerfield volunteers Melanie Nivison Bettyann Casella contribute many hours of service Permanent Endowment Fund Karen Pleasant Joanna Creelman each year in the administration Quinn Orloske Fund Trudy Ralph Karen Cullinane office, curatorial department, Robert and Martha Simms Alicia Ralph Sheila Dever library, education department, and Stephanie Recore Isabel Field Acquisitions Fund during special events. Their support Stebbins Book Fund is essential and Historic Deerfield David Rosenberger Alicia Graves Summer Fellowship Endowment Fund applauds them for their service. Diane Schlappi Brenda Hannon Susan A. Babson Fund for Children’s George Ashley Dorothy Shippee Elaine Higgins Programs Gigi Barnhill Dave Slivka Sarah Hollister Travel Fund Marie Bauman Kathleen Smith Kati Josephs Virginia Risley deCourcy Endowment Jeanne Sansbury Bell Emily Stahler Betty Karbon Fund for Fellowship Paul Berman Joan Vander Vliet Sue Keller William Randolph Hearst Endowed Rebecca Bounds Ann Wood Natasha Lowe Fund for Educational Programs Beverly Boykan Betsy Zea Tinka Lunt Joe Durham George Zimmerman Thomas Mershon Quasi-Endowments Nancy Durham Sadie Ross Anne K. Groves Acquisition Fund Bill Fennessey Wreath Making Volunteers Anne Schewe Every year, a team of volunteers Bounds-Warnecke Publications Fund Marie Ferré Maite Schmidt dedicates their time to make John W. and Christiana Batdorf Isabel Field Clarita Shaffer beautiful, hand-crafted natural Endowment Fund Scott Flynn Ann Sutliff wreaths for the doors of the houses Ruth Z. Temple Fund Amy Vickers Lynn Goodhue of Old Deerfield. Their efforts The Ray J. and Anne K. Groves Fund Laura Walton Pegge Howland help to bring a festive feel to The for Publishing Betsy Zea Shane Hammond Street during the holiday season. Brenda Hannon Our heartfelt thanks to this group Joyce Heywood for their creativity and sense of Historic Deerfield Jake Holmes community. Officers and Trustees Pat Jorczak Girl Scout Troop 11240 As of June 30, 2015 L’aura Jordan Sara Ardrey Rick Lopez Campbell Ardrey Officers Diego Lopez Hayden Ardrey Anne K. Groves, Chair Amaya Lopez David Barclay Joseph P. Gromacki, Vice Chair Lydia Lovett-Dietrich Kay Bardzik Lane Woodworth Goss, Arlee Lovett-Dietrich Jude Bishoff Treasurer John MacKinnon Amy Bowse Susan Martinelli, Assistant Susan Mareneck Lanie Bowse Treasurer

37 Trustees and Museum Staff

Joseph Peter Spang, Secretary Christine Ritok, Associate Curator Kimon Gregory Betsy W. McKee, Assistant Deerfield Heritage, Inc. Penny Leveritt, Visual Resources Barbara L. Hoadley Secretary Officers and Trustees Manager Nancy E. Howell Philip Zea, President Betteann Karpinski, Head Bonnie L. Johnson Deerfield Heritage, Inc. holds Housekeeper Brett Johnson Historic Deerfield’s charitable gift Trustees Susan B. Croteau, Housekeeping Peter M. King annuities and related assets. Anthony Berner Cheyenne L. Freyburgher, Todd M. Kmetz Daniel Putnam (Put) Brown, Jr. Housekeeping Barbara Koch As of June 30, 2015 Lawrence C. Caldwell Elaine Jarvis, Housekeeping Kara M. Leistyna John P. Demos Jeanne E. Jarvis, Housekeeping Edith N. Macmullen Officers Lane Woodworth Goss Elizabeth A. Phillips, Housekeeping Sarah S. Mager Philip Zea, President Joseph P. Gromacki Eileen C. Mahar David Barclay, Vice President Anne K. Groves Museum Education and Bruce G. Medley Susan Martinelli, Treasurer Lynda McCurdy Hotra Interpretation Peter S. Miller Barbara A. James Amanda Rivera Lopez, Director of Scott A. Norris Directors Ann W. Lord Museum Education and Terrence S. Norwood Edson L. Bridges II, Chair Steven H. Miller Interpretation Barbara Pelissier Charlotte Elizabeth Smith Lindsay W. Ormsby Claire Carlson, Education Program Denise Petrin Anne K. Groves Charles D. Schewe Coordinator Steven G. Randall Philip Zea Charlotte Elizabeth Smith Faith Deering, Educator Jacqueline Schonbrun Joseph Peter Spang Marcia J. Schuhle Staff of Historic Deerfield John Vander Sande Guides and Museum Aides Charlene Scott Lillian Miskinis, Visitor Services Amandus H. Sharbaugh Honorary Trustees Administration Manager Karen A. Shulda Henry E. Bartels Philip Zea, President Louella B. Atherton Carolyn G. Swinerton O. Stuart Chase Betsy McKee, Assistant to the Melinda Baker Richard Tillberg Mary Maples Dunn President and Office Debora Blodgett Mary Sidney Treyz Henry N. Flynt, Jr. Manager Joann B. Brown Laura Walton John A. Herdeg Barbara J. Goodhind, Receptionist Peter S. Lynch David P. Brule Louise H. Williamson Elizabeth Burns Ellen M. Zale Hon. J. William Middendorf Museum Prentice Crosier Jane C. Nylander Anne D. Lanning, Vice President for Cynthia D. Croteau Museum Attendants Hon. John D. Ong Museum Affairs Mary E. Douglas Sally Phillips, Lead Museum Roger B. Parsons Barbara Mathews, Public Historian Jeanne S. Dunn Attendant Joseph Hill Torras Julie Orvis, Coordinator of Special Audrey S. Farnum Donald Campbell Events Marie Ferré Julie A. Cunningham Amanda E. Lange, Director of the Erin E. Ferry Richard J. Grace Curatorial Department and Curator Joan Gabriel John C. Howell, Jr. of Historic Interiors Carol W. Gehlbach Willard M. Johnson David E. Lazaro, Collections Manager Frederick K. Goodhue Teresa R. McClelland and Associate Curator of Textiles

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Photo by Richard Cheek Stanley C. Neubert Winthrop Arms Rebecca L. Davidson, Server Albert T. Mosher IV, Bartender Ann Marie Ostrowski Michael Aubrey Denise Deangelis, Housekeeping Karl J. Mutchler, Line Cook Linda Siteman Edward A. Baranowski Rhamsses A. Diaz-Santiago, Server Carolyn M. Oates, Server Edward Smith Steven M. Brown Julie A. Dillon, Summer Intern Emily E. Olszewski, Hostess/Server Alayna M. Williams Carolyn Bruso Ryan M. Downie, Dishwasher Katarina Palso, Server John A. Carney Helen Dufresne, Front Desk Poliane V. Paniago, Server Library Kevin M. Connors Joseph Duncan, Bartender Lawrence J. Paradis, Maintenance David Bosse, Librarian and Joseph A. Corbeil Chase J. Eozzo, Lead Prep Cook Matthew S. Parady, Food Cart Cook/ Curator of Maps Walter J. Harubin David R. Ethier, Server Prep Cook Heather Harrington, Associate Jacob Holmes James O. Evans, Line Cook Tyrell C. Plumb, Dishwasher Librarian John Nawrocki Alexis B. Foley, Hostess/Server Carrie A. Purcell, Front Desk Lawrence Paradis Happy Frates, Bartender Erik A. Remick, Prep Cook Business Office William Robinson Andrew C. Gokey, Cook Alexis M. Reynolds, Housekeeping Susan Martinelli, Vice President for Melinda Shearer Mary Elizabeth Gorman, Team Joshua D. Rock, Sous Chef Business Affairs Gregory D. Wright Leader/Server David E. Rose, Dishwasher Doris A. Beaubien, Bookkeeper Ernest Zuraw Alicia L. Graves, Special Events Jasmine Serrano, Prep Cook Donna Bliss, Bookkeeper Eric J. Guzik, Server Andrew W. Seguin, Line Cook Anne M. Ciesluk, Bookkeeper Deerfield Inn Samuel A. Hartshorne, Dishwasher Jamie L. Spencer, Line Cook Brandy L. Patch, Bookkeeper Jane Howard and Karl Sabo, Nadia Hasan, Busser Nicole R. Stafford, Hostess Peter Tomb, Information Technology Innkeepers Sandra Herzig, Housekeeping Donald J. Sullivan, Dishwasher/Prep Manager Ameer Whitmyer, Chef de Cuisine Daniel Himmelstein, Dishwasher Cook Kathleen H. Childs, Pastry Chef Jonah G. Jensen-Camarata, Joanna Tan, Server Development Angela M. Aronson, Server Dishwasher Khalil Taylor, Housekeeping/ David Barclay, Director of Mark D. Bardwell, Bartender Jaclyn H. Kidd, Server Groundskeeper Development Stephanie A. Beck, Server Laura Koehler, Server Lisa M. Taylor, Housekeeping Bridgett Herzog, Associate Director of Jolina Rose Blier, Server Dylan L. Landry, Dishwasher Savannah M. Thornton, Busser/Server/ Development Zhanna Bocharnikova, Housekeeping Adam W. Lane, Line Cook Housekeeping Sarah M. Marrs, Development Matthew Bousquet, Line Cook Eric Lane, Line Cook Jonathan M. Viens, Server Coordinator Richard Buonaugurio, Line Cook Lynn-Marie Langevin, Server Shawn A. Walsh, Line Cook Jared Brothers, Dishwasher/Runner Kali Laraway, Bartender Leela Whitcomb-Hewitt, Server Marketing Kimberly Brothers, Housekeeping Jonathan A. Lattanzio, Kitchen Marcie L. White, Front Desk Laurie Nivison, Director of Holly M. Brown, Housekeeping Manager Jane Wholey, Housekeeping/ Marketing Emily Buchanan, Prep Cook Stephanie E. Lawson, Server Groundskeeper Deborah L. Burek, Front Desk Dale A. Martin, Dishwasher/Prep Emily L. Wholey, Dining Room Maintenance & Security Laura R. Campbell, Hostess Justin N. McDonald, Food Cart Cook Manager William A. Flynt, Architectural David J. Charles, Dishwasher/ Larissa L. Miner, Server Maxwell Wilby, Busser Conservator Groundskeeper Wendy Miner, Hostess Alan J. Yebernetsky, Maintenance George Holmes, Superintendent of Angela Y. Crossman, Housekeeping Erin R. Morrell, Team Leader/ Server Naomi K. Zeitz, Hostess Property Maintenance Luke B. Daigle, Line Cook

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Photo by Richard Cheek Trustees and Museum Staff

Museum Store Tina Harding, Manager Catherine A. Gamble Barbara J. Goodhind Judith E. Graves Martha J. Hemenway Irene C. Knowlton Tracey A. McFadden Mary Ruddock Barbara Sackman Nancy A. Wood

Bartels Interns Kayla R. Diggins Ezra J. Orlinsky Kathryn E. Tyler

2015 Summer Fellows Rebecca E. Soules, Assistant Tutor Brooke Baerman Gabrielle Lachtrup Katherine Quigley Jacob Rothman Emily Sackett Veronica Vesnaver

40 2015 Award Recipients

Each May, Historic Deerfield recognizes individuals for financial leadership, historic preservation, their role in raising awareness of Historic Deerfield, and for their outstanding long term support of the museum. The 2015 honorees are:

Cathleen C. Esleeck, Leadership Award Peter and Jane Benes, Preservation Award Lynda M. Hotra, Ambassador Award The 28- Year Plus Legacy Members of the Friends of Historic Deerfield, President’s Award

L to R: Philip Zea, Jane Benes, Peter Benes, Lynda M. Hotra

Cathleen C. Esleeck

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Mission Statement Historic Deerfield, Inc., is dedicated to the heritage and preservation of Deerfield, Massachusetts and the Connecticut River Valley. Its museums and programs provide today’s audiences with experiences that create an understanding and appreciation of New England’s historic villages and countryside.