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THE CONSERVATION ISSUE

2 JANUARY-MAY 2016 thehenryford.org 3 MAGAZINE JANUARY-MAY 2016 Contents DEPARTMENTS FEATURES Our Mission 4 Behind the Scenes 5 20 Letter from the President 6 IMPERFECTION Ask + Answer 7 APPRECIATION A Word or Two 8 When should protecting Social Snippets 9 something’s authenticity Off the Shelf 10 outweigh our entertainment? On the Shelf 68 A Look Back 88 32 ARCHAEOLOGY’S UNDERGROUND INNOVATION Excavating Atari’s fabled NATION 13 video game burial site proves there is purpose to preserving the recent past INSIDE 40 THE DESIGN WITH HENRY DIMENSION Architects for social FORD impact look, listen and Henry Ford Museum 52 then create experiences Greenfield Village 54 that restore community, Ford Rouge Factory Tour 56 human dignity and Giant Screen Experience 58 eventually evoke change Take It Forward 60 Acquisitions + Collections 62 2016 Events 64 STAY, EXPLORE + SAVOR 71

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2 JANUARY-MAY 2016 thehenryford.org 3 OUR MISSION Who We Are and What We Do

TO MAKE A DONATION Jeff Dunlap, 313.982.6167 Gain perspective. [email protected] thehenryford.org/support TO MAKE A LEGACY GIFT Spence Medford, Get inspired. 313.982.6016 [email protected] thehenryfordlegacy.org Chairman of the Board ADVERTISING INFORMATION Make history. S. Evan Weiner Cyndi Schutter, 313.982.6158 [email protected] Vice Chairman THE HENRY FORD: A NATIONAL TREASURE AND CULTURAL RESOURCE Gerard M. Anderson MEMBERSHIP INFORMATION The Henry Ford Call Center The Henry Ford in Dearborn, Michigan, is an internationally recognized cultural Vice Chairman Sheila Ford Hamp 313.982.6001 destination that brings the past forward by immersing visitors in the stories of GENERAL INQUIRIES AND ingenuity, resourcefulness and innovation that helped shape America. President and Secretary GROUP RESERVATIONS A national historic landmark with an unparalleled collection of artifacts Patricia E. Mooradian The Henry Ford Call Center from 300 years of American history, The Henry Ford is a force for sparking 313.982.6001 Treasurer curiosity and inspiring tomorrow’s innovators. More than 1.6 million visitors Lisa A. Payne RESEARCH INQUIRIES annually experience its four venues: Henry Ford Museum, Greenfield Village, 313.982.6020 Ford Rouge Factory Tour and the Benson Ford Research Center. A continually Board of Trustees research.center@thehenry Lynn Ford Alandt expanding array of content available online provides anytime, anywhere access ford.org Paul R. Dimond ™ to The Henry Ford Archive of American Innovation. The Henry Ford is also home Edsel B. Ford II SUBSCRIPTION to Henry Ford Academy, a public charter high school that educates 485 students Henry Ford III INFORMATION a year on the institution’s campus. In 2014, The Henry Ford premiered its first-ever William Clay Ford, Jr. The Henry Ford Call Center national, Emmy® Award-winning television series, The Henry Ford’s Innovation George F. Francis III 313.982.6001 or visit Nation, showcasing present-day change makers and The Henry Ford’s artifacts Ralph J. Gerson thehenryford.org/about/ and unique guest experiences. Hosted by news correspondent and humorist Christopher F. HampO CTANEcontact.aspx Steven K. Hamp Mo Rocca, this weekly half-hour show airs Saturday mornings on CBS. John W. Ingle III For more information, please visit thehenryford.org. Elizabeth Ford Kontulis DESIGN, PRODUCTION AND Richard A. Manoogian EDITORIAL SERVICES Hau Thai-Tang OCTANE Alessandro F. UzielliOCTANE 248.399.1322 Amb. Ronald N. Weiser [email protected] Jennifer LaForce, Editor Bill Bowen, Creative Director Julie Friedman, Art Director Kathy O’Gorman, Copy Editor Help us inspire The Henry Ford Magazine is published twice a year by future change makers The Henry Ford, 20900 Oakwood Blvd., Dearborn, MI 48124. Copyright 2016. All rights reserved. Reproduction The Henry Ford inspires dreamers, doers, movers and makers in whole or in part without written permission is prohibited. All photos are from The Henry Ford collections unless with stories of the greatest breakthroughs and inventions otherwise noted. throughout history. Your support goes a long way toward unleashing The Henry Ford Archive of American Innovation™ and making our collections available to the world.

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4 JANUARY-MAY 2016 thehenryford.org PB Notable Colleagues and Correspondents BEHIND THE SCENES

SHARE SOMETHING YOU SAVED AND WHY. Our contributors tell us.

RICHARD BORGE TYLER HOEHNE JENNIFER LAFORCE ELLIOTT O’DONOVAN ANDREW REINHARD A few years ago, I bought I still have a coffee cup A quarter earned from When I was 5 years old, A leather knife sheath a 1973 VW Super Beetle my sister-in-law made my days slinging my sister gave me a inscribed with the name in Georgia (no rust) and for me. It’s not a pretty fried chicken at a local Curious George stuffed Fred Kaley I recovered drove it back to Brooklyn. coffee cup. It’s a little restaurant. As a working animal that I’ve kept in the North Dakota I wanted it because I had beat up, needs some TLC, college student paying until this day. It’s the Badlands. My hope is one before I moved to but for whatever reason my way, I appreciated oldest material posses- that I can return it to NYC, and it brings back I love it and hang onto it. every dime I made. One sion that I own. I’ve kept its owner one day. great memories. A nice day as I counted out my it because it reminds Tyler Hoehne is a Andrew Reinhard is the side effect of driving this tips, I gave a closer look me of the lifelong bond designer and illustrator director of publications car is that almost every at a quarter I had tucked that I have with my big from Los Angeles. He’s at the American Numis- time I drive it, people in my apron. George sister. I’ve considered done work for The New matic Society and is a approach me with their Washington’s face was passing it down to one York Times, Starbucks, member of the Punk own vintage Beetle story. expertly carved with of her kids, but I’m not Billboard, GOOD and Archaeology collective. I feel it is conserving flowing hair and a smok- quite ready yet. others. And while that’s people’s memories and ing cig hanging from his Archaeology’s cool and all, he really Elliott O’Donovan the VW Beetle’s place lips. Crass, maybe, but I Underground, just likes to make things is a Washington, D.C.- in history. appreciated the artistry Page 32 with people. He also based photographer achieved on such a small Richard Borge lives and really likes plants and who specializes in canvas. I could never works in Brooklyn. Edito- the LA Clippers. commercial and editorial part with it. rial and corporate illus- Ask + Answer, Page 7 portraiture. His unique tration and motion design Jennifer LaForce has style is influenced by keep him busy. In addi- spent most of her his travels. In 2012, he tion to professional proj- 25-year writing career was part of a humani- ects, Richard is fortunate penning articles about tarian trip to Malawi in to teach at both Parsons all things automotive southeast Africa, where and Pratt, both in the NYC for corporations such he completed a series area. Being well versed as Ford Motor Company of portraits that became in visual consulting and and General Motors. She part of an art exhibit creative direction, one has a knack for listen- that raised more than of his favorite aspects of ing and telling stories $5,000, all of which visual communication is with flair and creativity, went to the schools and the conceptual process, appreciates a good edit villages documented. be it selling a product or and knows a thing or two Imperfection conveying the intricacies about the AP Stylebook. Appreciation, of a complex article. Imperfection Page 20 Archaeology’s Appreciation, Underground, Page 20 Page 32

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PB JANUARY-MAY 2016 thehenryford.org 5 LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT Casual Thoughts and Serious Correspondence

To conserve or to restore?

That is the essence of our theme for this issue of The Henry Ford Magazine, and it goes to the heart of the many roles performed by our wonderful staff. The Henry Ford as an institution is often challenged with making a choice between conserving an artifact or restoring it, between deciding if its best use for our visitors is for educational or entertainment purposes. It’s a fine balance for sure, and with a collection featuring 1 million three-dimensional and 25 million two-dimensional objects and artifacts, there are an array of decisions confronting our curators, conser- vators and entire staff. They work collaboratively, diligently and very much behind the scenes every day, preserving the heritage that’s so important to the story we tell. And they accomplish that goal by ensuring that every item in our Archive of American Innovation is respected as it is made accessible and relevant for our 1.6 million yearly visitors, as well as for the countless others that access our collection online. Because we’re a collecting institution, we’re constantly on the lookout for those key stories that focus on innovation, ingenuity and resourcefulness that can inspire and pave the way to a better future for us all. But at the same time, we go to great lengths to ensure our daily operations, programs and exhibi- tions in both Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village run smoothly and seamlessly. For instance, there are the devoted engineers and machinists in the T Shed (see Page 54), our personnel protecting the history of the structures that make up the Ford Rouge Complex (see Page 56) and so many others, all working selflessly and anonymously. Many other museums outsource this aspect of their operations. We choose not to because the core assets of this institution are way too dear to us. And those core assets are not only our artifacts, objects and stories but the dedicated people here who bring them to life for all the world to see, to learn from and, most important of all, to be inspired by.

BILL BOWEN PATRICIA E. MOORADIAN, The Henry Ford is an institution that expertly blends the tenets of conservation and PRESIDENT restoration daily, whether it’s with the tools of the trade to maintain Model T’s in Greenfield Village (bottom) or the careful touch of senior conservator and paper expert Minoo Larson in the Conservation Lab.

6 JANUARY-MAY 2016 Questions and Replies About Today’s Trends, Talk ASK + ANSWER

TYLER HOEHNE ASK: Is a conservator a scientist?

ANSWER: According to the Merriam-Webster Now, there are conservation scientists, who MARY FAHEY is Dictionary, a scientist is “a person who is trained represent a specialized, highly trained subset of chief conservator at in a science and whose job involves doing scientific conservation professionals whose work concentrates The Henry Ford. research or solving scientific problems.” exclusively on the science of artifact preservation. Based upon this definition, I agree it would be Rather than conserving artifacts, they focus their easy to consider conservators scientists. But, daily efforts on the analysis of artifact materials to truthfully, scientific work represents only a portion determine how to best prevent degradation. They also of the work that we carry out on a daily basis. conduct research to establish the best materials and Conservation as a field is interdisciplinary. techniques for conservators to use when they work It involves studio practices, sciences and the on artifacts. humanities. As a conservator, you are responsible So are conservators scientists? No, we are not. for the long-term preservation of artistic and cultural But we do use an extensive training in material artifacts. We analyze and assess the condition of science, in combination with artistic skills and knowl- cultural property and use our knowledge to develop edge of art history, to conserve museum artifacts. collection care plans and site management strate- gies. We also carry out conservation treatments and related research.

PB JANUARY-MAY 2016 thehenryford.org 7 A WORD OR TWO Defining People, Places, Pastimes

Cracking Artifacts AGENTS OF (KRAK-ING) V. (AR-TI-FAKTS) N. DETERIORATION It’s all good when it’s Envisioning the ancients A conservator’s an egg in the pan or a such as King Tut’s tomb official list of 10 bad things that can belly-busting laugh, and the Dead Sea Scrolls trash your treasures. but what’s the plan is taking it traditional. 1. Physical Forces. when the floor of one We’re dishing the dirt on Impact, vibration of Buckminster Fuller’s Atari and video games’ and pressure. futuristic houses gets a history and lore. 2. Thieves and fissure and finds itself PAGE 34 Vandals. Graffiti, needing a fix? pouring acid, PAGE 53 slashing a painting. 3. Fire. Whether accidental or an Fake act of arson. (FEYK) N. 4. Water. Floods, Degradation Nothing disingenuous leaks, natural and man-made disasters. (DEG-RUH-DEY-SHUHN) about this definition, only N. its inspiration. There’s 5. Pests. Yes, insects As the clock ticks, the a chair handcrafted and rodents, but think mold and the sun shines and the air with malicious intent, microscopic, too. surrounds, things can designed specifically deteriorate bit by bit to dupe even the most 6. Pollutants. Airborne chemical until all is lost. Kudos careful of curators. reactions. Why did to the conservator who PAGE 88 my shiny new works tirelessly to stop Authenticity necklace tarnish? this process dead in (AW-THEN-TIS-I-TEE) 7. Light. Ultraviolet its tracks. N. and infrared. Light damages. We must PAGE 7 What’s genuine, original, balance our need to Patina valid and true. That goes see with the need of (PA-TEEN-UH) N. for the correctness of future generations to see it, too. In some cases, beauty a set of collector cars may be only skin deep. cruising the streets 8. Temperature. Container When history’s hand on of The Henry Ford’s Too high, too low, (KUHN-TEY-NER) N. constantly chang- a surface equates to Greenfield Village. Not a cup, not a box or perfect imperfection. ing. Our comfort and PAGE 54 an artifact’s comfort a brown bag filled with PAGE 23 are different. lunch. It’s your home, the 9. Relative Humidity. place some designers Sticky sweatiness and architects call the and dampness is treasure chest for living. artifact incorrect. PAGE 46 10. Dissociation. Label, label, label. Loss of data is the loss of identity and devalues an artifact.

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8 JANUARY-MAY 2016 Online Chatter and Curatorial Matters SOCIAL SNIPPETS #AskACurator Day 2015 #AskACurator Day has become a welcome tradition for curators at The Henry Ford. The content shared in 2015 came from more than 1,000 museums from 51 countries for a total of 44,069 tweets with a reach of 63,276,884. What does all of that mean? People love to know what happens behind the scenes at a museum. Our curators took a variety of thought-provoking questions, but a common theme dealt with how we view the artifacts within our collections.

Q What’s more Q People have to Q How would you interesting about an know about a collec- curate an exhibit artifact, its construc- tion to care about it. without objects? tion or purpose? How do you introduce Inge Zwart, @zwart_i Instructables.com, more people to “your” A @zwart_i @Instructables collection? Jennifer Doubt, We made an online A @instructables @FlatPlantsCAN collection of objects It’s all in the eye of we have but aren’t the beholder. Interpre- A @FlatPlantsCAN out on display. tation is like a kaleido- Great question — we use Lish Dorset, scope. Each curator the digital world (incl. social media manager, spins the wheel. social media) to reach The Henry Ford folks around the world. Charles Sable, curator of decorative Ellice Engdahl, arts, The Henry Ford digital collections & content manager, The Henry Ford

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dIn 2015, the Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA) displayed nearly 70 works of art in an exhibit called Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo in Detroit. The Henry Ford was pleased to collaborate WE’RE HERE with the DIA and other Detroit-area community organizations to provide additional context for the exhibit. We digitized parts of our collection that directly relate to Diego You can always ask The Henry Ford a question, Rivera, Frida Kahlo, their relationship with Edsel Ford and Ford Motor Company, and the day or night, online. We’re @TheHenryFord on creation of the Detroit Industry frescos themselves. Because of the close involvement all social platforms. of Edsel Ford and Ford Motor Company in the project, our archives contain documents, photographs and correspondence related to these subjects.

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A must-have for any serious antique car aficionado, The Stewardship of Historically Important Automo- The Stewardship biles promotes the idea that important historic cars can be respected just as other significant antiques of Historically are valued. It introduces the basic precepts of the “conservation” approach to preservation. Delving deep into case studies of rare survivors and barn Important Automobiles finds saved because of benign neglect, the book presents examples of miraculous preservation, but published by the also the unwitting destruction of some important American car collections. While many collector cars are not rare, unique or Simeone Automotive individually important, the ones that are — for aes- thetic, historical or technological reasons — should Foundation be conserved and not restored. Through a series of essays written by influential collectors, promoters CLARA DECK, THE HENRY FORD’S and judges, this book explains how to research and SENIOR CONSERVATOR, REVIEWS find provenance and how to examine a vehicle for original details. Plus, the photos are excellent. THE WINNING PUBLICATION THAT The most compelling and well-reasoned entries PRESENTED THE CASE FOR ADOPTING A are from Malcolm Collum, chief conservator of the NEW STANDARD FOR CONSERVATORSHIP Smithsonian Institution’s National Air and Space Museum and a former conservator at The Henry Ford, OF SIGNIFICANT AUTOMOBILES. and the Keno brothers, dealers made famous on Antiques Roadshow. Collum uses examples from The Henry Ford’s outstanding collection to outline a logical decision-making process for determining the risks of operating a vehicle versus the rewards. The Kenos make intriguing analogies related to the connoisseur- ship of antique objects and antique automobiles. At The Henry Ford, we have two signature car shows, Motor Muster (June 18-19) and the Old Car Festival (September 10-11) in Greenfield Village. Both shows are great places to see a diversity of tastes in terms of preserving old cars. As a museum conservator, I am delighted every year to see more preservation-class automobiles on display at these events. I see more owners proudly displaying the as-found surfaces on their automobiles — rusty, pocked and worn with the evidence of time. It makes me hopeful that the message so expertly expressed in the Simeone book is getting through and gaining momentum. “Once the evidence of an object’s travel through time disappears, history disappears.” — Miles Collier, essayist

10 JANUARY-MAY 2016 thehenryford.org 11 WE’VE GOT What are YOU BOOKED If you’re looking for more words on some of the we reading + recurring themes covered in this issue of The Henry Ford Magazine, see below. watching? We’ve plucked a few good reads and videos focused on conservation, design and archae- ology. For help with access, write to research.center@ thehenryford.org.

CONSERVATION/ RESTORATION/ PRESERVATION Collecting and Restoring Antique Bicycles by G. Donald Adams Kristen Gallerneaux The Great Massive Curator of Communications Ballet: Restoration and Information Technology of an American The Henry Ford Treasure: Greenfield Village by Henry Ford Museum and The Missing Ink: The Lost Greenfield Village Lish Dorset Art of Handwriting Caring for Your Social Media Manager by Philip Hensher Family Treasures: The Henry Ford Heritage Preservation Hensher notes that in our by Jane S. Long and digital age of email and Richard W. Long The Public Standards texting, you can be friends The Old-House Manual Project with someone for years — Journal by Old-House Journal Corp. thestandardsmanual.com and never see their hand- writing. Cursive practice In the fall of 2015, Jesse has been largely dropped ARCHAEOLOGY Reed and Hamish Smyth Matt Anderson from the core curriculum: What Is Media made headlines for creating Curator of Transportation We have “surrendered” Archaeology? by Jussi Parikka a Kickstarter campaign The Henry Ford it for the efficiency of to reissue the 1975 NASA typed text. SCA Journal Graphics Standards by the Society The Wright Brothers Through absurdly florid for Commercial Manual, a branding book loops — or bare-bones by David McCullough Archeology that defined the graphics chicken scratches — look of the agency in the David McCullough turns the memory of a person ‘70s, ‘80s and early ‘90s. PUBLIC INTEREST his prodigious talents persists in a handwritten DESIGN But the NASA manual isn’t to early aviation in The note. Without being overly the duo’s first attempt Why Design Now? Wright Brothers. There nostalgic or making explicit by the National to share long-forgotten are many books on the demands for reform, this Design Triennial government documents Wrights, but McCullough’s book inspires us to pre- Fuller Houses: with the public. The website is distinguished by its serve and reclaim how R. Buckminster thestandardsmanual.com fast pace, its emphasis we write. Fuller’s Dymaxion houses the 1970 New on Wilbur’s 1908 flights Dwellings and Other York City Transit Authority Domestic Adventures in France and the overdue by Federico Neder Graphics Standards Manual, attention paid to sister a book “found in a locker Design with the Katharine. Other 90%: Cities by beneath old gym clothes.” Arguably, the book Cynthia E. Smith, ed. The website’s purpose is ends too soon with only Worldchanging: simple: It offers a complete a brief epilogue addressing A User’s Guide for look at the manual, page by the patent fights, Wilbur’s the 21st Century page, for design lovers and premature death and by Alex Steffen history junkies to enjoy. Orville’s later work to secure and preserve the brothers’ legacy. Still, it’s a great introduction to two of America’s most inspiring inventors.

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INNOVATION NATION A weekly TV show that airs Saturday mornings on CBS presents inspiring stories that showcase present-day change makers and the possibilities for future progress. Each episode of The Henry Ford’s Innovation Nation shares dramatic accounts of the world’s greatest inventions — and the perseverance, passion and price required to bring them to life.

Intro with Jim Lichtenstein 14 Sharkbanz 16 Ideas in Action 18

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dInnovation Nation Co-Executive Producer Jim Lichtenstein (left) and show host Mo Rocca EMMY®- WINNING INNOVATION NATION Producing The Henry Ford’s Innovation Nation has been the highlight and greatest honor of my 40-year TV career. The show is a perfect storm, colliding the engaging talent of Mo Rocca, Alie Ward and Adam Yamaguchi with our dedicated production staff; the incred- ible collection of history and innovation at The Henry Ford; and the support of Litton Entertainment and CBS. We were incredibly honored to be recognized with a Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Special Class Series in our first season on the air. In Season 2, we are building on that early success by continuing to inspire kids of all ages with stories of people just like them who had an idea that turned into a dream, and through persistence and hard work, they are making WATCH Innovation Nation Saturday those dreams come true and changing the world. mornings on CBS. Check your This is why we end each episode with wise words from Mo Rocca: local listings for airtimec “Dream big. And don’t quit.”

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EPISODE 29 FISH ’N’ A FORCE FIELD New technology featured on The Henry Ford’s Innovation Nation makes sea swimming safer, saves sharks from a bad rap

Forget Jaws and Sharknado. Modern ankle bands use patented magnetic man has more chance of being technology to deter sharks. Rice said crushed shaking coins out of a soda it works by disrupting the unique vending machine than being bitten by electromagnetic sensitivity sharks a shark, said Dr. Patrick Rice, partner have on their snouts, basically what and senior marine biologist for Shark- they use to see what’s around them. Defense Technologies based in New The Innovation Nation segment Jersey. Yet galeophobia, or fear of on Sharkbanz prompted The Henry sharks, is all too real and keeps many Ford Magazine to talk to Rice, not just would-be ocean lovers from venturing about his desire to make beachgoers, into the sea. swimmers and surfers feel safer in the The makers of Sharkbanz hope to water but about his ultimate hope that change that. Featured on Episode everyone will begin to see sharks as 29 of The Henry Ford’s Innovation creatures to protect rather than fear Nation TV series, the stylish wrist and and destroy. SWIM PHOTO BY JONAS JUNGBLUT; PRODUCT PHOTO BY JEFF CLARK

HOW IT WORKS As the shark approaches a person wearing Sharkbanz, magnetic waves coming from the band disrupt its electroreceptors, and it quickly turns away. The experience for the shark is similar to a person suddenly shining a very bright light in your eyes in a dark room.

ONLINE Learn more about the conservation work and scientifc shark research being done at SharkDefense Technologies sharkdefense.comc To purchase Sharkbanz products, visit sharkbanz.comc

16 JANUARY-MAY 2016 NUMBERS THF Magazine sensors on their snout. FROM Why should we care The technology used in THE SEA about sharks? Sharkbanz overwhelms these electrical sensors Dr. Rice It’s estimated and deters them. 1 100 million sharks are killed each year as a THF Magazine 2 MILLION result of the commercial How did you discover fishing process, whether the shark repellent? 100 it’s through accidental bycatch or targeted fish- Dr. Rice Dr. Erik MILLION ing for shark fin soup. Stroud, my partner in Sharks killed Our efforts here in the SharkDefense Tech- each year through U.S. to protect sharks nologies, had been commercial fishing For every human killed by a bycatch and playing with a bunch of are really starting to shark finning. shark, humans kill approximately see some numbers potential technologies 2 million sharks. rebounding. Shark for repelling sharks in populations are coming the basement of his back. But there are more home in New Jersey. He people in the water, was experimenting with too, which is ultimately a rare-earth neodymium going to lead to more iron boride magnet. He TWO interactions between had a tank with some New marine people and sharks. sharks in it, and one sanctuaries planned day the pump stopped and announced by THF Magazine functioning on the shark President Obama. How can a product tank. When he went to One off the coast of Sharks possess the most sensitive like Sharkbanz help? investigate, he set the Maryland, the other in Lake Michigan. magnet down next to electromagnetic sense of all Dr. Rice Ultimately, the tank, and the three known animals and use it to judge the concept is to reduce sharks darted off in interactions between distance, shape and even the heart three different direc- humans and sharks. If tions. It was kind of a rate of other animals near them. you can reduce those “eureka” moment. interactions, whether it be through fishing or THF Magazine swimming, there will be 10% How else are you less reason for people Sharks left in the applying the technol- oceans that were there to fear sharks. Very few ogy to keep sharks 15-20 years ago. are actually dangerous. away from beaches? THF Magazine Dr. Rice Currently, Why do sharks bite? nets are often used to keep sharks at bay, but Dr. Rice When sharks they often ensnare and bite, it’s usually a case kill the shark. We’ve had of mistaken identity. 100 great success with mag- They’re swimming in Points above daily netic barriers we’ve been murky water and can’t recommended intake developing for Australia Some scientists speculate that at see very well. They sense of mercury and arsenic and South Africa. Not in shark fin soup. the current escalating rate of shark something and take an only are we trying to pro- investigatory bite. When annihilation, our seas could contain tect people from sharks, they’re in that hunting no sharks in as few as 20 years. we’re protecting sharks mode, called forag- from people. ing, they’re using the

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thehenryford.org 17 INNOVATION NATION IDEAS IN ACTION A sampling of cool inventions and crazy notions

PROBLEM: PROBLEM: When a natural predator Liquids stick, no matter PROBLEM: is unnaturally eradicated, how hard we tap and Petroleum used to an ecosystem gets out shake the bottle. make plastics is not of whack. SOLUTION: a renewable, enviro- SOLUTION: Create a nontoxic friendly resource. Reintroduce said surface coating that SOLUTION: predator and restore makes every last Make a bioplastic from nature’s harmony. dollop drop. a biodegradable, recy- TREE T-PEE NATURE: LET IT SLIDE cled material, reducing PROBLEM: waste and pollution. THE MASTER Classic irrigation While working with a INNOVATOR methods on a farm group of material sci- PEELS TO Elk eat willow. Beaver waste water. ence engineers on how PLASTIC to prevent clogs in oil eat willow. Wolves eat Elif Bilgin was a teen- and gas pipelines, MIT elk. Beavers build dams SOLUTION: ager in Istanbul worried student Dave Smith had and help create lush Deliver water and nutri- about preserving our an epiphany. If a slick marsh habitats for other ents to plants in a more environment. She saw and slippery surface creatures that other contained, direct way. plastics polluting the coating could prevent predators like to eat. world around her and CONE THAT adhesion in a gas line, Nature is a succession started thinking. What’s CONSERVES why couldn’t it do the of careful checks and organic, biodegradable Johnny Georges worked same for ketchup in balances. Several and recyclable that for his father for more a bottle? LiquiGlide is decades back, people could replace all that than 20 years, learn- nontoxic and does what thought wolves were nasty petroleum in our ing firsthand how to no amount of bottle scary and made them plastics? She turned engineer and install tapping, bottom bang- disappear from Yellow- to something edible irrigation, drill wells ing and shaking up and stone National Park. No that people seldom and install pumps and down can do. wolves meant too many consume and almost motors. One day, he and elk, not enough willow to liquiglide.com always throw away his inventor dad were eat, too few beaver, and without a thought: banking trees — pack- the landscape changed. WATCH thehenryford.org/ the banana peel. Her ing dirt around them innovationnation/ Conservationists helped produced-from-the- — to protect their citrus episode29.aspc bring back the wolf to peel bioplastic is strong bearers against frost. Yellowstone and watched enough and doesn’t Banking inspired the as nature’s balance was decay before it should. development of a small slowly restored. She envisions its many cone and eventually the future applications, nps.gov/yell tree T-PEE, which con- maybe even as a mate- serves water, conserves rial to make cosmetic WATCH thehenryford.org/ electricity and helps innovationnation/ prostheses one day. episode27.aspc farmers use 75 percent less fertilizer thanks to elif-bilgin.com its more direct delivery of everything a root WATCH thehenryford.org/ innovationnation/ system needs. LIQUIGLIDE INC. episode28.aspc treetpee.com Learn about these great ideas in action and much more on thehenryford.org/ WATCH The Henry Ford’s Innovation Nation with Mo Rocca on Saturday innovationnation/ mornings during CBS Network’s block of educational programming episode30.aspc called CBS Dream Team...It’s Epic. Check your local listings.

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Macys-EdisonInstituteInc.indd 1 10/14/15 9:08 AM Imperfection Appreciation

When should protecting something’s authenticity outweigh our entertainment?

By Jennifer LaForce

20 JANUARY-MAY 2016 A VEHICLE FOR STORYTELLING The recent subject of an extensive conservation/ restoration effort, The Henry Ford’s 1967 Ford GT40 Mark IV still wears the telltale marks of what it takes to win at the 24 Hours of Le Mans.

FROM THE HENRY FORD ARCHIVE OF AMERICAN INNOVATION™

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AFFINITY FOR THE AUTHENTIC Conservator Malcolm Collum has owned his ’67 MG MGB GT since 1984, preferring to celebrate its originality and areas of wear and tear rather than to replace and repair.

22 JANUARY-MAY 2016 Malcolm Collum has a dream job. He’s the chief conservator at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. That means he gets to play (in the serious sense) with historic aircraft and spacecraft every day.

Before that, he was a senior conserva- attached to them. At Pebble Beach tor at The Henry Ford, where he was the last year, it was a rare 1961 Ferrari 400 last lucky person to drive Old 16 — the Superamerica Coupe that made one first American car to win America’s first of the biggest splashes among the great international auto race in 1908. judges, car aficionados and media. But long before Collum put on his Unrestored and as original as the official conservator’s hat, he was a day it left an Italian dealership, the collector. The proud owner of a 1967 MG car is one of the only untouched and MGB GT since 1984 — that still resides remaining such Ferraris built with an in his garage — he happily remembers aluminum-alloy body. taking it to car shows, often one among This public pull toward the rare many polished and preserved beauties object that shows its age with grace waiting to be admired. Collum’s car, is trickling over to other collectible however, was different. communities, too, from toys and “In high school and college, I always watches to antique tower clocks. “It’s saw the value of the authentic, even the beauty of the survivor,” explained if it meant showing a little age,” said Collum. “It gets people’s attention and Collum. As a result of that conser- opens up discussion of their story.” vator-style mindset, Collum never restored his MG to a state of imperfect ANTIQUES ROADSHOW EFFECT perfection, as he sees it, preferring Collum’s recollections of his MG allude to appreciate and preserve the car’s to bigger questions that fall far outside patina and slight blemishes. the realm of collectibles. Questions Surprisingly, or maybe not, other that conservators such as Mary Fahey, people were drawn to the car’s chief conservator at The Henry Ford, authenticity, too. “In these car shows, and Clara Deck, senior conservator, you would have a line of MGs beauti- think about every day. Is it better to fully restored. They all looked the restore or conserve? Just because we same,” he said. “People would just can fix something — or make it look seem to gravitate toward me and better — does that mean we should? my MG. They appreciated the subtle Watch Antiques Roadshow on details that are often lost when you PBS, noted Deck, and you’ll quickly start replacing parts.” understand the heated debate and The phenomenon witnessed by the marked difference between the Collum at car shows with his MG two methodologies and mindsets. isn’t necessarily new news. This So often on the show, appraisers tell trend toward seeing greater value hopeful object owners that if only in dings and dents versus shiny and they hadn’t refurbished that chair new has been growing exponentially or made that repair it would be worth in car collector clubs and car show thousands more. circuits over the past decade or so. “It’s called the Antiques Road- The Concours d’Elegance shows, for show Effect,” said Deck. “People are example, have long had a Preserva- starting to rethink notions about tion Class as part of their awards, historic objects. Yes, anything can be honoring unrestored, historically sig- restored if you throw enough money ELLIOTT O’DONOVAN nificant entries with intriguing stories at it, but do you really want to?”c

RESEARCH Evert Louwman and the Louwman Museum in The Hague, Netherlands, and admire the untouched appearance of its rare Toyoda AA, the oldest surviving Toyotac

thehenryford.org 23 IMPERFECTION APPRECIATION bOld 16 and engine cover latch detail.

FROM THE HENRY FORD ARCHIVE OF AMERICAN INNOVATION™

Not to say that the conservator work in-house in its Conservation Lab doesn’t appreciate the art or skill (see sidebar on Page 28), a team of behind restoration or understand its curators and conservators decided place. At The Henry Ford, restora- to send the vehicle to Dan Gurney’s tion is a daily practice in Greenfield All American Racers in Santa Ana, Village’s T Shed and roundhouse, California, for careful inspection where talented machinists, mechan- and treatment. “The project was the ics, engineers and expert hobbyists perfect merging of car restoration do whatever it takes to maintain the and conservator ethics,” said Fahey. historical integrity of the institution’s The ‘67 Ford GT40 was in Gurney’s Ford Model T’s and steam locomo- shop for nine months. The directive tives, while keeping them operational was not to repaint or replace, only to so they can provide a moving visitor disassemble and catalog damage, experience (see “Garage Art” story and make approved repairs where on Page 54). If a part breaks or fails, absolutely necessary. it must be repaired or replaced so the “If this would have been a restora- machine can run. Sometimes histori- tion, we would have taken parts off cal methods of repair and replace- the car, replated, repolished, replaced. ment such as pouring castings make Made it look better than new,” said sense, sometimes they don’t. Justin Gurney, All American Racers’ Where things can get gray between CEO and racing icon Dan Gurney’s restoration and conservation, said son. “Conservation is way different. Collum, is when you’re dealing with We needed to leave the car just as it that rare, special item and what you was when it came off the track.” should do with it. “I understand the That meant green potted-plant- innate joy people get in restoring like foam found under the lower rocker things. When you take something tat- panels was left as is because it was tered and worn and make it look new related to modifications made on the again. But what if you took an artifact fly by the Ford team for better aero- like Old 16 — original paint, glorious dynamics. Panels that had notes on varnish on the wheels — and restored the back — written in black marker by it? It would ruin it. Make it a bad rep- Ford team member Phil Remington — lica of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.” also remain. Cracks in the windshield, fiberglass and paint weren’t repaired BEHIND THE SCENES either because they occurred during The Henry Ford recently faced its own the historic race. conservation conundrum when one of “One specialist at the 1967 Le Mans its prized artifacts, a 1967 Ford GT40 race had told us they remembered Mark IV, was damaged in transit for an the crack in the windshield,” said event in England. This was the U.S.- Fahey. “It was important to us to PRESERVING A STORY built race car/engine driven by Ameri- keep it as part of the car’s race story.” Foam found on the rocker panels of can auto racing legends Dan Gurney According to Le Mans racing lore, the Le Mans 1967 Ford GT40 Mark IV is left untouched. A part of the and A.J. Foyt that won the 1967 24 the crack most likely occurred as the car’s race-day tale, the off-the-cuff Hours of Le Mans. An all-American crew jumped on and rode atop the modification was made for better feat yet to be repeated. car in celebration after the big win. aerodynamics. While The Henry Ford does most of Fahey said Gurney’s team went its conservation, restoration and repair so far as to send her bags of paintc

24 JANUARY-MAY 2016 tors would use to repair a famous painting or print, Deck spent hours SAVING A SURFACE color-matching pigments, creating her own custom blend of wax/ Envision a car fender, bumped and bruised, with deep scratches in resin paste. She then applied it over repaired tears, in between cracks, its paint. Most collision and body shops wouldn’t even bother trying around rivets and in areas missing paint — all by hand with small to patch or cover, opting instead to just strip the paint, repair the brushes, heated spatulas, irons and a hot-air tool. damage and repaint the entire panel with sophisticated power spray All the work done by Deck is reversible and can be easily removed guns for the best results. Now, imagine those bumps, tears and missing areas of paint on a if required — a statement to the conservator’s pledge to maintain an historic race car that belongs to The Henry Ford. While Dan Gurney’s artifact’s authenticity. Maybe even more interesting, Deck only filled in All American Racers made careful repairs to the body of the 1967 Ford the cracks and blemishes caused by the transit damage. Cracks known GT40 Mark IV after it was damaged in transit, the painting was left to exist on the car’s surface as collateral damage from its hard-fought to Clara Deck (above), senior conservator at The Henry Ford. Using a win were left as is, each representing its own small chapter in the story technique called in-painting, which is the same technique art conserva- of the all-American win at the 24 Hours of Le Mans.

thehenryford.org 25 IMPERFECTION APPRECIATION aPaint chips that popped off during All American Racers’ careful inspection of the Le Mans ’67 Ford GT40 were collected and sent to The Henry Ford’s Conservation Is it better to restore Lab for safekeeping. or conserve? Just BILL BOWEN because we can fix something — or make it look better — does that mean we should?

chips, which popped off as the team crowd. Then the car quickly becomes disassembled and repaired the car. more of a replica than an authentic In-painting to repair damage to the artifact with a compelling history of car’s surface was later painstakingly use worth preserving. “As tempting completed in The Henry Ford’s Con- as it might be to put the pedal to the servation Lab by senior conservator metal and show off, an artifact is not Deck (see sidebar on Page 25). there for our personal gratification or The one thing Justin Gurney would to massage our egos,” said Collum. have loved to do that certainly didn’t “I call it consumptive adoration. There fall into the conservation column: Start is lots of pressure to operate mechani- the engine. He didn’t, of course. “We cal artifacts in the museum communi- really wanted to get the motor running. ties, but it comes to a point where we Would have loved to hear that thing fire can love something to death, where up,” he said. That would have required we consume it by using it and the extensive restoration and replacement artifact deteriorates and is lost.” of parts that weren’t part of The Henry Circling back to Collum’s story of

Ford’s conservation plan for the car. his unrestored MG or the rare Ferrari, FROM THE HENRY FORD ARCHIVE OF AMERICAN INNOVATION™ “I see both sides of the story now,” it seems that more people might be said Gurney, who had never participat- joining this conservator’s camp. That ed in a conservation effort of this scale there is this societal shift happening, WATCH Matt Anderson, curator of before. “A lot of cars that sit in our where both collectors and observ- transporation, and Mary museum are better than new. Some- ers are beginning to see the value in Fahey, chief conservator, explain the conservation times it’s better to leave things alone. leaving things alone, keeping them in project behind the 1967 You can over-restore something.” an original state rather than making Ford GT40 Mark IV them appear better than new. tinyurl.com/ovo6cgoc RESPONSIBLE UTILIZATION And, as Collum explained, you know Gurney’s revelation speaks to every an idea is starting to go mainstream WATCH Race car driver Dan museum’s ethical responsibility to when a rogue group bubbles to the Gurney talk about the its collections and its visitors, and surface and tries to take advantage Achilles’ heel of the how it determines when an artifact of what’s popular without actually 1967 Ford GT40 tinyurl.com/p2v3wwcc should be preserved and when it understanding why it’s popular. “You’ve should be utilized in some state to got people at car shows now that are entertain or educate. trying to fake it up or Disney it up,” he Conservators would cringe at the said. “They are ‘unrestoring’ what they idea of restoring the engine of the ‘67 have already restored because they GT40, turning the ignition key and think it’s more glamorous and likely to taking it for a 200-mile-per-hour spin win — latching on to an idea without on a racetrack purely to entertain a fully understanding its meaning.” l

26 JANUARY-MAY 2016 TOP OF THE HEAP Dan Gurney rides on the hood of the victorious Ford GT40 Mark IV at Le Mans in 1967. Gurney and co-driver A.J. Foyt (driving) took turns at the wheel during the 24-hour race. Gurney was a Le Mans veteran, while Foyt had never raced there before. Together they dominated the contest, beating the second-place Ferrari by 32 miles.

“One specialist at the 1967 Le Mans DID YOU KNOW? / The bump on the roof of the 1967 Ford GT40 race had told us they remembered helped to accommodate race driver Dan Gurney’s the crack in the windshield. It was 6-foot-4-inch height. important to us to keep it as part of the car’s race story.” — Mary Fahey, chief conservator, The Henry Ford

WORD ASSOCIATION Confused about the diff between Conservation is authentic & original, Restoration is replace & rebuild, fix, conservation and restoration? Understandable. A little game prevent, maintain, document, display, change, discard, use, touch, improve, of word association might make things a little clearer. stand back, appreciate, protect, static play, moving

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IN GOOD HANDS

While The Henry Ford TEXTILES turned to a third party to Artifacts such as clothing, help with the extensive quilts and furniture. conservation effort needed Here upholstery is to bring the 1967 Ford vacuumed, a latex sponge GT40 Mark IV as close to is used to remove grime, its original state after it mineral spirits clean was damaged in transit, wood surfaces, worn that’s not the norm. areas are repaired, every Most artifacts in the inscription and label on collections are cleaned, a frame or undercarriage cataloged, repaired and is noted, and the material preserved in the on-site used is documented and Conservation Lab. photographed. Hidden along the backside of Henry Ford PAPER Museum’s spacious Artifacts such as photo- exhibit floor, the lab is graphs, letters, film and TIPPING a somewhat scientific drawings. Here mold, wonderland made up of acidic paper, tape — THE work spaces for textiles, transparent, duct, painters paper and objects big and or otherwise — are the SCALE small. Where everything biggest enemies. Items The Henry Ford has a in The Henry Ford’s col- are flattened, washed, ranking system with a lections, from costumes, deacidified, and tape is 1-4 scale to help rate an ceramics and cars to removed using a combi- artifact’s “value,” 1 being photographs, furniture and nation of heat and water highest and 4 the lowest. film, is lovingly cared for. (solvents are a last resort). An artifact’s ranking Tears are repaired, and is based on: paper patches are some- times used to replace Historical significance what’s missing. Rarity OBJECTS Institutional connections Artifacts such as cars, Monetary value cameras, circus drums and everything in Curators decide where between. Here miscella- an artifact fits on the neous items are cleaned, scale, which helps The repaired, and taken apart Henry Ford objectively and put back together determine how an object like an intricate puzzle. should be used as part of Home of The Box, a make- the collections and the shift containment area for visitor’s experience. Not examining and ridding to say that debates and objects of hazardous professional disagree- corrosion, including lead ments don’t occasionally and cadmium. ensue, with or without the objectivity of a numbered rank and scale. “The welfare of the object as well as the welfare of the visitor is always fore- most,” Mary Fahey, chief conservator of The Henry Ford, said of these back- and-forth discussions.

28 JANUARY-MAY 2016 AN EXPERT TOUCH Senior conservator Clara Deck conducts a careful inspection of a Boston Brass Band drum’s skin in the Conservation Lab’s objects room. The skin will be repaired and prepared to go back on its shell. BILL BOWEN

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www.community.ford.com @fordinthecommunity @ford ARCHAEOLOGY’S UNDERGROUND EXCAVATING ATARI’S FABLED VIDEO GAME BURIAL SITE PROVES THERE IS PURPOSE TO PRESERVING THE RECENT PAST

By Andrew Reinhard

ILLUSTRATION BY RICHARD BORGE

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THE STRONGEST SANDSTORM dAtari 2600 controller recovered in Alamogordo. OF THE YEAR. The cable had been snipped prior to burial. A 30-foot-deep pit in constant danger irreverence of tradition, an interest of collapsing in on itself. Mercury-laced in abandoned spaces and see value ANDREW REINHARD pig remains. Unexploded World War II in objects discarded. How they both ordnance. Poisonous gas. Two years embrace destruction as part of the ago, the threats were real in the desert creative process. How punk music landscape of Alamogordo, New Mexico, has archaeological underpinnings as archaeologists prepared to com- in its songs — not in their reproduc- mence an important historical dig. tion of the past necessarily, but in For video games. In a landfill. their preservation of the past through In April 2014, the Atari burial ground brazen critique. of urban legend was excavated and The blog ultimately led to the artifacts exhumed to worldwide media publication of the book Punk Archae- acclaim. More important, a global con- ology, a manifesto of sorts about how versation about what archaeology is or we can use punk music as a tool to should be began. And a new strand of think about archaeology in different, the scientific study of human history, more playful ways. But like punk, the culture and its preservation that had play is serious and has, at its core, been somewhat underground was a social conscience. given newfound legitimacy. As a collective study, punk archae- ology realizes that as the speed PUNK ARCHAEOLOGY of consumerism and technology Known as “archaeology of the recent continue to increase at such a rapid past,” punk archaeology is archae- rate, it threatens to leave no real ology at the margins, focusing on documenting and preserving histo- archaeological record. That by record- ries and cultures thought of by others ing the recent past and the artifacts as either too strange or obscure for left behind almost as it happens, punk serious study. Thriving on a DIY work archaeologists can retain information ethic, volunteerism and community for future use by scholars of culture, outreach, it bridges the gap between technology and even trash. Punk science and instant communication archaeology strives to give a voice to with a curious public. history that can be too easily ignored This movement began in 2008 or forgotten by the mainstream. when two professors of archaeology, The now-infamous Atari excavation Bill Caraher and Kostis Kourelis, started marked the first official punk archae- casual conversations about how quite ology gig using real archaeological a few Mediterranean archaeologists methods for digging, documenting WHAT’S AN ARTIFACT? they knew of also had punk rock asso- and preserving artifacts less than Imbued with more than 30 ciations or predilections. Those chats 50 years old. years of history and mythology, jump-started a blog, where the two I was lucky enough to lead the team the Atari landfill excavation started bantering online about themes on the dig, which included Caraher, morphed the recovered video games and controllers from shared between punk rock and their Richard Rothaus (fearless field direc- trash to instant artifacts. own archaeological methods. How tor), Raiford Guins (video game histo- punk rock and archaeology share an rian) and Bret Weber (sociologist).c TAYLOR HATMAKER

DID YOU KNOW? / Benjamin Heckendorn, who purchased a recovered copy of the video game Asteroids, is the only person to have restored a landfill-recovered cartridge to playable condition.

34 JANUARY-MAY 2016 WHEN AN ARTIFACT STINKS

Spend a day in front of a fryer cooking french fries, and you start to smell like a french fry. Sit by a campfire long enough, and you take on the unmistakable scent of a burning log. So imagine what an item pulled from a landfill might smell like after 30 years tucked among tons of petrified banana peels, dirty diapers and bags of refuse. “A persistent odor of trash surrounds the artifacts,” Mary Fahey, chief conserva- tor of The Henry Ford, said stoically of the Atari landfill items now part of The Henry Ford’s collection. Indeed. The care and preservation of the Atari artifacts that were exca- vated from a New Mexico landfill pose unique prob- lems for conservators. When the items arrived at The Henry Ford, curators, of course, requested that they be retained in their original condition as is custom- ary with archaeological artifacts. That means the dirt and unidentified con- taminates that covered the items must remain. Handling of the artifacts is more than just a stinky proposition since the land- fill where they were recov- ered was also the dumping ground for potentially dangerous items such as mercury-laced pig remains and unexploded World War II ordnance. So yes, staff has been advised to handle the items very care- fully, donning gloves and respirators for protection from germs and possible contaminants. Not surprisingly, at present the Atari artifacts are on display in a sealed exhibition case. If the decision is ever made to remove them from display, they will be deodorized by suspending them over ac- tivated carbon in a sealed container. Once deodor- ized, according to Fahey, the artifacts will then be placed in the cold storage area of The Henry Ford’s Benson Ford Research Center, which will slow the cSoil sample, video game degradation process of the Swordquest and game plastic game cartridges. controller recovered from the landfill in Alamogordo. — Jennifer LaForce FROM THE HENRY FORD ARCHIVE OF AMERICAN INNOVATION™

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Punk rock and archaeology share an irreverence of tradition, an interest in abandoned spaces and see value in

objects discarded.

36 JANUARY-MAY 2016 LANDFILL LOST As a massive excavator disturbed the Atari burial ground, punk archaeologists examined the exhumed contents, which included a can of Play-Doh (still soft), a 1982 Sears Wish Book and a ripped bag of still-green grass clippings. Garbage buried in the desert, still in an inert state without air, moisture or sunlight.

TAYLOR HATMAKER

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All of us have one foot in punk history We reached the Atari level 30 feet PUNK MUSIC VS. and the other foot in either classi- underground on April 26, 2014, to the PUNK ARCHAEOLOGY cal antiquity or the American West. cheers of hundreds of Alamogordo We were willing volunteers, happy to residents, gamers, pop-culture participate in a project that would be mavens, news media and even a first-of-its-kind technology excava- the creator of the E.T. video game, DESTRUCTION DIY: tion. All captivated by the weirdness Howard Scott Warshaw. Copies of AS A CREATIVE Punk music PROCESS: surrounding the story behind it and more than 40 Atari games, plus Atari was all about mindful of how punk embraces the Punk music antiestablishment, 2600 consoles and controllers, were wanted to decon- where musicians weird and does so on a shoestring. excavated, some still boxed, in shrink struct the foundation preferred to do wrap or with price tags from Target of Anglo-American it their own way, A TALE OF TRASH and Wal-Mart on them. pop music and build whether it was how Urban legend had it that in 1983 video So a legend was proven true. But in its place a more they recorded or game giant Atari buried millions of what about the archaeology? And subversive version distributed their copies of its notorious flop, E.T. — of the bourgeois life. music or promoted what should be done with the artifacts where they were The Extra-Terrestrial, in a landfill in recovered and the stories they held? Punk archaeologists, going to play. the New Mexico desert. Trucked over As we examined the all archaeologists for from Atari’s warehouse that matter, excavate, Punk archaeology recovered games, we in El Paso, Texas, and DID YOU KNOW? / destroying the very is all about impro- The science of photogram- spoke to the crowd and dumped, the games sat object that they seek visation and seren- metry, which merges to the media. Traditional among heaps of trash, to study. dipitous invention photos, landmarks and archaeological digs and in the field, allow- subject to nightly thefts geometry, was used excavations rarely have ing archaeologists by adventurous kids who during the Atari burial ground excavation. public onlookers, but we to forgo tradition in would sneak in and grab order to document welcomed the audi- SPONTANEITY: from the pile, until every- space, place and ence, sharing what we found. Punk Punk music thing was finally driven over with heavy the past. archaeology is public archaeology. thrived on a kind of machinery and covered with a slurry of And while the Internet usually takes creative chaos. concrete and alternating layers of sand a passing interest in archaeological Punk archaeology and garbage. projects, typically leaving any news thrives on its own PLACE IS The facts and fiction of the tale had of discoveries to professional journals willingness to dis- IMPORTANT: long been debated in certain circles. tort and make some Punk music, and books, this was different. The noise. Flexible and Some rumors claimed that Atari with its ties to buried the goods to rid itself of the excavation of the Atari burial ground fluid, willing to chal- garage band trended globally on Twitter and Face- lenge and contradict game thought to have singlehandedly sound, has always book, prompting a public debate as itself and reshape intertwined the caused the video game crash of the to what archaeology is. old arguments. experience of music mid-1980s. Others said that the dump with the experience never happened. No way could a com- For all of us on-site in New Mexico, of space. Certain pany as huge as Atari do such a thing. the excavation yielded artifacts from sounds and styles Years later, online chat rooms still our recent past that had been discard- are associated ed as trash — considered artifacts with cities and continued to buzz, speculating about now because they represent a culture, other places. the truth of the legendary disposal and cover-up, with some Internet a heritage for people of a certain age. Punk archaeology, They are a statement to the corporate and archaeology conspiracy theorists claiming that in general, is in perhaps as many as 5 million games culture and mindset of a time. DID YOU KNOW? / so many ways a And now, they are recognized for University of Arizona’s Gar- had been buried, still entombed bology Project, begun by science of place. beneath a solid concrete slab. their significance by the likes of insti- professor William Rathje in Finally, 30 years after the supposed tutions such as The Henry Ford, the the 1990s, sought not only event, a film production company Smithsonian Institution, the Strong to see what happened to Museum of Play and the Vigamus objects after they became secured the rights from the city of trash but also to learn what Alamogordo to excavate the old landfill video game museum, all of which modern American culture as part of the documentary Atari: Game accepted items recovered from the treated as garbage. Over on the video game crash. When Atari burial ground as part of their I learned of this agreement, I wrote to collections — once again giving further READ Digging Atari, Fuel Entertainment to see how they legitimacy to the legend, the dig and the yet-to-be- planned to manage the “archaeology” the recovered items as important published book about the of the excavation. A few months later, artifacts in the study of 1980s pop Atari excava- our team was invited to participate. culture and human history. l tion and punk archaeologyc ONLINE Visit punkarchaeology.wordpress.comc Visit Punk Archaeology at mediterraneanworld.wordpress.com/ 2014/09/30/punk-archaeology-the-bookc Visit archaeogaming.com to learn more about the archaeology of (and in) video gamesc Read curator Kristen Gallerneaux’s blog post about the Atari artifacts tinyurl.com/otf6q6vc

38 JANUARY-MAY 2016 PUNK GOES MAINSTREAM Since the success of the Atari burial ground exca- vation, other punk archae- COLLECTIONS ology projects focusing on the present and recent past are in the works. BIZARRE The Henry Ford is known for its astute collection of 1 TRASH CAN CHAIR 4 BALLOT CHADS 300 years of American history and innovation, but (EAMES-WILLS, 1949) Pulled from inside a that doesn’t mean there isn’t a bit of the curious and A reminder that messi- voting machine in Palm obscure — i.e., the punk — in some past picks and ness and tentative first Beach County, Florida, acquisitions made by its curators, former and present. steps are part of every in 2000, the year of the A sampling of some of the more peculiar: good design process. hanging chad and mass THE MAN CAMPS OF The Eames-designed confusion over a now- THE BAKKEN OIL FIELDS plastic chairs that have infamous U.S. presidential IN NORTH DAKOTA found their way into election. everywhere had to start Punk archaeologists are 1 somewhere. 5 JAR OF CAVIAR studying the settlement Food and its preparation, patterns, history and 2 CIRCUS BANDAGE preservation and packag- archaeology of these Worn by Joyce Ann Hall ing tell an important story temporary labor housing of Ohio after her state- of our past. The Romanoff settlements that spring required blood test to name associated with fine up in oil boom counties obtain a wedding license caviar for more than 175 to lure workers. in 1961. A symbol of years. Eggs still entombed impending matrimony for in glass and metal. a member of the Western world’s Silent Generation. 6 THE DOUGHNUT An item of interest in 3 BROKEN LIGHT BULB the June-December (1878-1887) 2015 issue of The Henry Trash in most cases, Ford Magazine (see Page except when it’s excavated 88), this petrified pastry ARCHAEOGAMING from the original site of memorialized a family’s Thomas Edison’s Menlo loss of a mother for more Andrew Reinhard is Park Laboratory, where the than a century. studying the intersec- world’s first incandescent tion of video games and light bulb made its illumi- archaeology. He continues nating debut. to explore the material culture of games such as World of Warcraft and 5 Elder Scrolls Online, while taking special interest in machine-created culture 6 where artifacts and 3 architecture are created by code.

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Because punk archaeology also covers the history of punk rock, the collective 4 is starting the NYC Punk project, which will pho- tograph and map historic punk venues throughout New York City, comparing the old structures with 2 what they have become and collecting oral his- tories of those who have played these venues and of the people who now FROM THE HENRY FORD ARCHIVE OF AMERICAN inhabit the spaces. INNOVATION™

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Architects for social impact look, listen and then create experiences that restore community, human dignity and eventually evoke change

By Julie Wolfson

40 JANUARY-MAY 2016 thehenryford.org 41 Many architects today are discovering that success doesn’t necessarily depend DESIGN on talent, vision or how you apply learned design practices in the WITH real world. Much of one’s success, in fact, relies on an ability to listen to and empa- DIMENSION thize with the needs of the community you’re trying to serve. And oftentimes, these needs aren’t simple, pretty or cut-and-dried. Architect Michael Maltzan faced such a situ- ation when he was brought on board to build an apartment building in downtown Los Angeles for the homeless. While many of today’s homeless shelters and low-income houses seem drab and without character or aesthetic beauty, Maltzan’s Star Apartments is just the opposite. The striking modular-shaped structure adds visual impact to the neighborhood. And while most homeless housing is focused on the much-needed concept of basic shelter — without extra amenities or attention to detail — Maltzan’s design includes a community space with a state-of-the-art kitchen, an edible garden, exercise classrooms, art studios and a basketball court built on the top level of what was once a parking structure. “I feel that carefully thought-out designs can contribute to a person’s rehabilitation,” said Maltzan, who understands the power of shelter and safety to help transform a life from uncertain to hopeful. “Whether it’s a single-family home, a museum or a school, you have to bring your high- IWAN BAAN est level of design and focus on what makes the individual program unique.”c

DID YOU KNOW? / Michael Maltzan’s Star Apartments (at left) in LA were designed and built using an innovative prefab building process, where entire units are constructed off-site and shipped, reducing construction waste and making building in tight urban areas faster and easier.

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Residents of Star Apartments Davis returned to school and describe the feeling of having what completed a drug and alcohol studies most overlook everyday — a front program and became certified as a door with a lock, a doorbell, running mental health peer specialist for the water — as life altering. Skid Row Housing Trust. Actions, he Kenneth Davis is a peer counselor said, that are a direct result of having at the Skid Row Housing Trust, which a place he could call home. “I see the built Star Apartments in 2013. He is same effect of permanent, supportive also a resident of the complex. “Once housing in residents. Eyes glowing in I moved in and closed my door, my life the groups that I facilitate, eager to flashed before me,” said Davis, who participate from a good night’s sleep on had to transition from a life behind a soft bed. I’ve seen mental illness and bars and then on the streets to living addiction addressed and tackled daily in his own apartment. “At 49 years because of the power of a locked door.” old, I finally had my own closed door. Add in the fact that the Skid Row This made me feel as safe as others in Housing Trust also provides on-site society. It was phenomenal to hear my access to health care and job training doorbell. It was music to my ears. The services, and that makes Star Apart- effect my home had on me: It gave ments, as well as the trust’s two-dozen me tranquility. I did not want to go other buildings, a successful working backwards in life ever again.” example of design for social impact.c

IWAN BAAN ACTION AFTER THE AFTERMATH The Los Angeles riots of 1992 changed things. They left a city with more than 50 people dead, thousands of others injured and building after building burned, looted and destroyed. More than that, people felt changed. Afraid, angry, uneasy and even uncertain of those whose job it was to protect them. LA architect Michael Maltzan was feeling these emotions, too. “Like a lot of architects in LA, I was deeply torn apart watching the city that you have worked and loved and cared about quite literally tear itself apart,” he said. Not willing to sit back and watch the dismal aftermath unfold, Maltzan took action in the form of Inner-City Arts, a youth arts education institu- tion in the Skid Row neighborhood of downtown Los Angeles. “I felt like it was, at its core, trying to reinvent the IWAN BAAN city in a positive and optimistic and progressive way,” said Maltzan. “For me, that was paralleling exactly what I believed architecture could do.” Through subsequent building phases, the campus has grown to be a state-of-the-art center for the children of Los Angeles to take classes in art, ceramics, photography, drama, film, music and animation. Studios for dance, graphic design and robotics exist as well. Every addition to Inner-City Arts, down to a change of a doorway, is designed by and lovingly looked after by Maltzan, who sees future architects with an affinity for social causes in the making.

PERSONAL SANCTUARY Architect Michael Maltzan’s Star Apartments complex is more than a cluster of units providing shelter. Instead, it is a community for living with (clockwise from left) a lush garden, colorful kitchens and a welcoming street-side presence.

DAVE LAURIDSEN DAVE LAURIDSEN 42 JANUARY-MAY 2016 “I’ve seen mental illness and addiction addressed and tackled daily because of the power of a locked door.” — Kenneth Davis, Star Apartments’ resident

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CONNECT, CREATE, CHANGE underutilized street space into urban This idea that the people you are parklets and plazas that help foster designing something for have a voice neighborhood interaction, support that needs to be heard before you local businesses and reimagine city start creating is at the heart of the streets. Most are temporary interven- social impact movement seeping tions, but some, such as the Jane into the world of modern architec- Warner Plaza at Castro and Market ture. The notion that improving living streets designed by Seth Boor of Boor conditions and preserving a sense of Bridges Architecture, have become community for everyone should be permanent neighborhood fixtures. paramount before a design is drawn The temporary spaces often oc- or a foundation laid. cupy parking spots and underused Some of the most mainstream curb space, and add much-needed examples of design for social impact friendly, colorful and quaint pub- do not necessarily tackle such hard- lic gathering areas in what might hitting societal issues as homeless- otherwise be a concrete-centric ness, either. landscape. The Ocean Avenue Mobile Celebrating its fifth anniversary in Parklet, for example, made its way San Francisco, Pavement to Parks has up and down San Francisco’s Ocean made a commitment to converting Avenue, spending six months at onec COURTESY OF SAN FRANCISCO PLANNING

44 JANUARY-MAY 2016 READ The Ecology of CHANGING SPACES Commerce by Clockwise from right: The Paul Hawken, Noriega Street Parklet in an often-cited San Francisco reflects the text of inspiration community’s demographic, among those divided in two with ample interested in public areas for child’s play as well interest designc as quiet reflection. The city’s Sunset Parklet, designed by Interstice Architects, is a rich interplay of grounds, tables, benches and vegetation. Architecture interns with the Youth Art Exchange created scale models and rudimentary drawings of their dreams for the Ocean Avenue Mobile Parklet.

DID YOU KNOW? / Large cities such as Portland and New York City now have a parklet program similar to San Francisco’s Pavement to Parks. It’s called Street Seats. SAMUEL HELLER; Learn more at streetseats.org. COURTESY OF SAN FRANCISCO PLANNING

DID YOU KNOW? / The Noriega Street Parklet won a 2012 Design Award for architecture from the American MATAROZZI PELSINGER BUILDERS Institute of Architects. & WELLS CAMPBELL; COURTESY OF SAN FRANCISCO PLANNING

location before it moved to the next. more protected and intimate for the Designed and built by public high quieter and older crowds. school students who are architecture In contrast to the Noriega Street interns at the Youth Art Exchange in Parklet’s angles and sharper edges San Francisco, the parklet project is the whimsical, elongated design of introduced students to the philoso- the Sunset Parklet on Judah Street. If phies of social impact design to con- studied close enough for long enough, nect community, create commerce it looks somewhat like an ancient and beautify the neighborhood. Viking longship, with modern-day add- In San Francisco’s Outer Sunset ons, of course, such as a bike rack. District, the Noriega Street Parklet Developing the spaces between a replaces three diagonal parking spots. business and the street to help make The unique shape of the space gave cities more livable: What was once a designers the opportunity to create guerrilla idea has become institution- two separate, usable areas well suited alized with endless opportunities for to the diverse groups they knew made access and inclusion. up the community. One is larger and Parklets are now popping up every- more open for children, strollers and where, from college campuses in Iowa owners and their pets. The other is to spaces across the world in Chile.c

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LISTEN, OBSERVE, UNDERSTAND services for residents of a remote On the more serious side of design for village in Ghana. While she was there, social impact is architect Liz Ogbu of she observed men, women and chil- Studio O, who has personally created dren often standing in long lines for an entire practice revolving around public toilets. “We spent a week just solving social issues through human- talking to the people in their homes,” centered design practices. Actively said Ogbu. “We talked to moms, involved in shaping some of the pastors in churches, staff while they world’s leading public interest design worked, in order to understand what nonprofits, Ogbu is part of the inaugu- their lives were like in general.” ral class of Innovators-in-Residence At the end of this information at IDEO.org, the sister nonprofit of the gathering, Ogbu helped formulate international design firm IDEO, which plans to increase access to a pay supports spreading human-centered toilet system in public spaces that design to improve the lives of low- would aid in the sanitation issues and income communities across the globe generate much-needed revenue. (see sidebar on Page 48). “The heart of human-centered Ogbu has designed everything design is the idea of empathy. It is from thought-provoking exhibits and important to take the time to listen, resource spaces for day laborers to observe and understand people,” said public sidewalk plazas. She takes great Ogbu. “Just because someone is poor inspiration from the concepts shared does not mean that they do not have by pioneer architect Le Corbusier, who once said, “A house is a machine for desires and aspirations.” living in” as well as “The home should Ogbu stresses the value of listen- be the treasure chest of living.” ing to the challenges and responding “I have been on this long journey of with designs that solve problems. linking up what is normally taught as “Developing deep empathetic skills architecture and design to the physi- and including people as part of cal and tangibles of the containers the process of design is not social in which people live their lives,” Ogbu design, it’s just good design,” she said. “I want the process to be more added. “Whether you are building a active. I want to create more than gorgeous tower being paid for by a just the container, giving people more multibillion-dollar company or work- agency to be able to shape it.” ing on a toilet project, you are always Most recently, Ogbu found herself trying to preserve the beauty of the tackling how to upgrade sanitation project and the people it serves.” l

DID YOU KNOW? / In 2010, the MoMA hosted an exhibit called Small Scale, Big Change: New Architec- tures of Social Engagement, which highlighted schools, housing and socially responsible designs around the world.

RESEARCH The Public Interest Design Institute and the global movement SEED: Social Economic Environmental Design Network and the Structures MARTIN SECK. © 2015 THE MUSEUM for Inclusion lecture seriesc OF MODERN ART, NEW YORK

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ORGANIZED LABOR STATIONS “The heart of With more than 110,000 people looking for day-labor human-centered work each day in the U.S. (often on street corners and in parking lots), designer design is the Liz Ogbu envisions building specialized stations like the concept shown above, where idea of empathy.” individuals in search of work — Liz Ogbu, architect have shelter, meeting spaces and are treated with dignity.

RESEARCH The Enterprise Rose Architectural Fellowship, a growing network of early-career architectural and public interest designers passionate about creating green, sustainable and affordable communities enterprisecommunity.comc

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NADA MAANI COURTESY OF IDEO.ORG PUBLIC INTEREST DESIGN’S NEXT IN LINE Portland State University is one of the first U.S. schools to have a Public Interest Design Certificate Program. Nada Maani is one of the first to have this certifi- DESIGN KIT cate in hand. She represents a growing group of students who want to study TAKES GOLD the fundamentals of architecture but also want to learn how it can have more IDEO.ORG’S ONLINE PLATFORM IMPRESSES societal impact. The Henry Ford Magazine recently talked to Maani. Born and raised in TOUGH JURY OF IDSA EXPERTS Amman, Jordan, the recent grad shared how she hopes to use her skills to solve challenges faced by refugees around the world. An International Design IDEO.org is the sister “Jordan is a country where a lot of refugees come from Iraq, Palestine Excellence Award (IDEA) nonprofit of the interna- and Syria. Being far away, I feel helpless. To me, this is a way of contributing isn’t easy to win. A jury tional design firm IDEO. and making life easier for refugees. I want to be a part of that conversation,” of 24 internationally Its Design Kit is actu- she said. known design experts ally an online platform While Maani has all the paper credentials — graduate studies in architecture, (all members of the for learning the methods a thesis about designing for refugees, the Public Interest Design Certificate — Industrial Designers and mindsets of human- she knows that what’s most fundamental to design for social impact is the act Society of America) look centered design. It offers of listening, having empathy and understanding firsthand the needs of a com- at hundreds of entries in seven videos featuring munity. Recently, Maani visited a refugee camp in Jordan, where she observed an array of categories. experts on the philosophy how women and children were often holed up inside all day for safety reasons. For the past five years, of human-centered design; Her vision after that visit is to design permanent housing units and commu- this jury has gathered at guidance on more than nity spaces that offer contained courtyards and gathering spaces to help match The Henry Ford in late 50 design methods, with the life these families had before war and unrest uprooted them. “Architecture spring/early summer to concrete examples of these should reflect a lifestyle,” said Maani. “I want to take these refugee camps that mull over the submis- methods in action; and are designed to be temporary and reimagine them to become resilient.” sions, debate each entry’s case studies demonstrat- merit and pick the best ing successful implemen- of the best. Acting as a tation in the field. judge and the curator who In April 2015, IDEO.org gets to pick the winner of also launched the next the program’s Curator’s evolution of its success- Choice Award is The ful HCD Toolkit, which Henry Ford’s Chief Cura- debuted in 2009. The Field tor Marc Greuther. Guide to Human-Centered In 2015, Greuther and Design is somewhat of a company had to judge book version of Design Kit. 621 finalists, eventually With 192 pages, the guide picking 28 gold, 53 silver outlines how design can and 83 bronze winners. change lives and includes On the list of those that a full slate of worksheets grabbed the gold was and case studies from IDEO.org’s Design Kit. It projects that successfully won the top prize in the encompass human-cen- award program’s Social tered design practices and Impact category. philosophies.

Visit IDEO.org’s online design platform at designkit. org. Download a free PDF or purchase a hard copy of The Field Guide to Human-Centered Design at designkit.org/ resources/1. DID YOU KNOW? / The Henry Ford’s Chief Curator Marc Greuther awarded the 2015 International Design Excellence Award (IDEA) program’s Curator’s Choice Award to Flip Reel by Squiddies. Flip Reel is a modern take on the ancient art of handline fishing. Learn more at idsa.org/awards/ COURTESY OF PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY idea/flip-reel-squiddies.

48 JANUARY-MAY 2016 “WHETHER YOU ARE BUILDING A GORGEOUS TOWER BEING PAID FOR BY A MULTIBILLION- DOLLAR COMPANY OR WORKING ON A TOILET PROJECT, YOU ARE ALWAYS TRYING TO PRESERVE THE BEAUTY OF THE PROJECT AND THE PEOPLE IT SERVES.” — Liz Ogbu, architect

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thehenryford.org 51 INSIDE THE HENRY FORD HENRY FORD MUSEUM DID YOU KNOW? / The heat treatment applied to Dymaxion House’s alumi- num parts was the first time such a treatment was used by museum conservators to diminish opportunities for further deterioration of A FULLER historic aluminum artifacts. VISION The restoration of Dymaxion House gives more context to one man’s iconic design dream for domestic dwellings

historic house restoration The most common material in the Dymaxion often requires the help of an House, and the one that poses the greatest expert. Restoring a one-of- conservation challenges, is aluminum. The a-kind house designed by a lightweight material was used in every pos- A world-famous inventor that sible application, from the floor’s structure to is suspended off the ground the roof panels, even the closets. requires a team of them. While some institutions would put such a R. Buckminster Fuller built his first Dymaxion rare artifact away for safekeeping or design a House in 1946. He envisioned the 1,000-square- display that kept visitors at bay, The Henry Ford foot aluminum dome as the house of the future, invested $1 million in a restoration project that challenging all preconceived notions of “home.” would open the house to the public. Open as in Produced in an aircraft factory and constructed visitors could walk through the front door, tour from aluminum-copper alloys typically used in rooms and experience the domed dwelling World War II aircraft, the inexpensive house was from the inside out. lightweight — less than three tons — and its The painstaking process required close cage hung from a suspended mast in its center. analysis of more than 3,600 parts related Fuller’s original intention was to see the to Fuller’s design within The Henry Ford’s house mass-produced, with parts shipped to collection. Methods from X-ray diffraction buyers and assembled by laborers in a mere and scanning electron microscopy to energy two days. A modern-day solution to the need dispersive spectrometry were used to analyze for fast, affordable housing born of the indus- corrosion. A heat treatment was also applied trial production boom post-World War II. to aluminum parts to stunt further deterioration. Fuller never, however, resolved certain The final restored product now on display in engineering challenges and abandoned Henry Ford Museum includes components from the project. For decades, the architectural Fuller’s two completed prototypes, some of his wonderments of Dymaxion were only iconic to individual trial systems and new components architects and historians. Until the family of a fabricated by The Henry Ford. former Fuller investor donated the only existing The basic tenets of conservation were Dymaxion prototype, which was abandoned in always paramount in the decision-making rural Kansas, to The Henry Ford in 1990. process of the team of curators and conserva- “The linchpin of this house is the design pro- tors overseeing the restoration project, all of cess. We were collecting that process,” Clara them taking into account the artifact and its Deck, senior conservator at The Henry Ford, infamous designer’s personal philosophies. said of the decision to accept the donation. “The power of the restored Dymaxion House “It was interesting to us that Fuller was using aligns with Fuller’s preference for artifacts as aluminum in a way no one else ever had, but he a starting point for expressing and exploring didn’t understand the engineering principles ideas,” said Marc Greuther, chief curator and we do now. He was obsessed with producing senior director of historical resources at The the lightest-weight structure, using the least Henry Ford. “He understood that the physical “You know, this amount of materials, comprising the most immediacy of objects provided a shared begin- amount of volume. This house was the first ning, whereas ideas expressed in written form might be the way encapsulation of his notions.” were often subject to variant interpretation.” we could construct buildings on Mars.” ONLINE For more information, hours and pricing, DID YOU KNOW? / — NASA’s Charles Elachi visit thehenryford.org/museumc Dymaxion House was named for its properties: dynamic, on Dymaxion House maximum and tension. ONLINE INTO DESIGN? Subscribe to THF OnDesign at FROM THE HENRY FORD ARCHIVE OF thehenryford.org/enewsc AMERICAN INNOVATION™

52 JANUARY-MAY 2016 FIXIN’ TIME In 2012, an inspection of the Dymaxion House revealed crack- ing in the floor beams, the result of thousands of visitors traipsing through it annually. “This meant we had to close the house to the public,” said Clara Deck, senior conservator at The Henry Ford. The expertise needed for the repair project wasn’t hard to find. Skilled contractors and expert volunteers were eager to help, much of the work done at cost or pro bono. Throughout the repair process, it was a tight balance between the need to conserve the object’s original intent and the desire to restore it to an interactive museum exhibit. Final decisions often befuddled the third-party team doing some of the work. Volunteer Ford Motor Company technicians, for example, couldn’t understand why The Henry Ford wouldn’t just shore up the house and build a foundation. “The fact that the deck is hovering off the floor is fundamental,” noted Deck. “We want people to see that it really is a suspended house as Fuller intended. As conservators, we have to stand back and say: What is significant about this object? What are the elements we’ll do everything in our power to preserve, and what can we change?” Once the cracking was repaired, the museum instituted a testing process to ensure the house would maintain its integrity in the face of heavy use. Deck is often invited to international conservation conferences to speak about this process. “I’m amazed how well the house has held up,” she added. “I’m really proud of it. It’s a beautiful object that continues to elicit the most interesting observations.”

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aThe Henry Ford reassembled its collection of Dymaxion House components and fabricated parts as closely as possible to Buckminster Fuller’s first prototype.

thehenryford.org 53 INSIDE THE HENRY FORD GREENFIELD VILLAGE GARAGE ART Model T mechanics are restoration artists in their own right

Henry Ford has a fleet of 14 cars would make any hobbyist pull their hair Ford Model T’s, 12 of which out. Doors opening and shutting with each ride thousands of visitors ride. Kids sliding across the seats wearing The along the streets of Green- on the upholstery,” said Kennedy. Vehicles field Village every year. often go through a set of tires every year. With each ride, a door Most hobbyist-owned Model T’s have the slams, shoes skid across the same set for three-plus decades. floorboards, seats are bounced on, gears are With the heavy toll taken on the vehicles, shifted, tires meet road, pedals are pushed, the T Shed’s staff often makes small, yet handles are pulled and so on. Makes main- important, mechanical changes to the cars taining the cars and preserving the visitor to ensure they can keep up. “We have some experience a continuous challenge. subtle things we can do to make them work “These cars get very harsh use,” said Ken better for our purpose,” said Kennedy. Gear Kennedy, antique vehicle mechanic and T ratios, for example, are adjusted since the Shed specialist at The Henry Ford. “Between cars run slow — the speed limit in Greenfield 150,000 and 180,000 people a year ride in Village is 15 miles per hour, maximum. “The them. Each car gives a ride every five to seven cars look right for the period, but these are the minutes, with the longest route just short of a things we can do to make our lives easier.” mile. This happens for nine months a year.” In the off-season, when Greenfield Village The T Shed is the 3,600-square-foot garage is closed, the T Shedders shift toward more on the grounds of Greenfield Village where heavy mechanical work, replacing uphol- repairs, restoration and maintenance magic happen. Kennedy, who holds a degree in resto- stery tops and fenders, and tearing down ration from McPherson College in Kansas, leads and rebuilding engines. While Kennedy may the shed’s team of staff and volunteers — many downplay the restoration, even the conserva- car-restoration hobbyists just like him. tion, underpinnings of the work happening “I basically turned my hobby into a career,” in the shed, the mindset and philosophy are quipped Kennedy, who began restoring cars certainly ever present. long before college. His first project: a 1926 “Most of the time we’re not really restoring, two-door Model T sedan. “I also have a 1916 but you still have to keep in mind authentic- Touring and a 1927 Willys-Knight. And I’m ity and what should be,” he said. “It’s not just working on a Model TT truck,” he added. about what will work. You have to keep the April through December, the shed is hum- correctness. We can do some things that ming, doing routine maintenance and repairs aren’t seen, where you can adjust. But where on the Model T’s as well as a few Model AA it’s visible, we have to maintain what’s period- trucks that round out Greenfield Village’s correct. We want to keep the engines sounding working fleet. “What the public does to these right, looking right.”

ONLINE For more information, hours and pricing, DID YOU KNOW? / visit thehenryford.org/villagec The No. 7 locomotive began operation in Greenfield Village to help commemorate Henry ONLINE INTO AUTOS? Ford’s 150th birthday in 2013. Subscribe to THF OnWheels at thehenryford.org/enewsc

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54 JANUARY-MAY 2016 aT Shed’s Barry Jecewski preps a partially disassembled Ford Model T for a little TLC, which will include an engine inspection and a new coat of varnish on its wooden panels and parts.

RESTORATION IN THE ROUND Tom Fisher, Greenfield Village’s chief mechanical officer, has been restoring and maintaining The Henry Ford’s steam locomo- tives since 1988. “It was a temporary fill-in; I thought I’d try it,” Fisher said of joining The Henry Ford team 28 years ago while earning an engineering degree. He now oversees a staff with similarly circuitous routes — some with degrees in history, some in engineering, some with no degree at all. Most can both engineer a steam-engine train and repair one on-site in Greenfield Village’s roundhouse. “As a group, we’re very well rounded,” said Fisher. “One of the guys is a genius with gas engines — our switcher has a gas engine, so I was happy to get him. One guy is good with air brake systems. We feel them out, see where they’re good and then push them toward that.” Fisher’s team’s most significant restoration effort: the Detroit & Lima Northern No. 7. Henry Ford’s personal favorite, this locomotive was formerly in Henry Ford Museum and took nearly 20 years to get back on the track. “We had to put on our ‘way-back’ hats and say this is what we think they would have done,” said Fisher. No. 7 is one of three steam locomotives running in Greenfield Village. As with the Model T’s, maintaining these machines is a balance between preserving historical integrity and modernizing out of necessity. “A steam locomotive is constantly trying to destroy itself,” Fisher said. “It wears its parts all out in the open. The daily firing of the boiler induces stresses into the metal. There’s a constant renewal of parts.” Parts that Fisher and his team painstakingly fabricate, cast and fit with their sturdy hands right at the roundhouse.

dHenry Ford’s favorite steam-engine locomotive — the Detroit & Lima Northern No. 7 — is fitted with new pipes in Greenfield Village’s roundhouse.

thehenryford.org 55 INSIDE THE HENRY FORD FORD ROUGE FACTORY TOUR HOUSE OF GLASS Restored architectural gem stands out in its industrial space

don’t usually associate large window glass, for example, had come from manufacturing factories Europe, so the restoration team reached out with architectural beauty. overseas to the original manufacturer for the You Sightseers at the Ford Rouge glass to replace the windows. Entry doors to Complex’s glass plant, a fire station that was part of the building’s however, might be inclined layout were also replaced to replicate those to think otherwise. of the original specs. This plant looks different. No concrete, only “It’s beautiful,” Cynthia Jones, The Henry rivets and steel. From inside, the high roof and FROM THE HENRY FORD ARCHIVE OF Ford’s Ford Rouge Factory Tour manager, AMERICAN INNOVATION™ floor-to-ceiling windows create an unusually said of the glass plant today. “There’s lots of airy, spacious atmosphere. Natural light can’t natural light, and even though the fire station help but stream in, creating a softness and doors are in an area the public doesn’t see, bThe Ford Rouge’s glass plant, easy glow. an Albert Kahn design, was Designed by famed American industrial restoring them showed respect for the continu- built in 1923 as a production architect Albert Kahn, the Ford Rouge’s glass ing history of the site.” facility. Today, the restored plant was built in 1923 as an automotive glass- Today, the glass plant is a house for innova- structure is a place where new automotive innovations production facility. “It was about achieving tion, used for prototyping by Ford engineers are dreamed up. volume,” Don Pijor, launch manager at the and designers. As a result of its newfound Dearborn Truck Plant and site expert for the purpose, the building’s glass at the lower COURTESY OF FORD MOTOR COMPANY ARCHIVES glass plant, said of the building’s original levels is frosted so outsiders can’t see the design. “This space was built with steel confidential work being done inside. columns riveted together, which gives it Said Jones of balancing the building’s histori- much more usable real estate.” cal integrity with its modern uses, “When you’re In the late ‘90s, the 40,000-square-foot making choices about restoring buildings, you building was taken out of the complex’s look at product — what is it we’re making at production equation, its sweeping windows this place and what does it need? You’re also covered with aluminum and its new primary employee-driven because if they can’t do their purpose as a warehouse. job well here, changes have to be made. Third, When the restoration process began in how does it affect the area around it? I think the mid-2000s, the original intent was to transition the building into office space. Pijor this site has that balance.” later helped persuade Ford Motor Company Though the effectiveness of the plant’s leadership to put the plant to better use as a current functions are at the forefront of any prove-out and employee training building for decision-making about its form, preserving its the Ford F-150, the truck built at the Rouge’s history is meaningful for the people who work Dearborn Truck Plant. there as well as for posterity. Added Pijor, “To sit Careful decisions were made at every in this space and watch flaming ore cars go by, corner during the restoration. The building’s it’s as if it has been like this for 100 years.”

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56 JANUARY-MAY 2016 NATIONAL HISTORIC LANDMARK The Ford Rouge Complex was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1978. The rare designation (with just 2,500 historic landmarks nationwide) usually restricts future changes to a site. The Ford Rouge Complex, however, is recognized as remaining in continual operation, which means the designation can be maintained even as the site continues to evolve. “It’s important for the public to be aware” of the designation, said Cynthia Jones, The Henry Ford’s Ford Rouge Factory Tour manager. The designation is marked at the complex’s entry with a plaque and a statue of Henry Ford. Summer 2015 marked 100 years since Ford started acquiring the property which the Rouge now inhabits. “We’re carving out space within this giant industrial complex to recognize its history and the history of the hundreds of thousands of people that have been employed here,” said Jones.

thehenryford.org 57 INSIDE THE HENRY FORD GIANT SCREEN EXPERIENCE bMountaineer Conrad Anker climbs frozen waterfalls in Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore in Michigan. Anker’s extreme exploits are just some of those documented in National Parks Adventure, the film that will open the Giant Screen Experience this spring.

COURTESY OF MACGILLIVRAY FREEMAN FILMS. PHOTOGRAPHER: BARBARA MACGILLIVRAY THEATER ©VISITTHEUSA.COM ELITE The Henry Ford reinvents its movie house, going giant size to superscale the imagination

a theater shutters its doors, • Fun themed series will be offered select it’s usually a bad thing, right? evenings and weekends as well — such as Not at The Henry Ford. At the classic Hollywood movies, interactive kids’ When end of December 2015, the programming, holiday celebrations and more. IMAX Theatre showed its final • More than just presentations on a theater performance of the year and screen, the new Giant Screen Experience will then closed its doors. Rest include pop-up programming throughout the easy, though, it’s just a temporary shutdown. year that will give theatergoers the opportunity In fact, it was done with great anticipation and to interact and ask questions of experts and excitement, because this spring the theater’s thought leaders. doors will reopen to wow visitors with what’s • If you’re local, look for the Giant Screen in now being called the Giant Screen Experience. the showtime listings as it becomes the The grand opening date had not been set newest venue in this year’s Cinetopia. Based in stone as this publication went to print, but in Ann Arbor and Detroit, this international here’s some of the news, rumors and stats film festival brings the best of the best of surrounding what’s coming. the world’s top film festivals to the region. Cinetopia runs June 3-12 with select days/ • The Giant Screen Experience will still deliver showtimes at the Giant Screen Experience. a year-round calendar of programming And for filmophiles, member discounts are geared toward exploring the people, places, available not just on-site, but for all Cinetopia themes and ideas that bring the American screenings around town. experience to life. “This will be Michigan’s most interesting • Expect new state-of-the-art enhancements theater experience, with unique titles, expert with Christie 4K digital projection in 2-D and insights and programming that will provide 3-D, as well as a new sound system, a new deeper connections to the other experiences silver screen and new seats (see Page 59). at The Henry Ford,” said Amy Louise Liedel, • Live presentations and behind-the-scenes senior director of theater and guest operations insights with be available with select oppor- at The Henry Ford. tunities throughout the year. • Yes, traditional educator series (including Teacher’s Choice) are still part of the planned content.

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58 JANUARY-MAY 2016 IMPROVEMENTS IN THE ROOM A myriad of systems and furnish- ings are being updated to create the Giant Screen Experience. Some quick stats and facts: DIGITAL PROJECTORS Christie 4K digital projection (2-D and 3-D), with MasterImage 3-D technology and high frame rate capability SOUND SYSTEM QSC audio system with 5.1 channels of surround sound and Doremi CaptiView closed- captioning system SEATING More than 400 larger, more comfortable seats by Irwin Seating Company SCREEN New MDI Premium HGA silver screen for improved resolution and brightness

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aFORGOTTEN IN A FIELD Montgomery City DID YOU KNOW? / Preserving Bus Lines Company The Henry Ford’s Bus #2857 sat among conservation team has a Our Rights stock of replacement seats the grasses for more and parts for Bus #2857, The re-emergence of than 30 years. The allowing for quick Rosa Parks’ bus neglected artifact in repairs when needed. which Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat.

aIT COMES BY CRATE Carefully uncrated in a house Saving a where Abraham Lincoln once practiced law, the Moment rocking chair where our 16th in Time president sat and was shot

Taking care of Lincoln’s chair comes to Greenfield Village.  Logan County Courthouse, Greenfield Village

aSOCKS, SHIRTS DID YOU AND BRITCHES KNOW? / Reliving Wool spinning on a The chickens that working wheel was reside in the Mattox History women’s work. Making Home’s coop are rare Dominiques. Recognized Daily life of decades ago yarn for creating fashion as America’s first chicken down on the farms 1760s style. breed. Also known as Daggett Farmhouse, “dime and nickels.” Greenfield Village

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60 JANUARY-MAY 2016 MAINTAINING A MESSAGEc c A SYMBOL RENEWED The woman and her moment Once rescued, the question in 1955 that sparked the civil is to restore or conserve? rights movement is memorial- Layers of paint, corroded metal ized and properly preserved, and missing seats weigh in appreciated by more than favor of repaint and replace. 1 million visitors each year. A complete restoration. With Liberty and Justice for All, Henry Ford Museum

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aUPHOLDING aSEALED FOR SAFETY THE UPHOLSTERY DID YOU KNOW? / Now entombed in a humidity- Henry Ford filmed the The addition of a fine controlled case with regulated arrival and unpacking of polyester fabric holds light for added protection. Still the crate carrying President fragments together, Lincoln’s chair to visible for all to see. Greenfield Village in 1930. protecting the chair’s With Liberty and Justice tinyurl.com/p5vg38ec satin and historically for All, Henry Ford Museum significant stains.

BILL BOWEN aBACKYARD GROCER aLABOR IN THE FIELDS Okra, corn, radishes, greens Southern plantations thrived and hens in the hen house. In growing tobacco, the back- the 1880s house of an African- breaking work of enslaved American family in Georgia, African-Americans in the 1860s. groceries came farm-to-table from right outside the door. Susquehanna Plantation, Greenfield Village Mattox Family Home Kitchen Garden, Greenfield Village

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Face up. Charcoal and pastel drawings Roll with it. Don’t attempt to With attention and special care, 3 should be facing forward, in a box, minus 4 flatten tightly rolled treasures. 5 you can enjoy and preserve your other stuff. No plastic, please, or you’ll Better to keep them in their curl. treasures for years to come. have pigment loss.

thehenryford.org 61 INSIDE THE HENRY FORD ACQUISITIONS + COLLECTIONS A WELCOME SIGN New panel from 1964 World’s Fair helps preserve a nation’s introduction to a computer-friendly world

to the 1964 New York World’s “The ephemeral nature of those fairs was Fair’s IBM Pavilion were sub- such that most of the displays — and even merged in a futuristic world the architecture — would be dismantled Visitors made possible by comput- after the fair was over,” said Gallerneaux, ers. A world imaginatively who learned about the panel in an article on conjured up by an intricately antique pricing. “But Siemion, as a manager, detailed fake newspaper with was invited to take home part of the pavilion the headline “Computer Day at Midvale!” as a memento. We’re lucky that he chose to The one-of-a-kind aluminum panel was salvage this panel and that his children knew created by the Eames Office, the studio of to hold onto it all these years.” famed designers Charles and Ray Eames. The Eames Office employees who designed Hand-painted with imagined newspaper the pavilion are listed on the newspaper’s left in headlines and draped with patriotic bunting, a credits area. The panel is among several IBM it hung on the back of one of the pavilion’s Pavilion-related objects The Henry Ford has “Little Theatres” and was surrounded by acquired and the third such artifact associated lights, intended to lure visitors to come and with Charles and Ray Eames. watch the mechanical puppet show about “Charles and Ray Eames were fascinated Midvale on the other side. with the circus and early Americana, and “The themes in the Midvale panel, and the there’s a wonderful sense of these themes IBM Pavilion on the whole, document a critical coming together with high technology in the moment where people were being exposed to panel,” Gallerneaux said. “The IBM Pavilion was the culture of computing on a mass scale,” said Kristen Gallerneaux, The Henry Ford’s curator of designed to send you into another head space communications and information technology. so you could synthesize the concepts coming “Accessible systems like the IBM/360 were just together at the time. It was an interesting around the corner, whose adoption would touch collision of computing history and design (and potentially disrupt) the lives of informa- history happening in one place.” tion and office workers. IBM needed to address From a conservation standpoint, the panel, this wariness of technology — they needed to well maintained by its owners, only required humanize computers. The company found their minimal treatments. “It’s interesting to think solution in the playful visual communication about the public as stewards of material skills of the Eames Office.” culture,” Gallerneaux said. “We acquire a lot Last year, The Henry Ford acquired the of interesting collection items that way.” aluminum panel from its original owners, The “Computer Day at Midvale” panel whose father, Robert Charles Siemion, had will appear in a future exhibit at The Henry worked as an engineer and manager at the Ford about communications and information 1964 IBM Pavilion. technology.

ONLINE For more information about the collections of The DID YOU KNOW? / Henry Ford, visit collections.thehenryford.orgc The 1964 New York World’s Fair featured 140 pavilions spread over 646 acres. ONLINE FASCINATED BY TECHNOLOGY? Subscribe to THF OnMaking at thehenryford.org/enewsc FROM THE HENRY FORD ARCHIVE OF AMERICAN INNOVATION™ 62 JANUARY-MAY 2016 EAMES AT THE FAIR The Henry Ford recently acquired three significant artifacts designed by Charles and Ray Eames for dis- play at the 1964 New York World’s Fair IBM Pavilion. In addition to the aluminum panel acquired last year: ACQUIRED IN 2013 THE IBM WORLD’S FAIR KIOSK Designed by Charles and Ray Eames for use at the IBM Pavilion, this colorful kiosk, one of only two known to survive, is made of iron, walnut and plastic laminate. At the fair, it housed interactive exhibits from the Eames-designed Mathematica exhibit. The kiosk is currently on view on the exhibit floor in Henry Ford Museum. ACQUIRED IN 2015 MATHEMATICA Components of this interactive exhibit were designed for the 1964 New York World’s Fair. Created with funding from IBM, Mathematica uses models, kinetic installations, imagery and interaction to explain mathematical principles and applications. Only two other versions of the exhibit still exist. Mathematica is scheduled to go on permanent exhibit in Henry Ford Museum in 2017.

At top: The IBM World’s Fair Kiosk assembled in Henry Ford Museum. Conservation specialist Louise Flory (above) inspects a panel from the Mathematica exhibit.

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Come on. Look under our hoods. The Henry Ford is Also expect special engine-focused presenta- bringing back Engines Exposed for a limited time tions in the Driving America exhibit’s theater, linked this winter. Visitors to Henry Ford Museum can take themes during Tinker. Hack. Invent. Saturdays, talks up-close views of more than 40 vehicle engines that over a Model T engine cutaway and Henry Ford’s helped power the automotive revolution. Basically, if kitchen sink engine, plus daily runnings of the you think an engine header is a work of art, this rare massive 1859 Corliss steam engine that’s on the event is for you. museum floor.

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64 JANUARY-MAY 2016 thehenryford.org 65 THE MAGICAL HISTORY TOUR: A BEATLES MEMORABILIA EXHIBITION APRIL 30-SEPTEMBER 18, 2016 HENRY FORD MUSEUM

The Beatles changed pop culture and the world The most exhaustive Beatles exhibition ever The Magical History Tour: of music forever. Whether you were an original assembled, featuring instruments, clothing, rare A Beatles Memorabilia Exhibition is developed Beatlemaniac or you are simply inspired by their original photos, handwritten lyrics and many never- by Exhibits Development music today, you’ll experience the creativity, before-displayed artifacts. See the original Quarry- Group in collaboration love and curiosity of the Fab Four firsthand as men drum kit (John Lennon’s), an exact replica of with PMA Collective. The Magical History Tour: A Beatles Memorabilia Cavern Club and the album John Lennon signed for This exhibition is not endorsed by, sponsored Exhibition makes its U.S. premiere at The Henry Ford. his assassin just hours before he was shot and killed. by, associated with or otherwise affiliated with the Beatles, Apple Corps ONLINE visit thehenryford.org/beatlesc Ltd., or any member of the Beatles or their representatives.

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aDrum set from The Quarrymen on display at The Magical 2016 History Tour: A Beatles Memorabilia Exhibition, April 30-September 18 Events in Henry Ford Museum. YEAR-ROUND Celebrate Black Annual Salute Macy’s 2nd History to America* Mondays February 3-7, 10-14, July 1-3 w Children’s Program 17-21 and 24-28 Greenfield Village (10 a.m.-noon) Henry Ford Museum January 11, Presented by Ford Motor Historic Base Ball February 8, March 14, Company Fund Games July 2-3, 9-10, 16-17, April 11, November 14, MAY JUNE December 12 APRIL 23-24 and 30-31 The Magical History The Magical History Henry Ford Museum Giant Screen Greenfield Village Experience Grand Tour: A Beatles Tour: A Beatles May 9, June 13, Reopening Memorabilia Memorabilia Maker Faire® July 11, August 8, Opening Spring Exhibition* Exhibition* Detroit* September 12, Giant Screen Running through Running through July 30-31 (Open October 10 Experience September 18 September 18 Saturday and Sunday Greenfield Village Henry Ford Museum Henry Ford Museum ’til 6 p.m.) w The Magical History The Henry Ford Tinker. Hack. Tour: A Beatles Member Historic Base Ball In collaboration with Invent. Saturdays Memorabilia Appreciation Days Games Make Magazine (10 a.m.-3 p.m.) Exhibition May 1 June 11-12, 18-19 and Every Saturday Member Preview The Henry Ford 25-26 AUGUST Henry Ford Museum April 29 Greenfield Village The Magical History Henry Ford Museum Outdoor Living Historic Base Ball in Green- Tour: A Beatles JANUARY Lab Tour* field Village is made possible Memorabilia May 1-October 8 through the generous support Roadside America: Member of Cynthia and Edsel B. Ford II Exhibition* Through the Lens Appreciation Days Ford Rouge Running through of John Margolies April 29-May 1 Factory Tour National Get September 18 Running through The Henry Ford Outdoors Day Henry Ford Museum January 24 Day Out With June 11 Thomas™* Henry Ford Museum The Magical History Greenfield Village Historic Base Ball Tour: A Beatles May 1, 7-8 and 14-15 Games Engines Exposed Memorabilia Greenfield Village Motor Muster August 6-7, 13-14 January 9-February 28 Exhibition* June 18-19 (Open and 20-21 Railroader’s Henry Ford Museum April 30-September 18 Saturday ’til 9 p.m.) w Greenfield Village Breakfast* Henry Ford Museum Greenfield Village The Magical History Tour: May 1, 7-8 and 14-15 World Tournament A Beatles Memorabilia Greenfield Village Summer Discovery of Historic Base Exhibition is developed by Ball® Exhibits Development Group Camp* Civil War June 20-24, June 27- August 13-14 in collaboration with PMA Remembrance Collective. This exhibition is July 1, July 11-15, Greenfield Village May 28-30 not endorsed by, sponsored July 18-22, July 25-29 Historic Base Ball in Green- by, associated with or (Open Saturday ’til and August 1-5 field Village is made possible otherwise affiliated with the 9 p.m.) w through the generous support Beatles, Apple Corps Ltd., or The Henry Ford of Cynthia and Edsel B. Ford II any member of the Beatles or Greenfield Village REAL INTEGRATED their representatives. Annual Salute SEPTEMBER to America* MLK Day** The Magical History Day Out With June 30, July 1-3 w January 18 Tour: A Beatles Thomas™* Greenfield Village Henry Ford Museum April 30-May 1 Memorabilia Admission fee waived Greenfield Village Exhibition* courtesy of Target JULY Running through The Magical History Railroader’s September 18 Tour: A Beatles FEBRUARY Breakfast* Henry Ford Museum Memorabilia Engines Exposed April 30-May 1 Exhibition* Running through Greenfield Village MICHELLE ANDONIAN 66th Annual February 28 Running through Old Car Festival Henry Ford Museum September 18 September 10-11 (Open Henry Ford Museum Saturday ’til 9 p.m.) w Greenfield Village

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Fall Flavor Weekend NOVEMBER Get an inside look September 24-25 Fashion Forward: at the experiences of Greenfield Village The Roddis The Henry Ford at Collection Preview* blog.thehenryford.org. Farmers Market November 3 w September 24 Henry Ford Museum Greenfield Village BEST VALUE! Fashion Forward: Become a member and OCTOBER The Roddis receive unlimited free Collection admission to Henry Ford Fall Flavor Weekend Museum and Greenfield November 5, 2016- October 1-2 Village. For details, Greenfield Village April 2, 2017 visit thehenryford.org/ Henry Ford Museum membership. Farmers Market October 1 Member Appreciation Days *Additional fee and/ Greenfield Village or advance reservation November 18-21 required The Henry Ford Hallowe’en in **Museum fee waived Greenfield Village* courtesy of Target October 14-16, 20-23 Members 23rd ------and 27-30 w Annual Holiday wSpecial evening hours Greenfield Village Lighting Ceremony* November 21 w during these events Hallowe’en in Henry Ford Museum Greenfield Village Presented by DFCU Financial All programs and dates Dinner Package* are subject to change. October 14-15, 20-22 Holidays in Henry and 27-29 w Ford Museum Greenfield Village November 25, 2016- BEFORE YOU VISIT January 1, 2017 dTake a look at the clothing, and discover the stories It’s a good idea to give a Henry Ford Museum behind one family’s garments found tucked away in the quick call or check online attic for decades. Fashion Forward: The Roddis Collection, to confirm dates, times and November 5, 2016-April 2, 2017. locations for all events. FROM THE HENRY FORD ARCHIVE OF AMERICAN INNOVATION™ visit thehenryford.org DECEMBER Holiday Nights call 313.982.6001 Fashion Forward: Supper with Santa The Roddis Package at A Taste Collection of History®* Running through December 2-4, 9-11, April 2, 2017 16-18 and 20-23 w Henry Ford Museum Greenfield Village

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Red Roof Inn - Detroit-Dearborn Dearborn 7 111 • 0 77

Staybridge Suites - Dearborn Dearborn 7 99 Indoor • $ (1) 35 81

Bishop-Brighton Bed & Breakfast Downriver 20 3 1 350 82

BED & York House Bed & Breakfast Dearborn 10 3 0 82 BREAKFAST

NW Oakland Camp Dearborn 45 191 Outdoor 0 82 County Outdoor Detroit Greenfield Campground/RV Park I-94 corridor 20 212 On lake • 600 82 CAMPING pavilion

*Drive time in minutes to The Henry Ford.

72 JANUARY-MAY 2016 thehenryford.org 73 The Dearborn Inn puts you at a distinct advantage of being just three blocks from The Henry Ford. Built in 1931, this 23-acre colonial REVIVE THE PLEASURE retreat offers a setting reminiscent of a classic American inn, with a OF TRAVEL. AAA four-diamond rating and the level of service and amenities you expect from Marriott.

For reservations and group bookings, call 313-271-2700 or visit DearbornInnMarriott.com

THE DEARBORN INN, A MARRIOTT HOTEL 20301 OAKWOOD BOULEVARD DEARBORN, MICHIGAN 48124

Southgate, MI

Your Comfort Is Assured… • Free Deluxe Hot Breakfast Buffet • Free Wi-Fi • Indoor Swimming Pool / Sauna / Steam Room • Large HD TVs with HD Channels • Spacious Luxury Suites with Choice of 1 King or 2 Queen Beds Henry Ford Package & Group Tour Support Available

734.287.9200 www.comfortsuitessouthgate.com The Region’s Only Hotel 18950 Northline Rd., Southgate, MI 48195 With On-Site Renewable Energy

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NEWLY UPGRADED AND REMODELED!

BY CHOICE HOTELS 6778 South Telegraph Road Taylor, Michigan 48180

ENJOY A COMFORTABLE STAY WITH OUTSTANDING HOSPITALITY! AMENITIES INCLUDE At the Comfort Inn & Suites of Taylor, we specialize in package • Jacuzzi Suites and Two-Room Suites • Free Bus Parking rates including tickets to Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield • Free Hot Deluxe Breakfast • Dry Cleaning Services Village. For your convenience, we offer a courtesy shuttle to • Free Wireless Internet Access • Guest Laundry Facility and from The Henry Ford. • Conference Room • Free Shuttle Service We’re centrally located within a few miles of The Henry Ford, • downtown Detroit and Windsor, Canada. • Indoor Heated Pool, Dry Sauna Each Room Contains Refrigerator, and Fitness Center Ironing Set, Hair Dryer, Coffee and • 42” Flat-Screen TVs & 105 Channels Coffee Maker, In-Room Safe

WWW.COMFORTINN.COM • (PHONE) 313.292.6730 • (EMAIL) [email protected]

thehenryford.org 75 Stay PRODUCTIVE. Feel REFRESHED. • Free high-speed Internet access • Complimentary hot ‘Be Our Guest’ breakfast • Comfortable spacious rooms • Business center • Fitness center • And more!

24555 Michigan Avenue Dearborn, MI 48124 (313) 562-8900 • countryinns.com/dearbornmi

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Stop by and see our new Detroit/Southgate location for yourself. You’ll see why travelers love Hampton, with amenities like our hot breakfast, free Wi-Fi, and our clean and fresh Hampton bed.

• Complimentary shuttle service to/from Henry Ford Museum and local venues • Easy access to businesses, Detroit attractions, malls, casinos, sports venues and restaurants • Indoor swimming pool and whirlpool

Hampton Inn Detroit/Southgate Michigan • Board room, meeting room and free business center 13555 Prechter Blvd. • Free hot breakfast Southgate, Michigan 48195 734.574.4000 • Free Internet access in every room www.detroitsouthgate.hamptoninn.com • Gym/fitness center use

Nice Place. Nice Price.®

® Featuring new NextGen design rooms!

Discover the newest Red Roof redesign in the Classic history flourishes at this country and the next generation of Red Roof former site of the Fort Pontchartrain. design and style. Redesigned in 2013, the hotel • Large, flat-screen TVs captures the nostalgia of its history n Complimentary airport with a contemporary style that is a transportation to/from hotel • Free Wi-Fi, local calls, long-distance calls in the continental standout in downtown Detroit. n U.S. and up to 10 fax pages in the continental U.S. • 367 guest rooms Indoor pool and spa — online reviews, Market Metrix, 2010 & 2011 • All rooms feature floor-to-ceiling n 24-hour Sheraton Fitness • #1 in Customer Satisfaction windows for beautiful views of • Superior King Rooms with large workstation, in-room n Sheraton Club Floor the riverfront or cityscape coffee, microwave and refrigerator • Complimentary Wi-Fi n Two restaurants, Cultivate • 24-hour fitness center and Connections • Free Redi-Set-Go breakfast • Valet parking only n • Children 17 and under stay free • Next door to People Mover station Complimentary Wi-Fi • Pets stay free • 15 minutes from The Henry Ford n Convenient expressway access • Top of the Pontch for fine dining to all of metropolitan Detroit and Starbucks Cafe and Ann Arbor Red Roof Detroit-Dearborn – #182 24130 Michigan Avenue • Dearborn, MI 48124 phone: 313.278.9732 TWO WASHINGTON BLVD 8000 Merriman Road DETROIT, MI 48226 Romulus, MI 48174 313.965.0200 734.729.2600 For reservations visit redroof.com or crowneplaza.com www.sheratondetroitmetroairport.com call 800.RED.ROOF (800.733.7663)

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5 minutes from The Henry Ford Across the street from Ford Motor Company World Headquarters Adjacent to Fairlane Town Center Mall 773 guest rooms, 27 suites and 62,000 square feet of meeting space On-site Giulio and Sons Restaurant, Archimedes Lounge & Brew Coffee Shop Complimentary parking, including motor coach Complimentary high-speed Internet in all guest rooms, indoor pool and fitness center Group rates available for 10 or more guest rooms at peak

600 Town Center Drive • Dearborn, MI 48126 • www.hotel-dearborn.com • 313.592.3622

5801 Southfield Freeway Detroit, MI 48228 Phone: 313-336-3340 Fax: 313-336-7037

The Perfect End to a Great Day The DoubleTree by Hilton Detroit-Dearborn is a distinctively designed hotel located minutes from The Henry Ford.

Enjoy all of the full-service features we have to offer, starting with the excellent cuisine in Grille 39, the indoor pool and state-of-the-art fitness facility, and our 12-passenger shuttle bus that will take you to and from The Henry Ford. Finish your evening relaxing in one of our signature Sweet Dreams beds.

Our hotel is consistently ranked in the top 10 for overall guest satisfaction.

Packages for The Henry Ford and assistance with group tour planning are available.

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• 308 Guest Rooms and Suites YOUR HENRY FORD EXPERIENCE • Indoor Swimming Pool and Fitness Center STARTS AT COURTYARD • TRIA Restaurant for Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner Courtyard Detroit Dearborn helps you put • Discount Tickets available at the Front Desk more play in your stay. With our Bistro bar and media pods, newly renovated and tech Courtyard by Marriott • Close to Shopping and Area Restaurants. enabled guest rooms, free WiFi, indoor pool Detroit Dearborn 5200 Mercury Drive and more, we’ll help you craft the ultimate Dearborn, MI 48126 getaway. Located just minutes from the (313) 271-1400 DearbornCourtyard.com Henry Ford and offering our very own Henry Ford Package, you’ll experience a weekend to remember. FAIRLANE PLAZA, 300 TOWN CENTER DRIVE DEARBORN, MICHIGAN Book your room or package by visiting BEHENRY.COM | 313 441 2000 DearbornCourtyard.com. IT’S A NEW STAY.

thehenryford.org 79 Bright and spacious suites in the Detroit Livonia area. news feed Two tickets to two attractions Connect with us post Free continental breakfast @thehenryford Free wireless high speed internet Fully equipped kitchens engage pincheck in Rates starting at $149 Book online: Marriott.com/DTWTL followtweetlike Use promotion code ARN status friends status link Detroit Livonia | 17450 Fox Drive Livonia, MI 48152 | 734-542-7400 upload hashtag check in connectretweethashtag blog picture link tagfriendsnews feed retweet check in comment

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• Hot Breakfast Buffet • Social Gathering Reception • Complimentary Wi-Fi • 40” Flat-Screen TV • Business Center • The Pantry • Indoor Swimming Pool • Hot Tub • Courtyard with BBQ Pits, Living Room with Big-Screen TV • Extended Stay

24105 MICHIGAN AVE. • DEARBORN, MI 48124 • 313.565.1500 • STAYBRIDGESUITES.COM

thehenryford.org 81 local reTreaT 1700 General Motors Rd. Milford, MI, 48380 Sleep well and 626 acres of rolling hills, trees dream away in a and lakes that offer a wide range Westin Heavenly® of amenities for outdoor activity. Bed before you spend a day exploring at The n 20-, 30- and 50-amp RV campsites Henry Ford. n 2 beaches and 3 stocked fishing lakes n Heated pool with lifeguards To reserve n Laundromats your room, call 866-716-8104. n Extensive 7-day recreation program for kids n Paddle boat rentals and canteen food service n 27-hole championship Mystic Creek Golf Course & Banquet Center n Adventure golf n Resort-style cabins, rustic cabins and tent rentals

©2014 Starwood Hotels & Resorts Call 248.684.6000 Worldwide, Inc. for reservations. www.campdearborn.com

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DETROIT ·Private spring-fed lake and scenic forest setting GREENFIELD Large private beach and lakeside trails RV PARK · ·Excellent boating, fishing and swimming 6680 Bunton Road Ypsilanti, MI 48197 ·Long pull-thrus and full hookups + 50 amp Holiday weekend family events PHONE 734.482.7722 · FAX 734.544.5907 ·Just 35 miles from Detroit attractions

Plan your trip and make reservations at www.detroitgreenfield.com

BIShOP - BRIghTON BED & BREaKFaST 2709 BIDDLE ST., WYANDOTTE, MI 48192

• Located in historic Wyandotte approxi- mately ten miles from The Henry Ford® • Full gourmet breakfast each morning • Three guest rooms – two are suites suitable for families of four to six • TVs with DVD players in each room • Off-street parking behind our home

WWW.BISHOP-BRIGHTONBEDANDBREAKFAST.COM PHONE 734.284.7309

82 JANUARY-MAY 2016 www.bishop-brightonbedandbreakfast.com (734) 284-7309 EXPERIENCE THE LOOK AND FEEL OF THE HOLIDAY INN SOUTHGATE

n Area’s Largest Heated Indoor n Microwave, Refrigerator and Flat-Screen Hotel Pool and Whirlpool TVs in Every Room

n Award-Winning Charlie’s Chophouse n Next Door to the YMCA with Splash Park from Memorial Day Through Labor Day n Club Charlie’s Lounge with Big-Screen TVs and Live Entertainment on Weekends n 15 Minutes to The Henry Ford

n Full Hot and Cold Breakfast Buffet Included n Complimentary Shuttle Service with SOUTHGATE a Henry Ford Package Purchased n Kids 12 and Under Eat Free with BANQUET & CONFERENCE CENTER Paying Adult (Up to 4 Children) n 24/7 Airport Shuttle 17201 NORTHLINE RD., SOUTHGATE, MI n 734-283-4400 • WWW.HISOUTHGATE.COM Free Wi-Fi

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Located just 2 miles from The Henry Ford

Each of our spacious deluxe rooms feature microwaves, refrigerators, HD flat-screen TVs, free high-speed Internet and local calls. Full complimentary hot breakfast, indoor pool, fitness center, business center and whirlpool.

3600 ENTERPRISE DRIVE, ALLEN PARK, MI. 48101 • WWW.CHOICEHOTELS.COM • 313.323.3500

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cultivating possibilities DETROIT: MUSEUMS TO RESTAURANTS, THERE’S ART IN EVERYTHING WE DO.

The sun-soaked Rivera Court at the Detroit Institute of Arts is one of many masterpieces in the world-class collection. Beyond the museum, Detroit has a growing collection of culinary treasures, too, including great ethnic food, renowned master chefs—even world-famous Coney dogs. An impressive 77 new restaurants opened across Detroit over the last two years, and Zagat dining guide named The D the third-hottest up-and-coming food city in America. With pop-ups, distilleries, urban farms and talented chefs around every corner, Detroit has deliciously staked its place on the foodie map. Discover Detroit, America’s great comeback city, for yourself at visitdetroit.com.

Celebrating cultural diversity and honoring those who plant seeds of possibility.

AMERICA’S GREAT COMEBACK CITY. Photo Credit: middle ©Nicole Rupersburg 86 JANUARY-MAY 2016 JANICE McCORD INTERPRETIVE PROGRAMS VOLUNTEER DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS

DETROIT: MUSEUMS TO RESTAURANTS, THERE’S ART IN EVERYTHING WE DO.

The sun-soaked Rivera Court at the Detroit Institute of Arts is one of many masterpieces in the world-class collection. Beyond the museum, Detroit has a growing collection of culinary treasures, too, including great ethnic food, renowned master chefs—even world-famous Coney dogs. An impressive 77 new restaurants opened across Detroit over the last two years, and Zagat dining guide named The D the third-hottest up-and-coming food city in America. With pop-ups, distilleries, urban farms and talented chefs around every corner, Detroit has deliciously staked its place on the foodie map. Discover Detroit, America’s great comeback city, for yourself at visitdetroit.com.

AMERICA’S GREAT COMEBACK CITY. Photo Credit: middle ©Nicole Rupersburg thehenryford.org 87 A LOOK BACK

THE BOGUS BREWSTER CHAIR When an article was published in 1977 about a sculptor who had built a certain armchair in the 1960s — not to make a fake, but to make a point about his skill and ability to fool the experts — The Henry Ford took note. The throne-like chair described in the story was uncannily similar in every way to a 17th-century piece The Henry Ford had acquired in 1970 as a highly prized and rare Brewster, a type of chair associated with William Brewster, one of the founders of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Conservation science and strong detective work did prove the chair to be a fake, and The Henry Ford admit- ted to being fooled. Always the proverbial institution dedicated to education, The Henry Ford didn’t remove the chair, instead keeping it as a reminder of a lesson learned and even loaning it out for national exhibits on fakes and forgeries.

DID YOU KNOW? / William Brewster was one of 102 passengers who traveled across the Atlantic on the Mayflower in 1620 to establish Plymouth Colony.

DID YOU KNOW? / Chairs were rare in 17th-century American homes. Chairs like the Brewster were dAn X-ray of The Henry Ford’s Brewster made for honored chair forgery showed that the drill guests or the head bits used for making the holes that of the household — received the turned spindles had a intended to impress modern-day pointed end rather than visitors and confirm the spoon shape associated with bits the sitter’s status common to carpentry in the 1600s. and position. And they were not very comfortable. FROM THE HENRY FORD ARCHIVE OF AMERICAN INNOVATION™

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