Tudor Rozette From Glensheen's Volunteer Office April 2002 Appreciation Tour The week of April 21 to 27 is National Volunteer Appreciation Week. We are planning our 3rd annual 1h Volunteer Appreciation Day on Saturday, April 27 • By popular request we will repeat the event we did two years ago - a driving tour of Congdon family homes. We will start at Glensheen and car pool to the NATIONAL Mansion next door, Marjorie Congdon Dudley's home, and SURVEY - also see Robert Congdon's home next to that. Then we will Volunteering in see where Helen Congdon d'Autremont lived in Lakeside. the US in 2001 We'll stop at the Lester Park Florist to see the Congdon banana tree, then continue to Hawthorne Road to see * 44% of adults Edward Congdon's home. From there we will drive to the volunteer Forest Hill cemetery to see the Congdon graves, and then see the location where Walter lived. Next, we will see the 81 * 3.6 hours Congdon's first home in Duluth on 1 Street, then their average time next home, The Redstone. We will finish up with coffee volunteered and dessert at the Kitchi Gammi Club, where Edward was weekly President. I am still arranging which homes we will be able to * $15.40 tour inside and which we will look at from the outside. estimated hourly Two years ago we had a grand tour of Robert's home and The Redstone. We weren't able to go inside the others. value of Also I didn't know then the location of Helen's home in volunteer time Lakeside. This year will no doubt be different, so he prepared for something new! This event is free of charge for Glensheen volunteers and counts as volunteer hours, since it will he very educational. H you are interested in going on this Tour of Congdon Homes, please sign up in the Volunteer Office, or call at 726-8918. Join us for the 2002 annual Glensheen Volunteer Appreciation Day! Volunteer Night HOW MANY th PINEAPPLES? Our Thursday, March 7 meeting was postponed until Thursday, March 14th due to snowy weather. More How many snow on the 14th limited our turnout to 7 people! pineapples do you We started with the Volunteer Council meeting at think can be found 6:15 pm. Bill Miller reported the Spring schedule: we will in the decorations be open every day the first week of April, 11:00 am to 2:00 at Glensheen? pm last tour, then only open Fridays, Saturdays and 8 Sundays, 11-2, the rest of April. Starting May 1 \ we will The book, be open every day from 9:30 am to 4:00 last tour. Treasures of Rachael Martin reported the success of Lace and " Glensheen says we Needlework programs on Saturday, the ongoing have a total of 34. performance appraisals, and showed us the two Memorial Plaques from Duluth Trophy. But what is a Mter the meeting, Rachael presented a slide pineapple, program about the construction of Glensheen, and showed anyway? Could it everyone the mass coil room on the lower level. look like a The next Volunteer Night will be Thursday, April 4, pinecone, a melon, starting at 6:15 pm with the Volunteer Council meeting. a pomegranate, a Mter the meeting, Julie Smith, Glensheen's new Marketing flame, a bunch of Director will introduce herself and tell us about some of grapes? Could we her successful new marketing initiatives, and how have as many as volunteers can help. Following that we will review the 200 pineapples? "America's Castles" video about Glensheen. All volunteers and staff are welcome to attend the Let's declare April Volunteer Night activities. It lasts from 6:15 pm to 8:30 pineapple counting pm, includes refreshments, and counts as volunteer hours. month, where Please sign up to come by calling the Volunteer Office at everyone can 726-8918. submit a list of pineapples. The list must include the location of Plant Reminder each pineapple Now is a good time to remind everyone to divide listed. The person your houseplants and get new shoots started for the with the most Volunteer Booth at Glensheen's annual Fine Arts & pineapples on Crafts Festival August 17, 2002. The Volunteer Council their list, wins a always has a bake sale and a plant sale to raise money prize! for projects to benefit Glensheen. Start your plants now! EDUCATIONAL INSERT Identifying Laces On Saturday, March 23, Corrine Lamb present her program on "Identifying Laces" as part of our Closer Overcast Bars Look program series accompanying our current exhibit "Clara Congdon: Laces and Needlework". Corrine says she is an archaeologist by profession, specializing in bones. But her passion is laces. She has studied laces all over the world. Overcast Bars and the following Woven Laces, she says, are the epitome of textiles. Lace is a Bars are generally used in Hardanger !"mbroidery, but they can also be used In Drawn Thread Embroidery. To work fabric of openwork. There are two types of laces: needle the Overcast Bars, withdraw the number of threads required from the fabric and point (not to be confused with canvas work) and bobbin separate the loose threads into bars by overcasting firmly over the threads as many times as required to cover the lace. group of threads completely. Needle point lace is defined as a single element open work fabric. It had its origins in embroidery. Cut work, Woven Bars drawn work, and pulled work were the predecessors of needle point lace. Another proto lace, or precursor to needle point lace, was "Punto in Aria", which means stitches in the air. Corrine brought numerous examples of types of Withdraw the number of threads re- needle point lace, such as knotted net filet lace, which : quired from fabric and separate the I loose threads mto bars by weaving over were passed around for the audience to look at. and. under an even number of threads . unt.1 the threads are completely covered. Next we learned about bobbin lace. It is defined as a multiple element open work fabric. There are 4 broad categories of bobbin lace; 1. Plaited - this looks like braid and was made of a variety of fibers including metal, silk or linen. The metal plaiting would be silver or gold which was pounded and wrapped on parchment. 2. - this can be made straight or curvy with the curves connected with bars; Battenburg lace is an imitation of bobbin tape lace. 3. Straight - this is made in a strip, 2 types: BOOKS FROM a. Torchon - background is at a 45 GLENSHEEN'S degree angle to edge. MUSEUM SHOP: b. Buckpoint, Chantilly, etc - background is anything but 45 degree 1. Quick & Easy angle. Crochet: 36 Motifs, 4. Free - uses all the techniques. ed. Mary Carolyn Only two stitches are used to make bobbin lace; Waldrep right over left or left over right. Corrine brought a pillow for making bobbin lace to 2. The Crocheter's show us. Hers looked like a round cookie, flat on the Treasure chest: 80 bottom and slightly rounded on top. This was different Classic Patterns, from Joyce Mickelson's bobbin lace pillow which was ed. Mary Carolyn square and had an indentation in the center for a cylinder. Waldrep Corrine says there are many different sizes and shapes of pillows. She was making a butterfly design in the free 3. Crochet Design style of bobbin lace. Corrine also showed us a variety of for the Home: 20 '" bobbins from different countries. E patterns According to Corrine, craft laces, such as knitted lace, crocheting, and tatting, were developed later to 4. Crocheting Ruffled Doilies, ed. imitate needle point lace and bobbin lace. They can be Linda Macho made more quickly and look very similar to lace. Especially crocheted filet looks very much like needle 5. FlQral Crochet, point filet. ed. Mary Carolyn Corrine explained that lace is European in origin Waldrep and spread everywhere around the world from there. One type of lace called Tennerife is made in the Eastern 6. Filet Crochet: Atlantic, and many styles are made in South America. Projects and Corrine prepared a Lace Identification worksheet Charted Designs, for all the audience members. She familiarized us with ed. Mrs. F. W. terms used in lace identification: Kettelle Design is the overall description of the piece of lace. Ground means background. 7. Crocheting Foot means the edge of the lace you attach to fabric. Doilies, ed. Rita Head is the edge that doesn't attach to fabric. Weiss Pattern is the specific decorative element created by some of the stitches in the piece of lace. 8. Traditional Continuous means the whole piece is made at once. Tatting Patterns, Discontinuous means the piece was made in sections ed. Rita Weiss and assembled. Andirons Changed We now have proof that the andirons in the Dining Room were indeed changed by the Congdons in the early years at Glensheen. Look at the photo on the right and you will see what the Dining Room looked like before the portieres and draperies were installed. Notice the andirons in this first photo - they are the silver andirons that are now in Helen's grey bedroom. The next photo on the right shows that the large andirons, which are currently in the Dining Room, were added later when the portieres and draperies were installed. Also note the little lampshades on the candelabra on the fireplace mantle. Tour Reviews Our annual tour reviews, or performance appraisals, are currently in progress. You should hear No.