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EVENT CANCELLED: Panel Discussion and Tour – Life Behind the Scenes: Domestic Service in the Gilded Age
April 27, 2020 @ 6:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Due to the current public health emergency, this event has been cancelled.
Servants were the indispensable workers who made it possible for wealthy Gilded Age Americans to maintain large homes and lavish lifestyles. Join us for a panel discussion of domestic servants and the spaces they occupied with experts from Biltmore, the Preservation Society of Newport County, Winterthur, and Anderson House, followed by a reception and tours of the private third floor and other behind-the-scenes spaces.
Registration is required for this event. The cost of this event is $30 for general admission and $25 for Society members and American Revolution Institute Associates.
About the Panelists
Lauren Henry is an associate curator at Biltmore, home of George and Edith Vanderbilt, in Asheville, North Carolina. She received her M.A. in museum studies from Johns Hopkins University.
Jeff Groff is the estate historian at Winterthur, family home of Henry Francis du Pont, in Winterthur, Delaware. He received his M.A in American material culture from the University of Delaware.
Leslie B. Jones is the director of museum affairs and chief curator of the Preservation Society of Newport County, an organization that preserves and interprets the Newport mansions held in the public trust in Newport, Rhode Island. She received an M.A. in the history of decorative arts from the Smithsonian Associates and Corcoran College of Art and Design and an M.A. in fine and decorative art from New York University.
Emily Schulz Parsons is the deputy director and curator of the American Revolution Institute of the Society of the Cincinnati, which preserves Anderson House, its headquarters in Washington, D.C., and originally the home of Larz and Isabel Anderson. She received her M.A. in history and certificate in museum studies from the University of Delaware.