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SUMMARY:Civil War Quilts - More than needles\, thread and fabric
DESCRIPTION:Diana O’Brien remembers her Greek father\, a WW2 veteran\, asking her brother if he needed a handkerchief as her brother headed out the door to Vietnam in 1966. Aside from language issues\, her father had no words for the fear and love he felt for her brother. The handkerchief was his love letter. \nDuring the Civil War\, quilts made for soldiers were their own love letters\, but were also battleground and medical gear. Also\, they were ways\, mostly for mothers\, to express the angst in their hearts\, and pass the time\, until hopefully\, their loved ones returned home from the most human costly war in American history. \nDiana O’Brien\, a volunteer at the Ulysses S. Grant Cottage National Historic Landmark in Gansevoort\, New York and award-winning quilter\, will tell the unheralded story of Civil War quilts. Professionally made replica Civil War Quilts will be on display\, including a replica of the most famous of Civil War quilts\, the Jane Stickle quilt. Participants will have an opportunity to see the original Stickle quilt following the program. \nNo registration required. Program is included with regular admission. FREE for Members!
URL:https://benningtonmuseum.org/event/civilwarquilts/
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SUMMARY:Vermont Vice Gallery Talk
DESCRIPTION:Join Bennington Museum curator Jamie Franklin for a tour of Vermont Vice (on view through November 1\, 2026). Jamie will share highlights of the exhibition and talk about how and why he chose what to include in this exploration of Vermont’s darker side. \nThe talk is included with regular admission and registration is not required.
URL:https://benningtonmuseum.org/event/vicetalk02/
CATEGORIES:Tours
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SUMMARY:Museum ABCs: Preschool Printmakers
DESCRIPTION:Printmaking is fun and easy! We’ll explore a few ways to make prints using things like Q-tips\, styrofoam\, and plants. Dress for a mess for this inky\, painty program! \nMuseum ABCs is a collaboration between Bennington Museum and the Bennington Free Library\, designed for children ages 3 to 5 and their adult companions. Siblings are welcome! Museum ABCs is FREE thanks to funding from The Bank of Bennington. Join us on the second Saturday of each month\, April through November\, for artwork\, stories\, and more! \npresented in partnership with the Bennington Free Library \nsponsored by \nadditional support from
URL:https://benningtonmuseum.org/event/abcs2026oct/
CATEGORIES:Museum ABCs
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SUMMARY:Left to Their Own Devices
DESCRIPTION:Part performance\, part interactive sound experience\, “Left to Their Own Devices” features a series of interactive musical mechanisms that invite and respond to audience interaction. Wander the Museum at your own pace\, in your own path\, and engage with the devices and performers. \nThe Devices\n \nTintinnalogia is a mechanical carillon fanned out around the new courtyard. The 8-bell device is inspired by the British tradition of change ringing\, in which permutations of bells are rung out in a frenzy. Every 15 minutes a piece is performed like clockwork. \nExtant is an immersive installation about celestial navigation amidst rising tides; it uses the sextant the artist’s grandfather used to sail to Tahiti. The sextant\, a navigation tool\, is based on imprecise science\, relying on where you thought you once were to predict your current position. As the audience uses the device\, a sound collage gradually loses itself\, as it tries to locate the viewer’s place. \nHeterodyne is inspired by the inventor Leon Theremin’s dance platform called the Terpsitone\, and his 1936 visit to Bennington to demonstrate the device. Heterodyne translates movement into sound\, tracking one person’s motion and mapping it onto a projected doppelganger\, using technology akin to the theremin\, the contactless instrument named for its inventor. \nComb is a work inspired by the silent instruments in the Museum’s Church Gallery. As the audience wanders the room\, lasers and sonar devices create a collage based on what the devices might have sounded like back then\, based on the shape-note hymn Evening Shade. \nIn Hypnagogia electric muscle stimulants create involuntary movements in three dancers\, conveyed through wireless belts. These tics are generated by the sound itself and are part of an improvisation between the intentional and the unexpected. Hypnagogia is a transitional state between sleep and wakefulness\, in which people experience hallucinations and uncontrolled tics. \nIn Barrel Roll a tiny device constructed out of a music box and a yoga block perceives movement. Playing with the trope of a music box twirling a porcelain ballerina\, each participant turns the barrel and creates a kaleidoscopic collage out of each tune. \nNicholas Brooke creates music across disciplines\, from collages of recordings with live theater\, to home-built instrumentariums inspired by gamelan. Brooke’s works have been featured across the U.S. and Europe\, at Mass MoCA\, HERE\, Merkin Hall\, Baryshnikov Arts Center\, the MATA Series\, and the Spoleto Festival\, and have been performed by the Bang-on-a-Can All-Stars\, Talujon\, Speculum Musicae\, Orchestra 2001\, the Paul Dresher Ensemble\, the Nash Ensemble of London\, and Sekar Anu. He has received Guggenheim and Rockefeller Foundation awards\, and multiple residencies including Djerassi\, MacDowell\, Bogliasco\, and Bellagio. Originally a clarinettist\, he is also an avid instrument builder\, and researcher of early musical automata. During a two-year fellowship to Central Java\, he studied gamelan and collaborated on musical projects with Javanese composers\, dancers\, and visual artists. He holds degrees in music composition and philosophy from Oberlin\, and a Ph.D from Princeton. He teaches at Bennington College. \nMusic at the Museum programs are presented at no charge\, thanks to our generous sponsors\,\nAlison Nowak and Robert Cane
URL:https://benningtonmuseum.org/event/music2026devices/
CATEGORIES:Music at the Museum
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SUMMARY:Winter's Time
DESCRIPTION:a Bennington Historical Society presentation \nIn November 1926\, Cecelia Gullivan\, treasurer of the Cone Automatic Machine company of Windsor\, Vermont\, was brutally killed in her home. Local police quickly arrested Cone Automatic machinist John Winters on suspicion of the crime\, and the trial that followed was sensational and swift. The author of Winters’ Time: A Secret Pledge\, a Severed Head\, and the Murder that Brought America’s Most Famous Lawyer to Vermont\, shares the story. \nJeffrey L. Amestoy\, the former Vermont Attorney General (1985-1997) and Chief Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court (1997-2004)\, has spent years researching a fascinating and dramatic episode of Vermont’s history: the time that Clarence Darrow\, America’s most famous lawyer\, came to Vermont to defend a convicted murderer before the Vermont Supreme Court. \nsupported by
URL:https://benningtonmuseum.org/event/bhs2026oct/
CATEGORIES:BHS
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SUMMARY:Bennington Centre Cemetery Tour
DESCRIPTION:Take a tour of the Bennington Centre Cemetery with Bennington Museum curator\, Jamie Franklin.\nHave you ever wondered what stories lie in the cemetery behind the Old First Church? This guided tour starts in the Museum’s Early Vermont gallery\, where you’ll see the headstone for Jedidiah Dewey\, Bennington’s first pastor\, carved by Frederick Manning\, and learn about the earliest gravestones carved in Bennington. The tour continues in the Bennington Centre Cemetery\, where Jamie will share the stories of some of the people buried there and introduce you to the works of some of the region’s early headstone carvers. \nWear good walking shoes and be prepared for some uphill walking and uneven terrain. We recommend bringing water to drink and applying sunscreen and bug spray. \nTickets are $20 for Bennington Museum members\, $27 for Not-Yet-Members and available for purchase below. Online ticket sales end at 10:00 AM the day of the tour. Tickets can be purchased at the door\, if space is still available.
URL:https://benningtonmuseum.org/event/2026cemetery-tour/
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