Sampler Stories
Schedule
Sun, 15 Jun, 2025 at 02:00 pm
UTC-04:00Location
Bennington Museum | Bennington, VT
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a Bennington Historical Society presentationWhat can needlework samplers made by schoolgirls tell us about our Revolutionary War ancestors and their descendants? More than you might expect! The Vermont Sampler Initiative has collected and documented almost 800 samplers in Vermont over the past 2 ½ years, starting with its first Sampler ID Day at Bennington Museum in November 2022. Michele Pagán, textile conservator and one of the managers of the project, will share some of the stories uncovered with the help of these samplers. Bennington Museum will be one of the main stops on a Sampler Driving Tour being developed in coordination with the statewide 250th commemoration of the Revolutionary War.
Michele Pagán is a recently-returned native Vermonter, who spent her childhood in Bennington. She is a graduate of the University of Vermont and University of Connecticut, where she studied clothing & textiles. She credits her early experience visiting Bennington Museum with opening new doors to her, allowing her to envision a unique career trajectory.Bennington Museum recently published her research entitled Geography and Technological Change in Vermont: The Transition from Homespun Flax To Machine-Made Cotton Textiles. Today she is a textile conservator in private practice who likes to say that she is “Saving history one piece of fabric at a time.”
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Where is it happening?
Bennington Museum, 75 West Main Street,Bennington, Vermont, United StatesEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
