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KYGMC
MessengerVOLUME XXII ISSUE V Summer / May 2017
IN THIS EDITION The View From Sutton Street Miniatures Corner Acquisition Spotlight 2017 Calendar of Summer Exhibits & Events
Tying the KnotAn exhibit curated by Marla Toncray showcasing Wedding Dresses and
TraditionsNow oN Display
May promises to be a month celebrating special exhibits and events at the Kentucky Gateway Museum Center. Great exhibits, seminars, a special Mother’s Day opening and the newly expanded Museum Shop are just a few of the high-lights this month at the Museum.
Tying the Knot: Wedding Dresses and Traditions is our featured exhibit in our Changing Gallery and will be on display thru June 10. This highlight exhibit features numerous dresses from both the KYGMC Collections and our patrons and friends of the museum. Marla Toncray has served as the guest curator in producing the wedding exhibit expe-rience. The KSB Miniatures Gallery features Celebrating Summer along with special wedding display now through July. This special KSB presentation is part of Kaye Browning’s The Four Seasons of Miniatures Series. The Wormald Collector’s Series this month features, Time for Tea – A Collection of Tea Sets from teapots to related tea accoutrements. This collector’s series presenta-tion features the collections of Research Librarian Cay Chamness along with numerous items from museum staff members and our community of friends. Our KYGMC staff is excited to showcase these special items in the traditions of Maysville weddings and teas.
The Museum Shop has many great additions to our product lines and an expanded inventory of high quality miniatures for sale. We are excited to announce new products including Blenko Glass, prints, homemade soaps, historic maps, local jams, our line of historical books, jewelry, greeting cards and a host of items available for sale to the public. Our shop inventory includes items from over twenty miniature artisans that have created some of the most sought after works available for sale in any museum store in our country. Our museum shop continues to grow in the scope of available col-lector items for sale. Members save 10% on most purchases and all the sales continue to help support the programs and exhibits at your Museum Center.
Weddings and Teas are times of celebrating and gift giving. Consider making The Museum Shop one of your destina-tion shopping experiences in Maysville.
We welcome a new Maysville Bourbon display on the second floor of the Wormald Gallery and invite you to travel the museum’s own bourbon trail within the walls of the Museum Center starting in mid-May. We celebrate Mother’s Day on Sunday afternoon May 14 with free admission to Mothers to view the exhibits from 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Our exhibits feature many items from the families of our community, and we appreciate the support of our members and friends to produce these special museum presentations. As always we thank you for being a member and for building the legacy of the Kentucky Gateway Museum Center.
C.J. Hunter IVExecutive Director
The View From Sutton Street
Marla Toncray We would like to thank Marla Toncray for curating the exhibit, “Tying the Knot.” All of your hard work has paid off with this beautiful exhibt.
Special Thank You
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Veil worn by Mary Elizabeth Yundt on January 7, 1942, lent by her daughter, Mary Kilbourn-Huey.
Dookie Cookie Surprise!
Huge thank you to all of the volunteers and schools that brought children to KYGMC during our Hungry
Planet Exhibit. The Hungry Planety field trip tookstudents on a culinary trip around the world, including history on food and traditions from other countries, and the extremely popular digestive system activity.
YUM!YUM!YUM!
Time For TeaDon’t miss our “Time for Tea” exhibit
in the Wormald Building. The exhibit showcases tea sets, tea
services, accoutrements,accessories, and teas, as well as
tea items from other cultures.
Mother’s Day 2017KYGMC will be open on Sunday,
May 14, from 2pm-4pm. We invite mother’s and their families to come enjoy a complimentary day at the
museum.
As the KYGMC unveils its newest exhibit Tying the Knot: Wedding Dress-es & Traditions, I can’t help but point out the KSB Miniatures Collection’s wedding gowns and bridal accoutrements on display in the window case before you enter the gallery.
This seasonal exhibit always impresses visitors who are struck by the sheer time and patience it takes to sew the gowns. It is also a favorite of miniatur-ists. In fact, pieces of this exhibit have been featured in Miniature Collector magazine twice in the past year or so.
Janet Middlebrook, who created most of the dresses in the exhibit, believes these textiles are popular because they represent the most important dress a woman will wear in her adult life and, of course, because they remind everyone of something very special. The IGMA Fellow should know. She’s
been creating wedding gowns in 1/12 scale for more than36 years.
Janet, who now only takes commissions from museums, has seen collec-tors create entire bridal shops around her miniature wedding gowns. Her specialty is heirloom sewing of period-specific bridal wear and fashion. When she began, she says most collectors were interested in Victorian styles, but over the years she’s found herself gravitating toward the styles of the ’20s and ’30s because the materials, details, and tech-niques used during those times, she feels, are “unmatched,” often making or breaking the gowns.
Her inspiration for the creations comes from her library of more than 200 books, maga-zines, and catalogs on vintage costumes and fashion and from Turner Classic movies, where she closely examines the movement of fabric. Once set on a design, she looks no further
than to the collection of textiles she’s acquired over the years—most from the fabric district in London. She lists fine silks, satins, cashmere, batiste, tulle, and vintage lace (the majority from France and Italy) as her medium, in every shade of ivory, champagne, and white imaginable. And her studio sounds like a de-signer’s dream filled with rhinestones, crystals, sequins, beads, and terribly expensive trim, sashes, ribbons, fur, feathers, and 100% silk threads.
Every year when we put together the bridal display, I study the pieces a little closer and think of Janet surrounded by yards of fine fabrics contem-plating her artistic process that becomes these beautiful gowns. Please stop by to see these extraordinary pieces during the Tying the Knot exhibit. I’m sure you will be reminded of your own very special memories.
Mother’s DayMay 14, 2pm-4pmt
FREE admission for mother’s and their
families
Wedding cakes in 1/12 scale.
Heirloom dress by Janet Middlebrook.
Silk charmeuse gown by Janet Middlebrook. Table and chair by Lilli Ann Hamilton. Fountain by Dominique Levy.
Veil by Janet Middlebrook.
Miniatures CornerBy Kaye Browning
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We at KYGMC always feel fortunate that so many people are interested in donating items for our collection and that others assist us with the purchase of outstanding items of local origin. We have two such items that have recently been acquired: a $10 note of National Currency and a 9” coin silver tablespoon.
The $10 note is “secured by bonds of the United States with the U S. Treasury, at Washington.” It is signed by James Gilfillan, Treasurer of the United States, and by G. W. Scofield, Register of the Treasury and dated April 15, 1880. First National Bank of Maysville is printed on the bill which states $10 will be paid to the bearer on demand. We thank our donor, Robert Vance.
We received notice of an auction of silver pieces which included the tablespoon engraved with the name “Hurst”. Pleasant H. Baird was listed as the silversmith so our acquisition process was set in motion. Mr. Baird was originally from Petersburg, Virginia where he advertised as a watchmaker in 1802, and then moved to Natchez, Mississippi and was a “watch maker, jeweler, silversmith, and engraver” in 1806. He married in Lexington, KY in 1811 and was in Paris, KY in 1813. He bought property in 1814 in Washington, KY. He bought property on Sutton Street in Maysville and presumably lived there with his family until the property was sold in 1838. Unfortunately tragedy struck in 1824 when his five-year old son was killed. The child is buried in the cemetery behind the Museum Center. Coin silver pieces are always exciting to find, but to find one that had been made here inspired us, and we had a successful bid at the auction.
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KSBKathleen Savage Browning
MINIATURES COLLECTION
Acquisition SpotlightBy Sue Ellen Grannis
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KYGMC StaffExecutive Director
C.J. Hunter [email protected]
Miniatures CuratorKaye Browning
CuratorSue Ellen Grannis
Education CuratorTandy Nash
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Bill WhitakerTrustee Emeritus
Donald L. WoodTrustee Emeritus
C.J. Hunter IVEx-Officio Trustee
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many new itemsincluding an array of Sunflower Sundries
products, Agate slabs on stands, and much
more! New itemsarriving throughout the
month of May.
KYGMC is proud to be recognized as one of the premiere miniatures gift
shops in the nation!