Boston, MA, 2025: The Billings Pendulum
1) Raybon in Old South Meeting House
2,3) Old South Meeting House
4) Billings’ gravesite
MIDDLETOWN, CT, 2025: Henry Clay Work
Scott Gac, Trinity College, and I are working on a book about Civil War Song Composer, Henry Clay Work.
1,2) Monument to Work in Middletown, CT
3) Scott and me
GLASTONBURY, CT, 2025: Hannah & Her Daughters
1) Hannah Hadassah Hickok
2) Zephania Smith
3) Hancy Zephina Smith
4) Cyrinthia Sacretia Smith
5) Laurilla Aleroyla Smith
6) Julia Evelina Smith
7) Abby Hadassah Smith
8-12) The journal that started it all, and I finally got to hold it in my hands!
CHAPEL HILL, NC, 2023: The Mending Sampler
1) Kate Hargrove of Colonial Williamsburg and her creation
2) the cast of Mending Sampler, and author, John Wood Sweet
3) our Carolina Blue Lady
4) Raybon’s sampler from 1797 (the same year that our concert hall was built), bearing Alice Greenwoods stitches, set to music for the performance.
RICHMOND, VA, 2023: Libby Prison
These are the very earrings and broach that the song “Whittle Away” was written about for the performance at the American Civil War Museum. These were carved from beef bone from one of the meager meals of the Union soldiers in Libby Prison.