Keeping Room Series:
After Elizabeth Freeman: Researching Sheffield's Black
Community in the 19th & 20th Centuries      February 26, 2023

Keeping Room Series:
Samplers: Education by Needlework        January 29,2023

This program, held on January 29, 2023, gave a brief history of samplers in America, with a focus on Berkshire-made samplers. Their use as an educational tool and an expression of girls' and young women's educational accomplishments was discussed.  The in-person and Zoom audience were invited to show and tell about samplers they own. Presenter, Jennifer Owens of the Sheffield Historical Society showed the audience close ups of samplers in the society's collection and brought to the program by society members.