Saturday, July 25, 2026 (continued)
After lunch at The Weathervane Café, we continued exploring Shelburne Museum.
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The Pleissner Gallery featured rotating exhibits of
Ogden Minton Pleissner, a staff artist for LIFE magazine
during World War II before becoming a nationally
recognized landscape and sporting arts painter; the
current exhibit is Big River: Ogden Pleissner in Wyoming |
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The above painting is titled Rocky Stream (undated)
and this one is Untitled (dated 1921-1943) |
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| Ogden Pleissner's Manchester, VT studio is recreated here |
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Kent on a chair outside Owl Cottage (1956), which is
the Activity Center devoted to children |
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Lighthouse (1871 to mark three reefs on
Lake Champlain between Vermont and New York) |
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| Bostwick Garden |
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| Storm King Bench (2017, by Johnny Swing) |
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| Storm King Bench is made with nickels |
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| Pigeon (2025, by Carl D'Alvia) |
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General Store and Apothecary Shop (1840 as the
Shelburne Post Office, moved here in 1952) |
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| General store |
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| Postal boxes |
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| Liquor section of the general store |
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| Barbershop in the general store |
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| Cash register in the apothecary shop |
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The Henry Tilton Lummus Straight Razor
Collection (about 600 displayed on two walls!) |
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| Blacksmith Shop (c 1800, moved in 1955)) |
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| Blacksmith at work... |
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| ...making a leaf keychain |
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| Faceted Rock (2004, by David Stromeyer) |
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| Meeting House (1840 as a church) |
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The meeting house also served as a theater
and library before being moved here in 1952 |
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| Weeping willow tree over a pond |
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Horseshoe Barn Annex (1955-1957 for overflow of the
horse-drawn vehicles collection in the Horseshoe Barn) |
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| Merchant's Sleigh (c 1880) |
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| Omnibus (c 1865) was used by a resort hotel in VT |
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Conestoga Wagon (c 1837) was used as a
freight-hauling vehicle |
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Printing Shop (1955); structures constructed at the
museum used salvaged building materials |
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| Cottrell Flatbed Cylinder Press (1871, retired in 1972) |
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| Example of typesetting |
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| Weaving Shop (1955) |
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Jacquard Loom (1890s) relied on cards
punched with holes to create a specific pattern,
a system later used in early computers |
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| Shaker Shed (1840 as a horse and carriage stand) |
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| Jail (1890) |
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| Kent is actually at the jail's only window |
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| A peek into one of two cells |
Next: Shelburne Museum III.
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