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The History We Never Knew: Looking at our Past Through Schoolgirl Samplers
March 9 @ 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
Alexandra Lally Peters, Historian, Curator and Collector of Samplers Alexandra will talk about needlework samplers.
Alexandra Lally Peters is a sampler collector and historian who first encountered a schoolgirl sampler that she could buy forty years ago. She lives in New York City and in Sharon, CT, with a lot of samplers that explain so much about the lives of women in the past.
This program is presented at Westport Museum by Wilton DAR.
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