The History We Never Knew: Looking at our Past Through Schoolgirl Samplers  

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.