The History We Never Knew: Looking at our Past Through Schoolgirl Samplers
Westport Museum for History & Culture 25 Avery Place, Westport, CT, United StatesAlexandra 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 ...