Disappearing traditions: Author to talk about honoring craftsmanship of fading occupations

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Disappearing traditions: Author to talk about honoring craftsmanship of fading occupations

A Woven World, Alison Hawthorne Deming, Creative Living Series, Creative Living Speaker Series, Opera House, Woodstock Fine Arts Association

By Eileen Millard news@thewoodstockindependent.com “I was thinking about doing a book about the fabulous dressmaking during the Gilded Age,” said Alison Hawthorne Deming, award-winning poet, essayist and nonfiction author. “I […]

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