
Disappearing traditions: Author to talk about honoring craftsmanship of fading occupations
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 cared about the history. … We have lost the stories of the craftspeople and entrepreneurial women.” Two of those dressmakers were Deming’s grandmother and great-grandmother, […]



