Ruth Abram will tell about Behold! New Lebanon on Monday April 3 at 7:30 pm at the Stephentown Historical Society’s Heritage Center at 5 Staples Road (corner of Garfield Road) in Stephentown.
[private]Abram is the founder of this unique living museum of rural life. Note that this program returns to a Monday evening schedule for the spring and summer months. The program is free and the building is handicapped accessible. For directions, telephone (518) 733-0010.
Behold! New Lebanon is building the nation’s first museum of contemporary rural American life. Its ambition is to enlarge our expectations of the role of the museum in society while creating a new model for the economic and social revitalization of small rural towns. They honor the techniques and knowhow of generations past while sharing with visitors the skills and ways of today’s country life. As of this writing, over 50 residents of New Lebanon are serving as rural guides. Over 18 weekends in this, their third year, they will make the people in our neighborhood and their skills and experience available to visitors from near and far.
Ruth J. Abram, the President of the Behold! New Lebanon Board of Trustees, also founded the Lower East Side Tenement Museum in New York City, the International Coalition of Historic Sites of Conscience, the Women’s History Institute, the National Women’s Agenda Coalition, and Vertical Village, a better way of urban living. She has lived in New Lebanon since 2007. [/private]