The Worthington Historical Society’s featured exhibit for 2023
“Harriet Langdon Pruyn Rice (1868-1935):
Seeing Worthington Through A Different Lens,â€
Will officially open to the public on Sunday October 29th at 6:00 PM
at the Worthington Historical Building, 6 Williamsburg Road at Worthington Corners.
Light refreshments will be served. Admission is free.
There will be a presentation by the researchers-curators Jim Downey, Kate Ewald, and Arthur Tuttle on the artist and the gift of her glass negatives to the town’s library in 1944, the re-publication of Whittier’s poem Snow-bound illustrated with her photos, and the artist’s extensive journals, now held at the Albany Institute of History and Art, all documenting her photography of the Berkshire Hilltowns at the turn of the century.
Amateur photographer Harriet L. P. Rice was an Albany, New York, resident and daughter-in-law of Worthington native William A. Rice Jr. The exhibit features around 50 of her photographs taken in Worthington from about 1892-1906, along with extensive background research and excerpts from her journal entries. Her photos of Worthington residents – taken free of charge in their homes, fields, pastures, and door-yards – are informal, candid, and utterly natural, depicting the town’s hardscrabble residents in their familiar and well-worn environs, proudly greeting the camera’s eye.
The exhibit also includes photos of Rice’s husband, child, and their Worthington residence on Old North Road. These photos were used to illustrate the photographer’s re-printed edition of Snow-bound: A Winter Idyl, an extraordinarily popular poem published in 1866 by ardent abolitionist John Greenleaf Whittier. Pages and photos from one of the fifty privately printed editions are also displayed.
Fantastic exhibit! Will there be other times to view this exhibit other than 10/29/2023 at 6:00pm?
Thank you
At this time, no further dates have been announced yet. Stay tuned!