This class will explore food-related items from the Hart-Cluett collection, and use them as a jumping off point for writing. Focusing on the early 20th century, we will look at the food landscape through grocery stores, cafeteria menus and community cookbooks.
We'll begin our time together with tea and sweets prepared from these materials, and move on to studying the artifacts themselves. With this information in mind, we'll use writing prompts as springboards for our own writing. This could take any shape you'd like: an exploration of personal food memories, or small pieces of fiction/creative nonfiction.
No experience is necessary -- just curiosity, and a desire to play with words through the lens of food. If you do have a notebook and pen you like to use, or prefer to write digitally, bring these along. Otherwise, we will have paper and pens available.
Registration, snack and materials- $35
Scholarships available! Reach out to Amanda at airwin@hartcluett.org or 518-272-7232 x 115
AMY HALLORAN spent her teenage years prowling the ghost town that was Troy in the 1980s. The first manager of the Troy Waterfront Farmers' Market, she ran the food pantry and community meals program at Unity House. Her love for food, and for the people who grow and make it, led her to write a book about the revival of regional grain production, The New Bread Basket. She is working on a book about history: her own, her city's, and that of bread baking in Troy and America.
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The Arts Center of the Capital Region
Arts Thrive and Grow has been funded by New York State, Kathy Hochul, Governor. We thank Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart Cousins for her extraordinary commitment and leadership, and our elected officials who represent our grantmaking region: Senators Jake Ashby and Neil D. Breslin; Assemblymembers Scott H. Bendett, Patricia Fahy, John T. McDonald III, Angelo Santabarbara, Phil Steck, and Mary Beth Walsh.
Date & Time
Sat, Nov 16, 2024 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Venue Details
Hart Cluett Museum
57 2nd Street Troy, New York 12180
Hart Cluett Museum
The Hart Cluett Museum is operated by Historic Rensselaer County (Rensselaer County Historical Society), a dynamic not-for-profit educational organization established in 1927 to connect local history and heritage with contemporary life. We enrich the present and advocate for the future by bringing the region's past to life, recognizing every face and every story. In pursuit of this mission, we collect, preserve, study, interpret, and make accessible a broad variety of objects and documents. We also conduct educational programs that inspire public enthusiasm for our roots and bolster the entrepreneurial appetites of our community.
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