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FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 13, 2024 • VOL. 54, NO. 37
Miss Morgan’s Milkweed Antiques Will Stage “Ruffled Antique And Artisan Show On Oct. 4 And 5 Feathers: 17th Anniversary Celebration To Be Held At Lebanon Valley Expo Center By Karl Pass She rides again! The 17th anniversary celebration of Miss Morgan’s Milkweed Antiques Antique and Artisan Show will be held on Friday and Saturday, Oct. 4 and 5, at the Lebanon Valley Expo
73rd Fishersville Antiques Expo Set For Oct. 11 And 12
Semiannual Event Is In Fishersville, Va. The 73rd Fishersville Antiques Expo will be held at the Augusta Expo Event Center, located at 277 Expo Road in Fishersville, Va. The semiannual show is taking place Friday and Saturday, Oct 11 and 12. Hours will be from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Friday and 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday. Admission is $10 per person on Friday (early shopping and two-day pass) and $5 per
person on Saturday. Tickets are sold only at the gate, rain or shine. Admission includes parking. Known simply as “Fishersville,” the event has been held at the Augusta Expo Event Center for over 39 years and 72 shows to date. This year’s fall show marks a milestone, the 73rd edition of this enduring, widely known antiques Continued on page 10
Center complex, 80 Rocherty Road, Lebanon, Pa. Show hours will be 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. for day one and 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. day two. Gas up the truck, get some seasonal garb, and stroll among the best pickers together at one unique antique Continued on page 11
Creating Whistler’s Peacock Room”
Exciting New Exhibit Now Open At Freer Gallery Of Art Fro m t h e m o m e n t o f i t s creation, the Peacock Room has been a personal, artistic, and cultural battleground. Created by artist James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) for the London home of British businessman Frederick Leyland, the room has a dramatic and complex origin story that works in the Freer Gallery of Art collection. Situated next to the Peacock Room, “Ruffled Feathers” offers visitors a chance to explore this room’s tangled history and the personal and global forces that shaped it through paintings, works on paper, and decorative art. Situating audiences in London during the room’s formation between 1874 and 1876, “Ruffled Feathers” offers a unique opportunity to see intimate and formal portraits Whistler created of the Leyland family, chronicling the personal relationships that flourished and fractured over the course of the room’s creation. Additional paintings and examples of design from Leyland’s home help audiences understand how Whistler incorporated motifs sourced from Asia throughout his designs and rethought his own approach to art and art-making. Whistler’s relationships, with his patron, with the art market, and with the world at large, offer visitors multiple ways to consider one of Washington, D.C.’s, most iconic spaces and to more fully immerse Continued on page 11
In This Issue SHOPS, SHOWS & MARKETS . . . . . . .
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SHOPS DIRECTORY . . . . . . .
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EVENT & AUCTION CALENDAR on page 7 AUCTIONEER DIRECTORY . . . . on page 7 AUCTION SALE BILLS . . . . . . on page 8
FEATURE ARTICLE: Central Penn Doll Collectors Club Doll Show, September 15 - Page 6
CLASSIFIEDS . . . . . . . . . . . on page 11