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The Billings Estate Museum in Ottawa had a similar event. I think they
recreated the wedding (or was that at the Log Farm?). The address is
Billings Estate Museum
2100 Cabot St
Ottawa, Ontario
K1H 6K1
phone 613 564-1363
Peter Jay Klarnet ([log in to unmask]) writes:
> I'm posting this for my friend Allison Buckley at the Rockwood Museum in
> Wilmington Delaware. Any responses would be quite helpful.
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> Rockwood Museum in Wilmington, Delaware is an extraordinary example of
> mid-19th century rural gothic architecture, unique in Delaware. The
> estate built by merchant banker Joseph Shipley was bought by his nephew
> Edward Bringhurst and remained in the Bringhust family until the 1960's.
> The museums holds a collection of English Continental, and American
> decorative arts relfective of the tatstes of a succession of family
> members who lived a Rockwood. Our period of interpretation is 1875-1920.
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> In 1887 Edith Bringhurst, Edward's daughter, was married at Rockwood in
> grand style. We are planning to commerate and celebrate this wedding in
> 1997 with special exhibits and educational programs. We would be very
> interested ingetting in touch with other museums that interpret late
> Victorian weddings to find out what educational programs work well at
> your institution. Does anyone do living history late Victorian weddings?
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> * * *
> Alison Buckley
> [log in to unmask]
> History Department
> University of Delaware
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