September Gathering in the Nut

Connecticut artifacts and early American music machines, will be the focus of the regional meeting in Lebanon, Connecticut, on Sunday, September 19, 2010, at the EAIA regional meeting co-hosted by ATTIC at the Lebanon Historical Society Museum. The museum is located at 856 Trumbull Highway in Lebanon. The event will begin with a session of early morning tailgating open to the public and with displays on the theme, "Eighteenth-Century Connecticut Artifacts."

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The morning activities will include special tours of historic Redwood, a private residence designed and built by Lebanon's master joiner Isaac Fitch in 1778-1779. The program, "Sights and Sounds at Redwood," includes a tour of the downstairs rooms in Redwood with its collection of early music machines dating from 1897 to 1911. The collection includes flat-disc and cylinder phonographs and music boxes that play perforated metal discs that incorporate teeth to pluck a comb to produce tones similar to a piano. There will be two tours, one at 10 a.m. and another at 1 1 a.m. Pre-registration is required and the tours are limited to twentyfive for each tour.

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The Jonathan Trumbull, Jr., House, a museum owned by the Town of Lebanon, will be open all day for visitors. Built before 1769, the house has woodwork in two parlors carved by Isaac Fitch and features eight corner fireplaces.

After the morning tours, there will be a lunch provided by the Lebanon Historical Society. There will be time in the afternoon for visiting the historic sites around the town green, Yves Saint Laurent Shoes open from 12-4 p.m. These include the Governor Jonathan Trumbull House (ca. 1740), the Dr. William Beaumont Birthplace (ca. 1 760), the Wadsworth Stable (ca. 1 820), the Revolutionary War Office (ca. 1758 or earlier), and the First Congregational Church (1804-09), which was designed by John Trumbull, the patriot artist of the Revolution.

Reservations are required for lunch and the tours of Redwood. There is no registration fee, but there is charge of $10 for the lunch. Contact Howard Wayland at or call 860-642-7987 by September 15. Watch for registration announcements. And don't forget! This EAIA Regional Meeting follows Martin Donnelly's Fall Auction in Nashua, N.H., on Friday and Saturday, September 17 and 18. Plan to stop in Lebanon on your way home.

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Sentiments on sale [Life]

THE recent cultural furore isn't just over Gandhi's sandals or glasses. It's also over Prince Charles' love letters to a Canadian woman, written 30 years ago, being put for sale online! The big question is should personal memorabilia of great leaders and icons be put up for auction? Interestingly, The Chicago Tribune asks, what would Gandhi have done, if he would have seen his modest items being on sale for an obscene prize?

Even though liquor baron Vijay Mallya has paid $1.8 million for the Mahatma's possessions, fact is, there are personal belongings of Gandhi in India that are in a pathetic state of neglect. Says O P Aggarwal, director INTACH and ICCI (Indian Council of Conservation Institute), "Why aren't people bothered about preserving his possessions in India? We've set up a Gandhi museum in Lucknow. We found his belongings - dhoti, Kasturba's sari, kurtas he wove himself, letters written by him - scattered all over India. To me, the sale of his personal stuff is preposterous."

Personal belongings of great national leaders, icons and royalty may not be of historical importance, but they give us great insight into their lives and relationships. "It's interesting to see some of Dr Rajendra Prasad's personal stuff conserved in Patna. For instance, we've taken care of his belongings like his Bharat Ratna award, clothes, bank passbook (which shows only a Rs 5,000 entry, when he died), and some of his books. Not only that, we've also worked on restoring Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose Birth Place Museum in Cuttack. The museum was the residence of Netaji's father, and we restored some personal memorabilia there," adds Aggarwal.

Meanwhile, it's crucial to track how Gandhiji's personal stuff left the country in the first place. Says conservation architect, Ritesh Nanda, "Every bid in London has articles from Indian royalty. We don't even have the Badshahnama, Shah Jahan's diary.

Personal belongings of historic figures have a cultural dimension."

Only recently, there was a sale of the collection of Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Berge items. Says Christie's spokesperson, Hannah Schmidt, "A sale by public auction offers one of the most transparent platforms for transfer of works of art. In June 2008, Christie's sold Charles Dickens' writing desk and chair, at which the author penned Great Expectations. It was sold for $847,004."

In June 2006 in London, Christie's put up jewellery from the private collection of Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon. Pieces fetched up to 150 times their original estimates. Says Schmidt, "In the memorabilia market, provenance is everything. Objects sold can be worth nothing in their own right, but their provenance adds tremendous value. For example, in 2004 Christie's sold a simple 1960s hippy-style necklace which had no value on its own but was owned by legendary singer John Lenon." Recently, former US President, John F. Kennedy's doddles were put up for auction, along with his passports and Omega wristwatch. Last year, Hollywood icon Marilyn Monroe's personal belongings went under the hammer for the first time in almost 46 years.

So, what's the state of personal memorabilia of great moghul kings and queens? Says Sunanda Srivastava of Archaeological Survey of India, "We can only preserve personal belongings that are more than 100 years old. In Delhi's Red Fort, we've preserved Mumtaz Mahal's clothes, jewellery and cutlery."

But is it okay to bid for personal memorabilia of the dead? Gita Kapur, feng shui expert, answers, "Collecting a dead person's items is bad feng shui. Each item will carry the energy of the predecessor. I warn people who buy antiques to 'space clear' the item with wet cloth and sea salt." Think twice before yo
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Sensitive portrayal shows life

Simon Hales, 20, is the oldest of three sons and became the man of the house when his father died. He's popular, charming and clever, part-way through his second year at Newcastle University.

On an ordinary night out with friends, a little bit the worse for wear, Simon and friends are refused entry to a nightclub and so he decides to try to sneak in.

Climbing on to a wheelie bin, he topples over a wall and falls 20ft, landing on his head.

Awaking from a coma some five weeks later, Simon is a changed man. He has memory and speech problems and has undergone something of a personality change.

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He is, as the specialist so jauntily puts out, "sometimes 'out to lunch'".

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His patient mother bears the brunt of Simon's aggressive, sweary outbursts as he rails with frustration about his changed situation.

He doesn't want to be in the rehab unit, he wants to go home. Yet the rehab unit - with its firm but reassuring staff - is where he really needs to be.

One therapist asks him if he knows why he needs to stay there. He taps his head.

"Because you've got a bad haircut?" - Simon's laugh shows he hasn't entirely lost his sense of humour.

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Simon's family concentrate on what they have got, with the "new" Simon rather than thinking about what they have lost.

Watching the three boys bicker and compete was incredibly uplifting.

When - during a jovial exchange about chores in the house - his brother George complains that Simon hadn't been helping out with the washing-up in January, Simon yells: "I was in a coma!".

Sensitively made, what this programme did have by the bucketload was hope. The Hales family are determined to do the best they can for Simon to help him adjust to his new life.

A return to Newcastle to relive the accident convinces Simon that it's time to move on.

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