BILL MEMBERSHIP REQUIRED TO REGISTER MAY 10 THROUGH MAY 23
Join the Bucknell Institute for Lifelong Learning for a special guided tour of the Thomas T. Taber Museum in Williamsport at 1 p.m. on Wednesday, June 5, followed by a talk on the artist Dewing Woodward by historian Mary Sieminski. The talk will be held at the Backhouse Café across the street from the museum, beginning at 2:30 p.m. Light refreshments will be served.
Lycoming County Historical Society’s Taber Museum in Williamsport chronicles the history of north central Pennsylvania, from its earliest native American inhabitants through 21st century industry and life. Exhibits include the James Bressler American Indian Gallery, Fine & Decorative Arts Gallery, LaRue Shempp Model Train Exhibit with over 300 toy trains, period rooms depicting life from the 1700s through the 1900s, and much more. [Visit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pvv8ITIpWU&t=8s to preview some of the collections.]
After the tour, participants will visit the historic Backhouse Café, across the street from the museum, for light refreshments and a talk by BILL instructor and retired university librarian Mary Sieminski. She will discuss painter, author, and instructor Dewing Woodward who for years taught as the sole art professor for the Female Institute of the University of Lewisburg (later a part of Bucknell University). Born in Williamsport, Pennsylvania in 1856, Martha Dewing Woodward was the youngest of eight children of John Vanderbilt Woodward, who is said to have been a cousin of Cornelius Vanderbilt, and wealthy Ann York Woodward. In 1907, Woodward and her partner, Louise Johnson, founded the Blue Dome Fellowship in Woodstock, New York, which Woodward continued in Florida after her move there. In her 1950 obituary, the somewhat controversial Woodward was described as “one of the nation’s leading painters.”
Participants must arrange their own transportation.
The Taber Museum is located at 858 West 4th Street, Williamsport, PA.
Backhouse Café is located across the street at 901 West 4th St., Williamsport, PA