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In this Issue: Bead Museum is moving Bead Museum exhibits Manhattan/Beads Republished |
Bead News Flash |
No. 2 Reporter: Pete Francis |
Bead Museum is Moving
It's official: the Bead Museum is moving to Glendale, AZ. The Bead Museum of Prescott has completed negotiations and will be shifting to the Phoenix suburb in the spring and summer of 1999. The Grand Opening is slated for the fall of that year. The Museum will continue to operate in Prescott until the move.
In a related announcement, Cheryl Cobern-Browne has been appointed as the new director, to succeed Bead Museum founder, Gabrielle Liese. Liese has been looking for a new home for the Museum for several years. She is enthusiastic about the support the city of Glendale has offered to the institution. Its proximity to one of the nation's largest cities will also make it more accessible to visitors.
The first home of the Bead Museum will be an erstwhile bank building in the center of Glendale. It will, however, be temporary as it is slated to be demolished to make way for a park walk-way connecting the City Hall and a new Civic Center. Glendale will find another suitable building for the Bead Museum in the next year or so.
Bead Museum Exhibits
The Bead Museum of Prescott AZ continues to operate, offering visitors a look into the vast world of beads. Three special exhibits are currently offered. They are:
Amber, and What Is Not; Coral, the Universal Favorite; and Egyptian Jewelry of the People. (For some people's jewelry from Egypt see here.)Beads and Manhattan Again
The Beads That Did
Not Buy Manhattan Island, the paper that won Pete Francis the 1987 Kerr History Prize for outstanding contribution to the history of New York State, has been reprinted again. It is included in the October issue of New York History [78(4):411-28], the journal in which it first appeared.The Introduction to the volume reads, "The New York State Historical Association has published some seventy-four articles dealing with aspects of the history of Indian groups in New York State. Most of these essays are out of print. Several, including some that were published relatively recently, attracted particular attention, and requests for additional copies have exhausted our supply. Because of this combined interest and demand, we are devoting the October 1997 issue to the republication of four noteworthy articles:..." For more on this continuing story see here.