Thomas C. Hubka , author of Big House, Little House, Back House, Barn, will speak at the Annual Meeting of the Hardwick Historical Society at 7:00, on Monday, May 13, at the Hardwick Town House, 127 Church Street, Hardwick, VT. The program is free and open to the public. The Hardwick Town House is handicapped accessible.

We encourage you to park in the Creamery Road parking area.

Hubka is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Architecture at the School of Architecture at the University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee. Through forty years of teaching, he has attempted to link our understanding of architecture to its historical and cultural contexts.

Big House, Little House… received the Abbot Lowell Cummings Award from the Vernacular Architecture Forum. It has been in continuous publication for 40 years and has become a scholarly and popular standard for New England architecture history and cultural studies.

This engaging talk will highlight the four essential components of the stately and beautiful nineteenth-century connected farm buildings that serve as a living expression of a rural culture and that offer insights into the people who made them and their agricultural way of life.

HCTV will capture the event for broadcast through its website.
The author will have books for signing and purchase at $30 each.
The HHS will host a reception at the Depot at the end of the program.

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