Archivist Eva Garcelon-Hart and avid ephemeral collector Lucinda Cockrell will present "Never Meant to Last: Everyday Treasures of Ephemera from the Archival Collection of the Henry Sheldon Museum". The talk will provide a unique glimpse into the Sheldon's colorful ephemera collection of broadsides, trade cards, posters, catalogs and other formats. Eva Garcelon-Hart has managed the Sheldon's Stewart-Swift Research Center since 2011. Lucinda Cockrell is a retired curator and archivist. Did you know that Eva worked for the poet Czeslaw Milosz, winner of the 1980 Nobel Prize for Literature, and in Pictorial Collections at the Bancroft Library at UC Berkeley and that Lucinda is co-author of the recently published book "How to Weed Your Attic: Getting Rid of Junk without Destroying History"?

Cost: $20/$10 for Sheldon members Advanced registration recommended online at www.henrysheldonmuseum.org or by calling 802-388-2117. Proceeds from the series will benefit the Sheldon Museum's education programs. For more information about the talks in the "Did You Know"series, visit www.henrysheldonmuseum.org.
The museum is located at One Park Street Middlebury