On Friday, March 22 at 1:30 pm. Archivist Eva Garcelon-Hart and avid ephemera collector, Lucinda Cockrell, will present "Never Meant to Last: Everyday Treasures of Ephemera from the Archival Collections of the Henry Sheldon Museum" at the Sheldon Museum as part of the Sheldon's Did You Know? series. 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 Nobel Prize laureate poet Czesław Miłosz and for pictorial collections at the Bancroft Library at UC Berkeley and 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. Advance registration is 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 other talks presented in the Did You Know? series, visit www.henrysheldonmuseum.org. The Sheldon Museum is located at One Park Street, Middlebury.

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