Join us at the Albany Town Hall for an informative program about Vermont's Historic Theater Curtains with Christine Hadsel.

Between 1880 and World War II, painted theater curtains were artistic features of most New England villages and towns. In Vermont, painted curtains graced stages in town and grange halls, opera houses, and community theaters. A culture of local variety shows and traveling, professional talent flourished in front of those curtains in some very remote Vermont communities. In a tour of some of the 177 curtains in Vermont, Christine Hadsel, director of Curtains Without Borders, provides a glimpse into the world of talented and often sophisticated artists who were part of the rural cultural scene, illustrating the rich cultural history of small-town Vermont before World War I.

In 2004, Christine worked with community members in Albany to restore the two painted curtains in the Albany Town Hall, and we are very happy to be welcoming her back.

This talk is free, open to the public, and accessible to those with disabilities. For more information, contact Kristin Urie at (802) 755-6107 or albanypubliclibraryvt@gmail.com.

Vermont's Historic Theater Curtains is a Vermont Humanities program hosted by Albany Public Library.