Virtual Program - Night of Prizes, December 12, 2024 6:00PM

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Virtual Program - Night of Prizes

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Thursday, December 12, 6:00 p.m.

Join us for a virtual celebration of the winners of this year's Historic New England Book Prize and Prize for Collecting Works on Paper. Hear remarks from Vin Cipolla, Historic New England President and CEO, and the prizewinners.

The Historic New England Book Prize is awarded annually to a book that advances the understanding of life in New England from the past to today by examining its architecture, landscape, and material culture.

• The 2024 Book Prize is awarded to Elena M. Sarni, author of Trailblazing Women Printmakers: Virginia Lee Burton Demetrios and the Folly Cove Designers (Princeton Architectural Press, 2023). 
• The 2024 Honor Book is awarded to Ethan Carr, author of Boston’s Franklin Park: Olmsted, Recreation, and the Modern City (Library of American Landscape History, 2023) and Margaretta Markle Lovell, author of Painting the Inhabited Landscape: Fitz H. Lane and the Global Reach of Antebellum America (The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2023).

The Prize for Collecting Works on Paper honors those who have assembled or helped save significant collections related to New England and its diverse communities or to the nation as a whole.

• The 2024 Prize for Collecting Works on Paper is awarded to Frank Romano, President, Museum of Printing, Haverhill, Massachusetts.

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