Robert C. Cheney, Brimfield, Massachusetts, third generation clockmaker and conservator, co-author Clock Making in New England, 1725-1825, assistant chairman The Longitude Symposium, Scholar in Residence, The Concord Museum, and head of department, Clocks, Watches and Scientific Instruments, Skinner Inc., Boston, www.skinnerinc.com
Donald Fennimore - Claggett's Masterpiece at the Redwood
Curator Emeritus, Winterthur.
Co-Author, Stretch: America’s First Family of Clockmakers
Frank L. Hohmann III - Claggett's Masterpiece at the Redwood
Co-Author, Timeless: Masterpiece American Brass Dial Clocks; and Stretch: America’s First Family of Clockmakers. Winterthur Board of Trustees. New York, NY
Philip Poniz - Pocket watches at Winterthur: How They Were Made
Horological Expert, Historian & Restorer. Princeton, NJ
Jonathan Snellenburg - Dubuc George Washington Clocks
Director, Watches and Clocks, Bonhams New York, www.bonhams.com
SPEAKER PROFILES
Thomas Allen - James Arthur Lecture
"What Do Clocks Have to Do With Time?"
Author, A Republic in Time, 2008. Associate Professor of English, University of Ottawa. NEH Fellow, Winterthur, 2003-2004.
Richard Ketchen - Simon Willard Movement Details and Description, Assessment and Analysis
Clockmaker, restorer, and horological book collector. Carlisle, MA
Jeffrey Lock - Rittenhouse Engraved Clock Dials
Colonial Instruments, www.colonialinstruments.com
Charles Hummel - Dominy Family and Clockshop
Curator Emeritus, Winterthur. Author, With Hammer in Hand, 1968, (reprinted 1973, 1977, 1982)
Joshua Lane - Highlights of the Winterthur Horological Collections
Curator of Furniture, Museum Collections Department, Winterthur Museum
Ann Wagner - Highlights of the Winterthur Horological Collections
Curator of Decorative Arts, Winterthur Museum
Gary Sullivan - Clockmaking in Rhode Island
Independent Scholar, Président, Gary R. Sullivan Antiques, Inc., Canton, MA.
Co-Author Musical Clocks of Early America: 1730-1830 (available late 2016); Co-Author Rhode Island Furniture 1650-1830 (available August, 2016); Co-Author Harbor & Home: Furniture of Southeastern Massachusetts, 1710-1850. Curator Keeping Time: Musical Clocks of Early America 1730-1830, Willard House & Clock Museum, 2013
Philip Zimmerman - Delaware Clocks and Clockmakers
Museum and Decorative Arts Consultant, Lancaster, PA. Author, Delaware Clocks, Biggs Museum of American Art, Dover, Delaware, 2006.
Mark Anderson - Stretch Clock Conservation
Senior Furniture Conservator, Conservation Department, Winterthur
Richard Newman - Watch Papers in the Winterthur Archives
Colonial & Early American Horologist. Board of Directors, NAWCC. Richard Newman has authored numerous articles on clocks and watches, and hosts www.colonialwatches.com, a research website devoted to colonial and early American watchmakers.
Philip Morris - Eli Terry & Connecticut Wood Movement Clocks
Author, American Wooden Movement Tall Clocks: 1712-1835. Hoover, AL
Ronald Hoppes - Rittenhouse Clock Movement
Author, The Most Important Clock in America, American Philosophical Society, 2009
Morrison Heckscher - Opening Reception Keynote
Comparing Clocks at the Met and Winterthur
Curator Emeritus of The American Wing, Metropolitan Museum of Art. Author, American Furniture in The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Late Colonial Period- The Queen Anne and Chippendale Styles, 1986.
Lisa Minardi - New Discoveries in Pennsylvania Clock Cases and Painted Dials
Assistant Curator, Collections, Museum Collections Department, Winterthur. Co-author, Paint, Pattern & People, Furniture of Southeastern Pennsylvania, 1725-1850. Author, A Colorful Folk, Pennsylvania Germans and the Art of Everyday Life, 2015.
Dennis Carr - Overview of "Made in the Americas Exhibit"
Carolyn and Peter Lynch Curator of Decorative Arts and Sculpture
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
David Wood - Variations on a Theme: The Diamond-Head Timepiece
Curator, Concord Museum, Concord, MA. Author, An Observant Eye: The Thoreau Collection at the Concord Museum, 2006
Jeff Groff - Winterthur Introduction and History
Director of Interpretation & Estate Historian
Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library
Marshall Steel Fellow at Colonial Williamsburg
(Ms. Mallin's presentation is generously sponsored by Gary Sullivan)
Elisabeth Mallin - Clocks of Germantown, Pennsylvania
