"Raise the Roof!" was the theme of this year's Shaker Museum and Library Gala, a dinner dance with silent and live auctions held under a tent on the grounds of the Darrow School, a beautiful former Shaker enclave in New Lebanon. The roof in question is that of the future library, which will one-day be housed in what is presently the roofless shell of an extraordinary stone Shaker barn adjacent to the campus. In the photograph at left, Museum and Library board chairman Jeff Daly with restorer extraordinaire Nancy Kyle, who is presently in the midst of saving the (Governor Samuel J.) Tilden House at the corner of Routes 20 and 22.
Old Chatham Sheepherding's Nancy Clark does her bidding; Amanda, Elizabeth & Judy Powers.
Thea Bennett and Cliff Rudisill; Tucker Welch and Old Chatham Hunt Master of the Hounds John Kinglsey.
Tom Clark and Dawn Fratangelo; Seth Rosenberg and Bill Powers.
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Matteline deVries-Dilling, founder of Lite Brite Neon, one of the evening's honoree of this year's Upstate Benefit adresses the gala from the Caboose's caboose.
- Karen Pearson. Courtesy Art Omi.
Olana senior vice president and landscape curatorMark Prezorski, president Sean Sawyer, The evenings honoree Kristin Gamble and New York State Assemblymember Didi Barrett.
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