MOUNT CRAWFORD, Va. – The Rushlight Club will hold their 2012 annual spring meeting in Harrisonburg, Va., on Thursday, April 26, through Sunday, April 29. The meeting is being hosted by Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates of neighboring Mount Crawford.
Meeting activities will include a day of lectures related to 18th and 19th century lighting, private tours of two outstanding Shenandoah Valley collections, and special previews of three important lighting collections being auctioned by Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates on April 28 and 29.
Seminar registration fee is $52 per person, which covers all activities including a Thursday night opening reception, Friday lectures and box lunch, and a banquet on Saturday night. Transportation will not be provided. Registration is open to Rushlight members and their families.
The Rushlight Club, founded in 1932 for the study and preservation of lighting, is one of the oldest organizations dedicated to a single aspect of material culture. The collecting and researching interests of members range from the earliest primitive lighting devices through lighting by gas and electricity.
The purpose of the club is to stimulate an interest in the study of early lighting including the use of early lighting devices and lighting fuels, and the origins and development of each, by means of written articles, lectures, exhibitions from private collections and through the medium of exchange.
Visit the club’s website at http://www.rushlight.org/ for additional information including membership applications.
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