PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
June 22, 2006
Norwalk Museum, 41 North Main Street, South Norwalk, Conn.
1:00 pm
Mr. William Asadorain, author and cultural archaeologist, will be at the Norwalk Museum June 22 at 1 PM to officially donate to Mayor Richard Moccia, Marilyn Robinson, chairman of the Historical Commission, and Susan Gunn Bromley, Curator of the Norwalk Museum, his collection of Norwalk Pottery shards (fragments of pottery) and Norwalk Pottery to the Norwalk Museum.
Mr. Asadorian spent over a year collecting shards at the Smith Street site of Smith and Day Pottery, Norwalk, Connecticut. This collection will help the museum to document the vast variety of wares manufactured at the Smith Street pottery site from the 1820’s through the early 1890’s. In addition to shards the donation also includes kiln furniture and tiles from the Norwalk kilns and pieces that have been dug up in privies or along road and sites in Brooklyn and Manhattan, NY. Some of the shards have been reassembled into complete pots. The quality and scope of Mr. Asadorian’s donation is extremely important to our future understanding of the development and importance of Norwalk Pottery in the context of 19th C. industry and material culture in America.
This collection will be added to the Norwalk Museum’s present collection of Norwalk Pottery. The shards that Mr. Asadorian has collected are an extremely rich source of information, which will lead to a far greater understanding of Norwalk’s pottery tradition as well as the effects of industrialization and marketing on the industry in the face of changing technology and the growth of the middle-class.
This summer’s High School Intern Program students will assist the museum in sorting and cataloguing Mr. Asadorian’s collection as one of their major projects for the NM.
Please join us at 1:00 at the museum for the official presentation of the donation
to the Norwalk Museum by Mr. William Asadorian to Mayor Moccia, Marilyn Robinson,
Chairman of the Historical Commission and Curator Susan Gunn Bromley.
 |
 |