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Erica Lome, a curator with Historic New England, talks about colonial revival furniture in a free lecture Tuesday at Whittier Birthplace.
Lome, who specializes in American decorative arts and material culture, discusses “Heirlooms of Tomorrow: Colonial Revival Furniture 1890-1945.” It takes place Tuesday, June 23, at 6 p.m., in the Gus Reusch Welcome Center, 305 Whittier Road, Haverhill.
The talk is part of a summer series of three lectures on historic preservation at the Birthplace. The ongoing restoration of the Whittier Birthplace barn will be the topic of the Wednesday, July 23 talk. Elizabeth Paige, the senior preservation services manager at Historic New England, will talk the role of women in historic preservation in New England on Tuesday, Aug. 25.