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CONCERTSJN.THE COURTYARD The Collection’s spring concert series, sponsored by AOS Interior Environments, wraps up with a performance by local indie favorite Sweet Crude. Admission includes three complimentary drinks. Friday, June 17, 5:30-8 p.m. 533 Royal Street $io admission; free for THNOC members “BEYOND A COMPANY MAN” LECTURE join THNOC Curator/Historian Erin M. Creenwald as she introduces and signs her new book, Marc-Antoine Caillot and the Company of the Indies in Louisiana: Trade in the French Atlantic World (LSU Press, 2016). Creenwald pushes beyond the first-person narrative introduced in A Company Man: The Remarkable French-Atlantic Voyage of a Clerk for the Company of the Indies (THNOC, 2013) to explore Louisiana’s place within the wider 18th-century world. Tuesday, June 21, 6 p.m. Williams Research Center, 410 Chartres Street Free “RUM, RHUM, RON! A HISTORY OF RUM IN THE NEW WORLD” his culinary symposium will celebrate the history, production, and consumption of the most widely produced liquor in Louisiana. The event will be moderated by jessica Harris and features Ed Hamilton from the Ministry of Rum, New York Times drink columnist Rosie Schaap, cocktail historian Elizabeth Pearce, and more. The program also includes a happy hour event on Friday at the Palace Cafe and a rum tasting Saturday evening at the Hotel Monteleone. Friday-Saturday, |une 24-25 Williams Research Center, 410 Chartres Street $70 per person; $60 for teachers, students, and THNOC members; attendees must be 21 or over To register or for more information, including a full schedule of events, visit www.hnoc.org, email wrc@hnoc.org, or call (504) 523-4662. All exhibitions are free unless noted otherwise. LES COMEDIENS FRAN^AIS LECTURE In this year’s French-heritage lecture, "Rediscovering Victor Sejour,” WRC Director Alfred E. Lemmon will discuss the life of the Creole author, and others will read from his works. Thursday, July 7, 6 p.m. Williams Research Center, 410 Chartres Street Free; for reservations, call (504) 523-4662 or email wrc@hnoc.org. VOICES OF PROGRESS LECTURE Presented in conjunction with The Collection's exhibition on women of influence, this book signing and lecture spotlights the work of Pamela Tyler, author of New Orleans Women and the Poydras Home: More Durable than Marble (LSU Press, 2016). Wednesday, July 27, 6 p.m. 533 Royal Street . Free. Voices of Progress: Twenty Women Who Changed New Orleans Through September 11, 2016 Williams Gallery, 533 Royal Street Money, Money, Money! Currency Holdings from The Historic New Orleans Collection Through October 29, 2016 Williams Research Center, 410 Chartres Street The Seignouret-Brulatour House: A New Chapter Through January 2018 Orientation center, 533 Royal Street A scale model, facility plans, and historical vignettes illuminate the past, present, and future of the 200-year-0ld Seignouret-Brulatour building on Royal Street, which The Collection will open to the public in 2018. PERMANENT Louisiana History Galleries 533 Royal Street Tuesday-Saturday, 9:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Sunday, 10:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. The Williams Residence Tour THNOC Architectural Tour 533 Royal Street Tuesday-Saturday, 10 and 11 a.m., 2 and 3 p.m. Sunday, 11 a.m., 2 and 3 p.m. $5 per person Croups of eight or more should call (5 04) 598-7145 for reservations or visit www.hnoc.org. Educational tours for school groups are available free of charge; please contact Daphne L. Derven, curator of education, at (504) 598-7154 or daphned@hnoc.org. Goods of Every Description: Shopping in New Orleans, 1825-1925 September 23, 2016—April 9, 2017 Williams Gallery, 533 Royal Street ■ 2Q16iNEMhORLEANS ANTIQUES F.ORUM See inside back cover for more information about this year's forum, ‘‘Dinner Is Served: Decorative Arts and Dining in the South." Thursday-Sunday, August 4-7 Williams Research Center, 410 Chartres Street Registration is required._Visit www.hnoc.org/antiques.htm or call (504) 523-4662. VOICESrOF PROGRESS,LECTURE Janet Allured,'professor of history at McNeese State University, will discuss her forthcoming book, Remapping Second-Wave Feminism: The Long Women's Rights Movement in Louisiana, 1950-1997 (University of Georgia Press, 2016). Thursday, August n, 6 p.m. 533 Royal Street Free 533 Royal Street Williams Gallery, Louisiana History Galleries, Shop, and Tours Tuesday-Saturday, 9:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m.-; Sunday, 10:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. 400 and 410 Chartres Street Williams Research Center, Boyd Cruise Gallery, and Laura Simon Nelson Galleries Tuesday-Saturday, 9:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m.
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