Best seats in the house: Hallockville chair exhibit opens

BARBARAELLEN KOCH PHOTO
Rosemarie Hubbard of Calverton (left) and Florence Gajeski
(center) get a closer look at one of the chairs in Hallockville
Museum Farm’s newest exhibit as co-curator Richard Wines looks
on Friday night as the exhibit opened in the Trubisz Little
House.

Usually we see chairs as just part of a setting, but the new exhibit at Hallockville Museum Farm, “Best Seats in the House: The Chairs of Hallockville,” puts them front and center.
These chairs, all from the Hallockville collection, present a unique social and cultural history running from 1771 through the 1900s. The opening reception was Friday at 5 p.m.
Each chair tells a story