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Byers’ Choice continues to produce Salvation Army Carolers and donates a portion of the proceeds from their sale to the organization. Byers’ Choice has also collaborated with the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation to create a line of pieces depicting characters from Revolutionary-era Virginia which are sold by the foundation and other ...
Vaillancourt Folk Art and Byers' Choice partnered in 2012 to introduce Byers' Choice Caroler, designed in collaboration with another company. [47] The piece, Custom Christmas Artist Caroler, was introduced during the 17th annual Collector's Weekend at the Vaillancourt Studio by Bob Byers, Jr., President of Byers' Choice. [48] [49]
After collecting a formative group of American folk art pieces under the advisement of consultants and art dealers, art patron Abby Aldrich Rockefeller anonymously loaned part of her folk art collection to the Museum of Modern Art exhibition American Folk Art: The Art of the Common Man in America, 1750–1900 which ran from November 30, 1932, through January 14, 1933 in New York.
The palace was funded by the House of Burgesses in 1706 at the behest of Lt. Governor Edward Nott. [3] [4] It was built from 1706 onward.In 1710, its first official resident was Lt. Governor Alexander Spotswood who served as acting governor; the governor proper, George Hamilton, 1st Earl of Orkney, was absentee and is not known to have visited Virginia.
The Raleigh Tavern was a tavern in Williamsburg, Virginia, and was one of the largest taverns in colonial Virginia.It gained some fame in the pre-American Revolutionary War Colony of Virginia as a gathering place for legislators after several Royal Governors officially dissolved the House of Burgesses, the elected legislative body, when their actions did not suit the Crown.
William Sandys (1792 – 18 February 1874) (pronounced "Sands") was an English solicitor, member of the Percy Society, fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London, and remembered for his publication Christmas Carols Ancient and Modern (London, Richard Beckley, 1833), a collection of seasonal carols that Sandys had gathered and also apparently improvised.