by Jenna Beaulieu | Jan 15, 2020 | Learn
by Roberto Rodriguez, former Director of Curatorial Affairs You may have heard of White trucks or White sewing machines but a White steam car? You learn something new every day. This is one of 167 Whites known to exist, one of five model M-Ms, and one of only three...
by Jenna Beaulieu | Dec 30, 2019 | Learn
by Roberto Rodriguez, former Director of Curatorial Affairs Evaline Kimball was born in Rumford, Maine, on her family’s farm in 1864. Growing up, she went to live in Chicago with her uncle William Wallace Kimball, the founder of the Kimball Piano Company. “With...
by Jenna Beaulieu | Dec 9, 2019 | Learn
by Roberto Rodriguez, former Director of Curatorial Affairs A “supercar” is loosely defined as a high-performance street-legal car. I’ll tell you all about America’s first Supercar – the Stanley K Semi-Racer – but first a bit of background history. In...
by Jenna Beaulieu | Dec 2, 2019 | Uncategorized
The 2019 season, my first as Curator of Education, was stuffed to its hilt with beautiful days (and busy, rainy days!), great visitors, and fun events and programming at the museum. We are now in our off-season, and I thought it appropriate to reflect on some of the...
by Jenna Beaulieu | Nov 1, 2019 | Uncategorized
by Roberto Rodriguez, former Director of Curatorial Services Albert Augustus Pope emerged from the Civil War at the age of 22, with the brevetted rank of Colonel, commendations for bravery, and a small amount of carefully-saved military pay. Setting up shop in Boston,...
by Jenna Beaulieu | Oct 23, 2019 | Uncategorized
Selected by Jenna Beaulieu, Curator of Education Nothing beats a bedtime story – except perhaps a daytime story, after-lunch story, on-a-road-trip story…wait – maybe stories are just great all the way around! Picture books are an amazing way to...
by Jenna Beaulieu | Oct 8, 2019 | Learn
By Roberto M. Rodriguez, Retired In 1905, Theodore Roosevelt occupied the White House, the average life expectancy was 47 years, only 14% of the homes in the U.S. had a bathtub, the tallest structure in the world was the Eiffel Tower, the average wage in the U.S. was...
by Jenna Beaulieu | Sep 30, 2019 | Updates
During this second year of our current exhibit, Selling Lifestyle and Leisure: Art, Advertising, and the Automobile, we decided to recreate some of our favorite advertisements or artworks featuring motor vehicles on display at the Seal Cove Auto Museum. Who else to...
by Jenna Beaulieu | Sep 15, 2019 | Learn
By Roberto M. Rodriguez (Ret.), former Curator of Collection “Ground floor: Perfumery, stationery, and leather goods, wigs and haberdashery, kitchenware, food and Searchmonts. Going up… ” So might have said the elevator operator at Wanemaker’s...
by Jenna Beaulieu | Aug 30, 2019 | Uncategorized
At the auto museum, we are always excited to welcome descendants of an owner or manufacturer of a motor vehicle in our collection. Last year, we welcomed descendants of Finley Robertson Porter, builder of the F.R.P., and Helen Hartley Jenkins, original owner of the...
