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...
by Jenna Beaulieu | Aug 9, 2019 | Updates
Earlier this year, we were pleased that Camp Beech Cliff approached us and asked if we would host a Tinker Camp for them here at the auto museum. A couple months later, we were even MORE pleased to hear that Tinker Camp was so popular among the registrants that Camp...
by Jenna Beaulieu | Jul 23, 2019 | Learn
By Roberto M. Rodriguez, Retired What would you do if you had just taken over control of a debt-ridden company with a pile of unsold spare parts? If you were Charles Herman Metz, you would have come up with a plan – because not only did you possess a fine...
by Jenna Beaulieu | Jul 17, 2019 | Learn
Summer 1916 – Augusta (32) and Adeline (26) Van Buren, two sisters, become the second and third women to drive coast-to-coast trip on their own solo motorcycles (the first was Effie Hotchkiss – her mother technically rode, not drove), and the...
by Jenna Beaulieu | Jul 8, 2019 | Learn
The Pioneers of Automobile Collecting by Roberto M. Rodriguez (Ret.) Let me take you back to the very beginning of the old car hobby – back to 1939 to be exact – and an article that appeared on September 8 of that year. The headline read, “Vintage Cars...
