This past Thursday the Spring Hill Public Library continued their monthly lecture series. The featured speaker was Candice Roland Candeto, the Senior Curator of Fine and Decorative Art at the Tennessee State Museum. She talked mostly about the furniture made in Tennessee and exhibited in the museum. It was interesting to learn most pieces were constructed using primarily cherry, tulip poplar or walnut. Among the furniture shown during the slide presentations were dressers, desks and pie safes. The blue coloring on the front was used to help keep insects from entering the pie safe. Apparently the same logic was used in painting porch ceilings in the South a blue to keep wasps from building nest!
PIE SAFES
NOTICE THE BLUE COLOR WHICH I MENTIONED EARLIER
THIS LABEL WAS ADHERED TO THE INSIDE OF THE DRESSER
SUCH AN INTERESTING FEATURE WAS ADDED TO THE DRESSER… A SORT OF DULCIMER WAS PLAYED WHEN THE DOOR OPENED!
LEWIS BUCKNER WAS BORN A SLAVE AND WORKED AS A CARPENTER, CABINETMAKER AND HOUSE BUILDER IN SEVIER COUNTY, TENNESSEE AFTER THE CIVIL WAR. THE TALENTED AFRICAN-AMERICAN CRAFTSMAN HAND-CARVED ELABORATE FURNITURE, MANTELS, STAIRCASES AND THE EXTERIOR TRIM AND PORCHES FOR MANY VICTORIAN-ERA HOUSES.
Please visit tnmuseum.org for more information regarding this hidden gem.
Blessings,
Frannie
Please excuse the quality of the pictures. I was photographing the slide presentation.
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