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Exploring Our World: 18th Century Lighting


  • The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation Williamsburg, VA USA (map)

Few daily facts so comprehensively distinguish the entire human past from the last century of modern life than the way we light our homes. Electric light is something we take for granted, never more so than now when electricity shines back on our faces from a whole new virtual world that emanates from our screens. But how did people of the 18th century, standing at the threshold of that future, still light their homes and workspaces? Join curators Janine Skerry and Angelika Kuettner for a live discussion and Q&A about 18th-century lighting HERE.