Update on Forthcoming Two-Volume Western New York Book

I will be finalizing the two-volume Western New York book I'm working on in the next month or so; this will be the ninth installment of my pottery book series, titled, America's Great Awakening and Migration: The Red Earthenware of Western New York. The book runs over 1,300-pages and it will present lots of never before published material from the career of New York archaeologist and museum specialist George R. Hamell, including parts of an unpublished manuscript he wrote more than 40 years ago, as well as hundreds of pages of archaeology he collected at numerous potter's sites in the Western New York region in the 1970s, now kept in storage at the Rochester Museum & Science Center in Rochester, New York. The book will also present much of his collection that has never been published before, including dozens of pieces owned by the Rochester Museum & Science Center. 

This is how the format of each volume will appear:

Volume I: 673 pages, Chapters 1-17

Volume II: 671 pages, Chapters 18-37

Other subjects that will be included are dozens of objects that have never been published, which have been owned privately in Western New York for decades, many of which are adorned with glazes that transform the pieces into works of art. There will also be a heavy emphasis given to Erie County, New York, as well as the German influence in this region. The book will also include numerous objects owned by dozens of museums and historical societies located all over New York State. There will be lots of documents, paperwork, etc. Volume II will also include some information and archaeology about eighteenth and nineteenth century red earthenware potters located elsewhere in New York State.

Nonetheless, the names of the potters that will be highlighted from Western New York include Yost, Thorn, Whartenby, Shortstaff, Wagstaff, Rifford, Griffin, Wilcox, Prosser, Hurlbut, Pilsbury, Gates, Rochester, Kimball, Lewis, Drake, Gleason, Seymour, Mehwaldt, Johnson, Case, Suess, the Ebenezer Society, Cornell, Graham, Betz, Haven, Kinyon, Fenton, among many others.

Furthermore, if anyone seeing this post has any red earthenware from Western New York that they would like to have published - please feel free to contact me!

Update on Forthcoming Two-Volume Western New York Book

This is Volume I

George R. Hamell is Shown

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This is Volume II

George R. Hamell is Shown

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Please Stay Tuned...Much More to Come...