Mansion House Presents 70 Years of Traps

(Oneida, NY) “Seventy Years of Traps” will be presented by Anthony Wonderley, Oneida Community Mansion House curator of collections and interpretation, at the Mansion House on Thursday, Oct. 1, at 7 p.m., during its fall adult enrichment series.

Newhouse and Victor traps made by the utopian Oneida Community and its successor company, the Oneida Community Ltd., were famous the world over. Locally, the trap business built Sherrill’s factories and established its silverware industry. This presentation, illustrated with many historical photographs from Mansion House holdings, coincides with a recently opened exhibit of Oneida traps dating from 1852 to 1925 at Sherrill Manufacturing, Inc. All talks are free and open to the public and are followed by a light reception.

Anthony Wonderley (Ph.D., Cornell University) is the author of two books, At the Font of the Marvelous, and Oneida Iroquois Folklore, Myth, and History: New York Oral Narrative from the Notes of H. E. Allen and Others. He was recently named a Fellow of the New York State Archaeological Association and his articles on archaeology, folklore, and history appear in such journals as American Antiquity, American Communal Societies Quarterly, Journal of Anthropological Research, New York History, Northeastern Anthropology, and Ontario Archaeology

The Oneida Community Mansion House was the home of the 19th century utopian Oneida Community (1848-1880). The Oneida Community Mansion House is located at 170 Kenwood Ave., Oneida, NY. For information call 315-363-0745 or visit www.oneidacommunity.org.

Mansion House Presents 70 Years of Traps

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