From the ACSM Collection

While the ACSM is currently closed due to the health emergency, our Face Book page is open and ready to entertain you.   We are currently posting images from our collection on a daily basis and hope that you will enjoy them and make plans to visit in person when the emergency lifts.  For those who are out walking – in a socially responsible manner of course – we have copies of our Walking Tour available on the outside of the Museum door.  In case you have lost your own copy or forgot to buy one at the Museum, please stop by and pick up one – the Tour covers all three villages and is full of information and great trivia facts.  (If the bag is empty, please send an email to the museum  (ardencraftshopmuseum@gmail.com) and we will replenish the supply.
Our 15th Anniversary Exhibition will reopen as soon as possible.  Many thanks for your continued support.  You are Welcome Hither on line and soon again in person.

From the ACSM collection - the Arden Leaves, April 1913, excerpt from the cover piece by Elsie V.H. Baldwin. May we all soon return to our own well -loved life in The Ardens.
                       
Had I my choice, these are the things I’d ask; a little leisure
for a well-loved task; a quiet hill, where space unfolds her
wings and winds are fresh and breathe of far-off things…
a little house where friends may come and site: an open
gate whereon this motto’s writ:
“Good friend, behold beneath these trees
A gate that loves a Guest:
Here he who walks may sit at ease
And he who runs, may rest!  ...

Naaman's Creek, ACSM 00141