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The Benjamin Franklin Tercentenary

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he Benjamin Franklin Tercentenary is a private, non-profit alliance established to mark the three-hundred-year anniversary of Benjamin Franklin’s birth (1706-2006) with a celebration dedicated to educating the public about Franklin’s enduring legacy and inspiring renewed appreciation of the values he embodied. The Benjamin Franklin Tercentenary represents a consortium created in 2000 by the American Philosophical Society, The Franklin Institute, the Library Company of Philadelphia, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the University of Pennsylvania. The consortium is supported by a $4 million gift to the nation from The Pew Charitable Trusts. The Tercentenary’s projects will form the official national celebration for America’s first founding father to reach 300.

Dr. Remer was a history professor at Moravian College, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania for fourteen years, teaching a broad range of early American History courses and authoring several articles and a book. Her area of particular expertise is printing, publishing, and the press in late-eighteenth century America, as well as the history of entrepreneurship in the colonial and early national periods. In addition, Dr. Remer was the Director of Museum Planning and Programming at the National Constitution Center; a consultant to the National Park Service on the development of the new Liberty Bell exhibit; a consultant to the Greater Philadelphia Tourism Marketing Corporation and Edward G. Rendell on the development of Heritage Tourism in Philadelphia; and is immediate past president of the Pennsylvania Historical Association, amongst many other responsibilities and honors.

Dr. Talbott has thirty years of experience as an independent curator and decorative and fine arts consultant for museums, historical societies, and historic house museums. She has curated numerous exhibitions including Philadelphia’s Cultural Landscape: The Sartain Family Legacy; Two Hundred Years of Caring: The Lancaster County Almshouse and Hospital; Boston in the Age of Neoclassicism; The Philadelphia Ten: Woman’s Artist Group 1917-1945; and Classical Savannah: Fine and Decorative Arts 1800-1840. She is the author of several books, museum catalogs, and numerous articles. Her areas of expertise include American interiors and American fine and decorative arts.