Adelaide Austell Craver Memorial Lecture
The first annual Adelaide Austell Craver Memorial Lecture will be presented at the Blowing Rock Art & History Museum during the summer of 2022. The program will feature Rand Suffolk, Director of the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, Georgia.
Adelaide Austell Craver, a 76-year-old native and resident of Shelby, North Carolina, died in January of 2019. In 1948 when she was six years old, her parents, the Austells of Shelby, converted the former "Gun Club" of the Mayview Manor Hotel into their summer residence.
Beginning then and continuing for the next 70 years until her death, Adelaide was an active summer resident of Blowing Rock. As an adult, she was a constant volunteer and assumed leadership positions of many local charitable causes in the Blowing Rock community.
In recent correspondence with the museum, Adelaide's husband Dick has said:
“Throughout her life, Adelaide loved most everything about Blowing Rock, but especially her lifelong friendship with many of the year-round and seasonal residents there whom she treasured. In addition, she always had a great sense of pride in the place and, in her later years, the Blowing Rock Art & History Museum was ranked "top priority" on her "Must See" list when showing our visiting house guests around the village.
Both my daughter Adelaide and son Newton join me in expressing our pleasure and gratitude to have the opportunity that the Blowing Rock Art & History Museum has provided for us to sponsor this year's — and hopefully many more — annual ‘Adelaide Austell Craver Memorial Lectures’."
Please note: This lecture is a membership benefit for members at the Patron ($1000) level and above.
If you are a Patron Level Member or above, please call the museum at 828-295-9099 to make your reservation. Seating is limited.