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Article: EGG ON MILDRED VROMAN'S EASTER EGG EXHBIT IS A PERPETUAL WORK IN PROGRESS.(PREVIEW)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- April 12, 2001
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Byline: MICHAEL ECK Special to the Times Union
SCHOHARIE -- The best American museums are the little ones, the obsessive ones. Mildred Vroman's Easter Egg Exhibit qualifies, and then some.
The exhibit, which houses more than 4,500 decorated eggs in its new home, is a Schoharie landmark with roots that go back almost 50 years to the days when Vroman, now 92, was a town librarian.
In 1953, the library received a copy of Katherine Milhouse's Caldecott Award-winning children's book, ``The Egg Tree,'' which described the Pennsylvania Dutch tradition of hanging painted eggs from the limbs of bare white trees.
Vroman was enchanted by the ...