THURSDAY, JULY 29, 2021
Gold Benefactors
Sumner Anderson
Silver Benefactors
Brenda L. Johnson
Welch & Forbes LLC
Benefactors
Cheryl Edwards
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Gerry and MaryLee Halpin
Jo Anne Makely
Jonathan Buck Treat and Leslie Aitken
Helen and DuWayne Sayles
David M. Trebing
Featured Speaker
Anthony M. Amore is an author and expert in security matters, especially those related to art and homeland security. As Director of Security and Chief Investigator at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, he is charged with the ongoing efforts to recover thirteen works of art stolen from the museum in 1990. His latest and highly acclaimed work, The Woman Who Stole Vermeer (2020), profiles Rose Dugdale, the 33-year-old British heiress who orchestrated the largest art heist at the time: the 1974 theft of 19 works from the Russborough House in Ireland. He co-authored the Wall Street Journal best seller Stealing Rembrandts: The Untold Stories of Notorious Art Heists (2011) and is the author of New York Times Crime Bestseller The Art of the Con: The Most Notorious Fakes, Frauds and Forgeries in the Art World (2015).
In Conversation with
Curt DiCamillo, FRSA, internationally recognized authority on English country houses and the decorative arts, joined American Ancestors in February 2016 as our first Curator of Special Collections.
A longtime member of American Ancestors, Curt has led highly successful heritage tours for us to England and Scotland, lectured extensively in the United States and abroad, and taught classes on British culture and art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Curt was previously Executive Director of The National Trust for Scotland Foundation USA, where he successfully raised more than $7 million and initiated many innovative programs.
As Curator of Special Collections at American Ancestors, Curt provides strategic direction and expert guidance for organizing and exhibiting our extensive collection of family history-related artifacts and fine arts.
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D. Brenton Simons has changed the face of nonprofit-based genealogy in America by bringing the best scholarship to millions of users for more than fifteen years as President and CEO of American Ancestors and New England Historic Genealogical Society. He has overseen a historic expansion of the organization—the founding genealogical institution in America—which now serves more than 355,000 members in 139 countries and millions of online users, with 1.4 billion searchable names at AmericanAncestors.org.
An award-winning author, Brenton has been featured on CNN, FOX, BBC, PBS-TV, the New York Times, and elsewhere. He is Vice Chair of the Plymouth 400th Anniversary State Commission by appointment of His Excellency, the Hon. Charles D. Baker, Governor of Massachusetts, and is the Secretary of the Board of Directors of the New England Quarterly.
Ryan J. Woods is a fourteen-year veteran of key management positions at American Ancestors and New England Historic Genealogical Society. He serves as Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, and Clerk of the Council of the Corporation. In his roles he provides executive oversight for the day-to-day operations of seventeen activity areas. A dedicated researcher, Ryan has authored genealogical articles and regularly presents at national historical and genealogical conferences and events.
Ryan serves on several genealogical and hereditary nonprofit boards and committees, including as Chairman of the Committee on Heraldry, as a member of the Committee on Pretensions of the Society of the Cincinnati in the State of Connecticut, and as Lieutenant Governor of the Society of Colonial Wars in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and holds several other memberships.
For more information or to submit your questions for Anthony Amore, please contact Courtney Reardon at Courtney.Reardon@nehgs.org or 617-226-1215.
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