This Thursday - Historian & Author Eric Sandweiss at The Velaslavasay Panorama

Charles Cushman's Journey Through a Vanishing America
An Illustrated Lecture by Eric Sandweiss

Thursday, June 7th, 2012
8 o'clock pm
Tickets $12 {$10 VPES Members}
Advance tickets are highly recommended and available at
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/242694

Please join us in welcoming Eric Sandweiss, a professor of architectural and urban history at Indiana University, who will offer an illustrated lecture highlighting the life and art of Charles Cushman, prolific amateur photographer and part-time businessman.

The Charles W. Cushman Photograph Collection is a time capsule filled with images of small towns, factories, farm fields, and urban neighborhoods as yet unaltered by a layer of postwar interstates, suburbs, and urban renewal projects, and are quite unlike the better-known midcentury views offered by writers such as John Steinbeck (who traveled many of the same roads), or by the photographers who worked for the WPA's Farm Security Administration.

Eric Sandweiss's new book The Day in its Color: Charles Cushman's Photographic Journey Through a Vanishing America, will be available at the event.