The Emily Dickinson Museum recently unveiled its $2.5 million restoration, which uses some artifacts from the Apple TV+ show 'Dickinson' in Amherst, Massachusetts.
AMHERST, Mass. — “Here is our ‘Wizard of Oz’ moment,” a guide said on a recent afternoon, before opening a door and stepping into the front foyer of the Emily Dickinson Museum.
“They know the myth: that she was odd, she was reclusive, she never married, she always wore white, she was obsessed with death — what was wrong with her?” Cybulski continued. “But hers was a full-color life.” Since 2001, visitorship has increased from about 7,000 people a year to about 15,000 before the pandemic, Jane Wald, the museum’s executive director, said in an interview. And even before the reopening in August, she said, its online programs showed a growing younger audience, including from the LGBTQ community.
The museum actually consists of two houses, joined together in 2003, following one of the more tangled and contentious sagas in American literary history, known in Dickinson circles as “the war between the houses.”Across the generous lawn from the Homestead sits the Evergreens, an Italianate mansion built for her brother, Austin Dickinson, and his wife, Susan. After Emily’s death, Lavinia gave her manuscripts to Susan to organize for publication.
“She didn’t want to see it covered with Amherst College football memorabilia,” Wald said, as had happened to other stately residences turned into fraternity houses at the college. The house is presented as it might have looked in 1855, when the Dickinsons moved back in following a period of financial hardship, and when Emily, then 25, began her most productive period.
Other clues were a bit more helpful. Martha had described the parlor as having a Brussels carpet, with baskets of flowers spilling out to the corners of the room.Sketches, with fabric swatches, by the costume designer Jennifer Moeller, from the show “Dickinson” at Harvard's Houghton Library in Cambridge, Mass., Dec. 7, 2021.
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