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FRUGAL
YANKEES BY NATURE, THE ROBINSONS SAVED ALMOST EVERY POSSESSION THEY
ACCUMULATED DURING THEIR YEARS AT ROKEBY.
Today this collection remains
intact and offers visitors glimpses of life as it was lived through
three centuries.
The house, a late eighteenth-century Vermont Cape with an imposing,
but severe Federal-style addition, displays the family's personal and
domestic belongings — furniture, kitchen ware, clothing and textiles,
and a large collection of art in every medium created by family members.
It houses the family's immense library of books, pamphlets, and periodicals.
Agricultural implements and artifacts relating to wool, butter, and
fruit production are on view in the outbuildings.
The interpretation at Rokeby Museum is supported and documented by an
extensive array of primary documents. more than 10,000 family letters
and several hundred manuscript and printed documents, diaries, and account
books from the eighteenth to twentieth centuries are availble to researchers.
Photographs from the earliest days of photography to the 1960s provide
a pictorial record of the family and the site.
Here you can see a few samples
of what you will find at Rokeby:
Early
Advertising
Blanket
Chest
Camel's
Hump,
painted by Rowland Evans Robinson
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Rokeby
Butter Mold
Rokeby
Sheep Stamp
Daisies,
painted by Anne Stevens Robinson
Great
Convention Abolitionist Flyer
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