Members First: Engaging Experts - Hallowe’en in America

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September 3, 2025
Halloween has not always been the night of ghoulish and garish decorations, candy and trick-or-treating we know today. Jim Johnson, Director of Greenfield Village and Curator of Historic Structures & Landscapes, along with Jeanine Head Miller, Curator of Domestic Life, take a deeper look at the celebration of All Hallow's Eve, its ancient Celtic origins and early Halloween celebrations and traditions, like sending Halloween-themed postcards.

About the Innovator

Toshiko Mori Interview Transcript
Architect

Throughout her career as a practicing architect and educator, Toshiko Mori has pursued a technical interest in the properties of materials, and especially synthetic materials, in addition to her concerns for purity of line, visual lightness and thermal performance.

Why She Innovates

As an architect, Toshiko Mori has always taken a personal delight in discovering new properties and potentials in materials. Whether designing exhibitions, houses or institutional projects such as the Visitor Center for Frank Lloyd Wright’s Darwin D. Martin House in Buffalo, New York, she enjoys a process that combines intuition with the rigor of research.

Toshiko Mori Interview Highlights Transcript

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I would say every architect that I know is a philosopher on his or her own.

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Members First: Engaging Experts - Hallowe’en in America

15 Jan, 10:04 AM
Halloween has not always been the night of ghoulish and garish decorations, candy and trick-or-treating we know today. Jim Johnson, Director of Greenfield Village and Curator of Historic Structures & Landscapes, along with Jeanine Head Miller, Curator of Domestic Life, take a deeper look at the celebration of All Hallow's Eve, its ancient Celtic origins and early Halloween celebrations and traditions, like sending Halloween-themed postcards.