55th Annual Delaware Show

artifacts in the country. Recognizing the importance of this collection as a national treasure, Winterthur is currently planning the reinstallation of the Dominy Gallery with improved lighting, new displays, and digital media designed to enable deeper exploration of the artifacts and documents. The Dominy family arrived in East Hampton probably around 1669, twenty years after settlers from Lynn, Massachusetts, founded the town. Listed in property deeds as a carpenter and surveyor, Nathaniel III (1714−1778) established the Dominy woodworking tradition and probably trained his son, Nathaniel IV. In addition to general carpentry and cabinetmaking, Nathaniel IVmade clocks and repaired watches. Fig. 2. The Dominy house, 1940, photographed by the Historic American Building Survey. The woodworking shop is on the right. Courtesy Library of Congress Fig. 3. The Dominy Gallery at Winterthur. — 116 —