{"412251":{"#nid":"412251","#data":{"type":"news","title":"IPST Museum of Papermaking Receives Award from Gomez Mill House","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EDuring the month of October IPST museum director Teri Williams traveled to Saint Louis where she attended the annual meeting of the Friends of Dard Hunter, and then to New York where she participated in the gala event organized to celebrate the 300th anniversary of the Gomez Mill House.\u0026nbsp; Williams accepted the organization\u2019s Pioneer Award on behalf of the museum.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBoth organizations maintain long standing and significant relationships with the museum and are connected to the museum\u2019s founder, Dard Hunter. Since 1981, the Friends \u201chas been connecting and educating papermakers in America and all over the world\u201d and as part of their mission, they support the Dard Hunter collection of the Robert C. Williams Papermaking Museum.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBuilt in 1714, the Gomez Mill House is located north of New York City and sits on Jew\u2019s Creek, a tributary of the Hudson River. It stands as the oldest Jewish residence in North\u0026nbsp;America. During the Revolutionary War, it served as prominent center of patriotic activity. From 1912 to 1919, it belonged to Dard Hunter who, just prior World War I, built a paper mill on Jew\u0027s Creek. Students from all over the world came to learn from him as he made\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gomez.org\/papermaking.html\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Epaper by hand\u003C\/a\u003E, cut and cast type, and hand-printed his own books. The\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gomez.org\/Foundation.html\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EGomez Foundation for Mill House\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;restored Hunter\u0027s Mill and the mill dam and bridge in 1997.\u0026nbsp; In 2010 the mill underwent a second major restoration. Dard Hunter figures prominently in the lore and history of this historic treasure.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Williams accepts Pioneer Award on behalf of the Papermaking Museum"}],"uid":"27178","created_gmt":"2015-06-09 09:32:32","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:18:33","author":"Amna Jamshad","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2013-06-01T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2013-06-01T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"412231":{"id":"412231","type":"image","title":"Gomez Mill House","body":null,"created":"1449254211","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 18:36:51","changed":"1475895142","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:52:22","alt":"Gomez Mill House","file":{"fid":"202335","name":"131209_dard.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/131209_dard_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/131209_dard_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":42309,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/131209_dard_0.jpg?itok=IeQJoTIH"}}},"media_ids":["412231"],"groups":[{"id":"372221","name":"Renewable Bioproducts Institute (RBI)"}],"categories":[{"id":"42921","name":"Exhibitions"},{"id":"133","name":"Special Events and Guest Speakers"}],"keywords":[{"id":"101","name":"Award"},{"id":"3176","name":"house"},{"id":"4754","name":"IPST"},{"id":"9133","name":"papermaking"},{"id":"93811","name":"RBI"},{"id":"4174","name":"renewable"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39501","name":"People and Technology"},{"id":"39491","name":"Renewable Bioproducts"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EKelly B. Smith, Marketing \u0026amp; Communication\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["kelly.smith@ipst.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}