Staff
Donald Muller, Executive Director
Chris Bailey, Curator
Mary Jane Dapkus, Assistant Curator*
Colleen Nicastro, Director of Interpretation
Jill Godbout, Office Coordinator
Joan Brown, Receptionist
Barbara Cerrina, Receptionist
Judy Chatfield, Receptionist
Rose Quilty, Receptionist
Michelle Milczanowski is working on a contract basis on the Annual Fund
*Assistant Curator
ACWM is pleased to have received a Heritage Advancement Grant from the Greater Hartford Arts Council and the Connecticut Humanities Council to hire Mary Jane Dapkus as Assistant Curator. She will be working with our Curator, Chris Bailey, until his retirement in early 2010. Mary Jane has an M.A. in American Studies, Museums and Communities from Trinity College where her thesis was on “Middletown and Berlin, CT Wooden Movement Shelf Clock Makers.” She is a member of the NAWCC Research Committee and a contributor to the NAWCC Bulletin and The Cog Counters Journal.. For several years Mary Jane has been using records from civil and criminal courts at the CT State Library and in local communities to provide additional insight into the clock making industry in CT.
The following individuals are volunteers at the museum as group tour guides, daily tour guides or building & grounds workers:
Bob Barnett, Joan Brown, Mel Brown, Dick Carlson, Diane Carter, Jacques Comeau, Paul D’Aprile, Gail Dunnrowicz, Dick Gavett, Tom Grimshaw, Jean Haines, Richard Huck, Ron Jones, Henrietta Kablick, Ann Kolsun, Regi Kowalski, Bob Lagasse, Tom Manning, John Morse, Sal Palmieri, Dave Powell, Jeannine Provenzano, Shirley Reynolds, Joseph Skelskey, Perry Spinelli, Carmel Sullivan and Austin Tedesco. Members of the Bristol Garden Club under the leadership of Lennie Strauss plant and tend the sundial garden behind the Lewis House.
