1940Virginia Lee Burton and her students held their first art exhibition in the Demetrios barn.People and Communities, Arts and Culture, Notable People, Art

Gloucester Daily Times. “Folly Cove Design Pupils Holding Display of Work.” July 15, 1940. https://sawyer.advantage-preservation.com/
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Items included bedspreads, table cloths, handkerchiefs, kerchiefs, scarfs, draperies, and dresses, The work was widely noticed, including by the Addison Gallery of American Art.

Goodwin, Deborah L., Folly Cove Designers: Designer-Craftsmen 1938-1969; Folly Cove Designers: A Retrospective, Cape Ann Historical Association, Exhibition Catalogue, 1982. The Folly Cove Designers Collection, Cape Ann Museum Library & Archives, Gloucester, MA.
Photo of Folly Cove Barn. the Folly Cove Designers Collection, Box 1, Folder 1, Cape Ann Museum Library & Archives, Gloucester, MA.
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