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Vol. 30 No. 18
APRIl 29 - MAY 5, 2021
S.C. Museum reopens BY GEoRGE WAllACE newsroom@liherald.com
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thE ExtENDED GluECkStEIN family — from left, Fred and Eileen Glueckstein, and Deb, Drew, Jason and Max Wachtler — went to see the Eric Kamp exhibit at the Sea Cliff Village Museum. Fred Glueckstein is the late Eric Kamp’s brother-in-law.
It has been a long, hard road for the Sea Cliff Museum during the past year. Shut down virtually overnight in March 2020 when the Covid pandemic struck, the museu m has bee n unable to fulfill one of its major functions in the community — welcoming visitors to interpretive displays and exhibitions detailing facets of local history. But the museum staff has not spent the year idly. The facility has a new executive director, fresh faces on the board of trustees and “a vision of incorporating
Friends of the Museum as a fundraising arm,” former Mayor Edward Lieberman said. Add to that opening up on Wednesdays and Saturdays, and a new entryway through the centennial garden, and the museum has made significant progress. Also, according to Director Courtney Chambers, the staff has been busy with a major project to digitize its archival collection, a major undertaking that began in December and is likely to continue for a year or more. “With grant money and t h e h e l p o f vo l u n t e e r docents and high school students, we’re going from Continued on page 14
Salt House brings life to vacant Sea Cliff storefront BY JIll NoSSA jnossa@liherald.com
Sea Cliff is known as a haven for artists, from painters to musicians to designers, and that artistry also extends to a creative use of space, as evident in an April 16 pop-up shop on Sea Cliff Avenue. For one day, the former G&H Auto Repair shop, one of the oldest buildings in the village, was transformed into a beach-style bohemian boutique by designer Lauren Healy. Healy, of Sea Cliff, founded her online company, Salt House, last August, and wanted to bring a hands-on shopping experience
to her steadily growing customer base. This was her second popup store since the business was created, and she said it was a good way to connect with customers while also getting her name out there. “It was a pretty steady stream of customers all day long,” Healy said. “It was the perfect amount where I could chat with people, and I felt like I was able to help the customers the way I wanted to and still check everybody out.” She opened Salt House from 11 a.m. until 7:30 p.m. on April 16, and the one-day event, she said, took two full days to set up,
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followed by hours of breaking it down. It was worth it, she said, to have the experience of an instore boutique owner for the day. “It’s so hard with Covid,” she said. “I haven’t really connected with anyone in person, so put-
ting faces to names was nice.” Before the pandemic, Healy, 43, worked as a freelance creative director in commercial advertising, but her schedule, she said, was too chaotic and unpredictable when her two sons, ages 8 and 6, were home from school last spring. So, she decided to try something different.
“I’ve always liked making things, and always made things for myself,” she said. “It wasn’t like I had a big master plan or had been planning this for years; it just kind of happened. Maybe the pandemic was the catalyst for that.” Healy started Salt House by Continued on page 3