Bandy Heritage Center to open new exhibit on Lenna Gertrude Judd
September 21, 2016
On Wednesday, September 28, 2016 the Bandy Heritage Center will open its new exhibit Dalton and the World: The Odyssey of Lenna Gertrude Judd at the Old Dalton Freight Depot Gallery located at 305 Depot Street in Dalton.
Community leader, world traveler, and horticultural expert are only a few of the titles used to describe Lenna Gertrude Judd. In 1903, while on a bicycle tour of the South, Lenna Judd and her husband Morton, heir to a family fortune generated from the brass manufacturing industry in Connecticut, stopped to rest in Dalton. Finding the climate beneficial to Morton’s health and charmed by the mountains and valleys of Northwest Georgia, the Judds chose to move from New York and make Dalton their permanent home. After purchasing 150 acres of land on the edge of town and building a two-story Colonial frame house, Morton, Lenna, and their son Hubert immersed themselves into the life of their new community. Through the use of her family’s personal photographs, documents and objects this exhibit traces the remarkable life and travels of a family of privilege in the early years of the twentieth century.
The exhibit is free and open to the public Monday through Saturday from 9:00am to 5pm. For more information on this exhibit or other Bandy Center programs contact project director Brian Hilliard at bhilliar@daltonstate.edu or 706-272-4452