New England Connection: Christine Lundberg was born in Pittsfield, Massachusetts where she lived for the first ten years of her life. Through never-before-seen archival materials, location footage and interviews with family, friends and scholars, this film reveals that Burton was a true Renaissance woman whose art and literature remain an enduring part of America’s cultural heritage. These handcrafted designs with motifs from nature rendered in bright colors were sold nationwide. Burton was also a talented textile designer and established a highly successful textile collective known as The Folly Cove Designers, in the Folly Cove area of Gloucester, Massachusetts.
For 70 years, her classic books, including the beloved Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel and the Caldecott Award-winning, The Little House, have engaged generations of readers young and old. Virginia Lee Burton-A Sense of Place explores the life and art of Virginia Lee Burton, considered to be one of the most significant children’s book author and illustrators of the 20th century.
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