FAIRFIELD — Lawrence Eyre has been selected to be the new interim director of the Carnegie Historical Museum.
The museum’s board of directors met in January and unanimously voted to make Eyre interim director for at least one year. Eyre assumes the role previously held by Mark Shafer, the museum’s director and visionary who died on Dec. 17, 2022. Jake Schmidt will continue in his role as the museum’s full-time curator and assistant director.
Dave Neff, president of the Carnegie Historical Museum Board of Directors, said Eyre has been a member of the board the past two years, and that the board is pleased to select him for this new role.
“Lawrence has a deep interest and is willing to share his collective knowledge on our various projects and has a vision for the future of our museum,” Neff said. “Our museum needs an individual to be the leader for our day-to-day operations.”
Eyre’s role as interim director is part-time. When he’s not at the museum, he’s teaching American history and world history at Maharishi School in Fairfield, where he’s also the girls’ tennis coach. Eyre has a degree in American Studies from Yale, and for the past six years he’s been research director for Dick DeAngelis’s Fairfield History Series, a documentary series covering different parts of Fairfield and Jefferson County’s history. DeAngelis will release the fifth film in the series later this year, and plans to do eight in all.
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