The editor's officeused tobe occupied byfounderDewittWallace, who, along withhiswife, LilaAchesonWallace, launchedReader's Digestin 1922 with condensedarticles from otherpublications.
It was founded by DeWitt and Lila Wallace, both 32-year-old children of preachers.
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The research at Williamsburg over the decades has yielded more than 50 million fragments of items, a 500, 000-piece trove of collected items and a network of museums under Chief Curator Ronald Hurst's direction that includes the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum, the Wallace Museum and cafe, and the DeWittWallace Decorative Arts Museum.