2009 Displays

One of the special displays this year is Native American ceremonial clothing.  Look carefully at the bead work on Sleeping Wolf's clothing and the papoose board.  We are grateful to Carolyn Norback for the loan of these items used by Carolyn and her husband.

As Benjamin Franklin said, "Certainty? In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes. "  We have proof -- this book is a record of Walpole's taxes from long ago.

 



The living room has been converted to Louisa May Alcott's living room on Christmas Eve where a play is in progress.  Notice the embroidery on the purple kimono worn by Louisa May.

 
The clothing exhibit focuses on various activites that took place in Walpole, e.g. the shirt factory, the saddle maker, and folks ready for a trip by train.  Note:  this room used to be the homeroom for all the Walpole High School classes and you can still see where the desks were attached to the floor.

The room used as the foreign language room when the Academy housed Walpole High School is now a permanent schoolroom.

Again this year we are grateful to Carol Christian, Dutchie Perron, and all the volunteers who devote many hours getting the exhibits ready.  Their work provides fresh new displays each year, and they are also cataloguing all our artifacts.

This year many of the exhibits are marked with red stars that indicate more information about the exhibit is included in the Historical Society's new book that will be available later this year.

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