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Month: November 2018
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Rediscovering Vintage Entertainment: The 1955 Admiral Super Cascade TV
As we near the month of December, you may be escaping the season’s chill by curling up on the couch with a blanket and indulging in some television. This Admiral television was built circa 1955 and can be found on the third floor of the Heritage Museum. Dubbed the Super Cascade, it has multiple functions…
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Bairnsfather Ware: A Commemorative Plate of WWI
This so-called Bairnsfather Ware is a commemorative plate of WWI that was on display in the cottage of Elton and Carrie Merner at Ma-Me-O Beach. It depicts a cartoon of soldier getting a hair cut in the trenches as a shell goes buzzing past. It is titled ‘COIFFURE IN THE TRENCHES’ and captioned “KEEP YER…
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Commemorating 100 Years: World War I Artifacts on Display
This November, to commemorate the 100th Anniversary of the Armistice of 1918 on November 11th, we will be sharing objects from World War I that are on display in the War Years Remembered Exhibit on the second floor of the Heritage Museum. The unfinished cotton pillowcase pictured here is an example of efforts on the…