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 From 2 to 5 p.m. on Saturday, June 28, there will be an opening reception for the summer exhibition, "From Thirteen to One: How Weathersfield's Schools Closed, Merged, and Morphed into One."
The summer exhibition at the Reverend Dan Foster House in Weathersfield Center traces the history of the 13 Weathersfield district schools through narrative, photographs, school objects, and student reports. The exhibit features a new mural, Weathersfield District Schools. This mural, the product of a Community History Partnership between the Weathersfield Schools and Historical Society and the Vermont Historical Society, is an original 6.5 foot by 8 foot painting by Weathersfield's own Canvasworks artist Lisa Curry Mair. Lisa worked with Ginger Wimberg's 4th grade class to come up with the design. In the fall, the mural will go on permanent display at the new Weathersfield School in Ascutney. In addition to the mural there is a replica of a late 19th - early 20th century classroom. There are reports by mid-19th-century superintendents, photographs, school books, and Weathersfield student work from the early 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries.
The Rev. Dan Foster House is the museum of the Weathersfield Historical Society. It is located on Weathersfield Center Road just across from the Weathersfield Center brick meeting house. Hours are Saturday, Sunday, Monday, and Wednesday afternoons, from 2 to 5 p.m. Appointments for visits at other times may be made by calling Ellen Clattenburg at 263-5505. For research in the library and archives, please make arrangements with archivist Cheryl Cox at 263-5584.
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Last Updated on Tuesday, 01 July 2008 20:29 |
