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Our storage room has had water infiltration from a faulty air conditioning system. To abate the mold we have had to empty that room and move our collection to table tops in our museum and other display spaces. Most of the items were undamaged by water but everything was affected by mold growth resulting from the water. Conservators from the Intermuseum Conservation Association and our volunteers cleaned every item you see here and more by hand to eliminate mold. We expect the construction to be finished by mid-September and we will reopen the museum and archives shortly after that. Thank you and hope you will visit or volunteer with us.
To the person who contacted us about the Riley property and the Pond Lake area please call or re-email. The yahoo address does not work for me and the message keeps bouncing back. Thanks Come take a look at the display cases in the front hall of the Aurora Library. We’ve gathered just a small smidgen of our Geauga Lake and Sea World collection to we begin the summer season. The Aurora Historical Society is the largest collection of park memorabilia, artifacts, signs and documents and oral histories. When the parks existed, the opening day was often accompanied by large traffic jams and lines of cars up and down routes 43 and beyond. Aurora teenagers found steady employment and a lot of fun at the parks each year. For over a hundred years the activity at the parks had a important influence on the economic and culture of Aurora. We have a lot more in the storerooms and are always happy to get donations of memories or items to add to this collection. Stop by when ever the library is open and remember when the parks made Aurora a more interesting place to live. If you haven’t visited the Aurora Historical Society recently, then you’ll want to stop in soon. Our current exhibition is on textiles—hand-made doilies, table clothes, quilts, towels, pillow cases, and cloth. The examples come from the AHS’s artifacts’ collection and represent the work of local women, pieces handed down from generation to generation, and anonymous donors. The hand-made items showcase the beauty and talent possessed by people in the past and enabled them to have beautiful embellishments in utilitarian, everyday items. There are several items of key interest. One such beautiful item is a bedspread brought from China by Betty Lower. This bedcover is beige fabric with embroidered dragons and flowers in blues, oranges, beiges, and browns. Ric and Donna Mattmuller loaned many lovely family heirlooms such as Red Work Squares made by Donna’s Mother and Aunt in 1917 and a 100 year old Crazy Quilt, originally owned by Ric’s Mother. Other items that you won’t want to miss are Red Work pillow cases, a table cloth with pink daisies, blue links, & white roses embroidered on it, a variety of quilts, and many hand-made doilies. A prized part of the exhibit is the hand-made stair runner that Lois Harmon made and installed in her home at 619 Bartlett Road. Mrs. Harmon made this rug in six weeks. She designed and hand-hooked the runner herself in the fall of 1962, in time for its viewing at a Christmas party for friends and family. Inspiration for the runner came from a magazine, “I happened to see a picture of stair treads in a Woman’s Day magazine….[the rug in the article had] cups and saucers, things like that. I got thinking about it and decided to design my own pictures, about the family. Instead of treads with no pattern at all, just different colors of materials…” (Read entire newspaper article for more information -linked below-.)
The Textiles Exhibition will be up until the middle of May, 2010. The museum is open to the public every Tuesday and Wednesday from 2-4 pm or by appointment on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. Group tours are always welcome.If you haven’t visited the Aurora Historical Society recently, then you’ll want to stop in soon. Our current exhibition is on textiles—hand-made doilies, table clothes, quilts, towels, pillow cases, and cloth. The examples come from the AHS’s artifacts’ collection and represent the work of local women, pieces handed down from generation to generation, and anonymous donors. The hand-made items showcase the beauty and talent possessed by people in the past and enabled them to have beautiful embellishments in utilitarian, everyday items. There are several items of key interest. One such beautiful item is a bedspread brought from China by Betty Lower. This bedcover is beige fabric with embroidered dragons and flowers in blues, oranges, beiges, and browns. Ric and Donna Mattmuller loaned many lovely family heirlooms such as Red Work Squares made by Donna’s Mother and Aunt in 1917 and a 100 year old Crazy Quilt, originally owned by Ric’s Mother. Other items that you won’t want to miss are Red Work pillow cases, a table cloth with pink daisies, blue links, & white roses embroidered on it, a variety of quilts, and many hand-made doilies. A prized part of the exhibit is the hand-made stair runner that Lois Harmon made and installed in her home at 619 Bartlett Road. Mrs. Harmon made this rug in six weeks. She designed and hand-hooked the runner herself in the fall of 1962, in time for its viewing at a Christmas party for friends and family. Inspiration for the runner came from a magazine, “I happened to see a picture of stair treads in a Woman’s Day magazine….[the rug in the article had] cups and saucers, things like that. I got thinking about it and decided to design my own pictures, about the family. Instead of treads with no pattern at all, just different colors of materials…” (Read entire newspaper article for more information -linked below-.)
The Textiles Exhibition will be up until the middle of May, 2010. The museum is open to the public every Tuesday and Wednesday from 2-4 pm or by appointment on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. Group tours are always welcome.This is the first page of the new redesign of the site. The photos above will fill the page horizontally and there will be more color and more information. I need to set up a basic structure first and then add bells and whistles. This is designed using wordpress which should give us flexibility for contributing and updating as well as a lot of other features like photo galleries, and more. |
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