This year's Museum Open House on Sunday, October 8, 2-4:00 p.m., features a dramatic reading of excerpts from the 1907 childhood diaries of sisters Lucy and Hazel Grover.
The program also includes a gallery talk about the new museum exhibit "Childhood in Middletown Springs, 1850-1920".
Young actors Anya Brostek of Shoreham, and Ellie Ruck of Middletown Springs, will read the parts of Lucy and Hazel, respectively. Their performance is under the direction of Melissa Chesnut-Tangerman, a partner in the Theater in the Woods summer camp in Middletown Springs.
On January 1, 1907, Lucy Grover (14) and her sister Hazel (10) began diaries in identical composition books. Though it is not known why they started simultaneous diaries or why they both stopped writing on May 14, 1907, their journals give humorous and poignant insight into Vermont farm family life at the beginning of the 20th century.
They lived with their parents, Will and Katie Grover, on the family farm in West Tinmouth, about four miles south of the village of Middletown Springs. Their diaries document children's chores, education, and play —themes that run through the exhibit in the Historical Society museum.
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