New Exhibit: A few of my favorite things

The things in the exhibit case, June 2012
The things in the exhibit case, June 2012

Instead of the photographs and documents usually on display in the Local History exhibit case, this month we’ve got a bunch of things, or more formally, artifacts, relics, realia.

What kind of things are these, you might ask?  If Julie Andrews were here, she’d sing it like this…

A box full of shoe tacks, a piece of bog iron
A stereoviewer, a cat’s paw for prying
A hammer for caulking, a key on a string
These are a few of my favorite things

Well, okay, maybe not.