Sudbury Historical Society Exhibition: The Fabric of Life in Sudbury

Join the SHS on Sunday, November 10 from 2:00 to 4:00 p.m. at the Town Hall, 322 Concord Road, where the public is invited to see, touch and experience Sudbury’s past as the Historical Society opens its collections to recall the Fabric of Life in Sudbury.

In the upper Town Hall a self-guided tour will begin with a
replica of a Native American wetu (hut). If nimble and small, a visitor might
enjoy crawling into the wetu for a minute. Older visitors may peruse a case of
stone projectile points and handle a piece of deerskin. Then, visitors may walk
through a doorway and see an architect’s replica of the Town’s second
meetinghouse as it stood in what is now Wayland. A bit farther on, a scabbard
from King Philip’s War in 1676 may bring forth a shudder.

Next, visitors will meander past reminders of colonial days and the domestic arts. There will be a basket of real flax. (You will know
exactly what it means to have “flaxen” hair). Nearby will be some
linsey-woolsey cloth and some lovely quilts. Beware; you may have to push your
way through sheets “drying” on the line before you come through a door to see
the plow and old farm tools.  It is then
just a step to a powder horn and a five-foot long gun just like a minuteman
used in the Revolution. On display will be the Ezekiel Howe’s written
commission to be a colonel in the militia, and a six-foot diorama of the Minute
and Militia fighting in Concord along Battle Road.



An exhibit about Sudbury wouldn’t be complete without things connected with school, so children will be able to sit in old-fashioned school
desks. Adults may search for familiar faces in the old class photos. Then
visitors will pass a Victorian “post office” and go out the door past photos of
Babe Ruth.




The tour takes approximately half an hour. Many more items
from the SHS collections are on display. After the tour visitors are invited to
enjoy refreshments served in the lower Town Hall meeting room.




The Sudbury Historical Society is a nonprofit organization
dedicated to bringing the rich history of the Sudbury Plantation and its
evolution into the lives and activities of the community. For questions about
the SHS or the exhibition, please call 978/443-3747.