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August 2024

Mrs. Day’s Ideal Baby Shoe Company

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Updated Exhibit is open Monday, Wednesday and Friday beginning August 16, 10am to noon at Tapley Memorial Hall, 13 Page Street. Additional artifacts and information has been added to last winter’s exhibit. Did you wear Ideal Baby Shoes? Did you know someone who worked for Ideal? Did you live in…

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General Gage is in the House!

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Sunday, August 11th, 1:30pm, Tapley Memorial Hall Summer 1774. The Port of Boston has been closed.  The countryside is rising up, there is talk of raising minute companies alongside the regular militia, and British soldiers are appearing in Danvers. General Thomas Gage, newly appointed Royal Governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony…

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