I’m not gonna lie: “Treasures Revealed” is not the most exciting, inspiring or profound exhibit the Westport Historical Society has ever mounted.
Still, if you’re downtown with 20 minutes to kill, it’s worth a visit.
Basically, the WHS is displaying stuff they found in their archives and various properties. It’s an eclectic assortment, ranging from clothes to old cameras and spectacles to — well, the kind of things everyone has in their basement, closets and attic.
Among the most interesting:
Stevan Dohanos’ painting of the Westport Historical Society’s Bradley-Wheeler House itself. I’m including this not only because of the great colors and back-in-the-day snow, but because it’s so guilelessly self-referential.
I love these photos of turn-of-the-(20th)-century elementary school classes. The top one has 21 students — right around the current Board of Education-policy size. The bottom has 37 — with 1 teacher.
I can only imagine how loudly their parents howled.
The exhibit includes a number of board games, puzzles, and these play blocks. I wonder: If I were a 2-year-old today, would I rather play with these or an iPad?
I loved this empty milk bottle — waiting for the milkman to take it away, replaced by a fresh one.
The only thing better would be if it was Clover Farms.
Milk boxes! Had forgotten about those…..
Would love to be able to see a larger image of the picture, but not sure how to do it.
Hover your mouse over it, and/or click on it. It all depends on the browser you’re using (if it works at all).
To be fair, that doesn’t usually make it larger. It just isolates the picture on a new page (or new window).
But then you drag the corners out to enlarge :<)
Coincidentally, I just saw Stevan Dohano’s painting of the men on the telephone wire listening to the World Series at the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown.
I loved the exhibit, and thought its treasures a far cry from what I might find in MY closets, attic or basement.
A poem for Dan…
“Treasures Revealed” from a basement
Is not worthy of any abasement
It’s worth a long look
for the long work it took
perhaps we need a re-phrasement?
WHS fan (& Oral History Committee member)