Friday, 22nd August 2008 (555 views)

A new exhibition looking at the four seasons of American culture has begun at the Concord Museum, Massachusetts, reports the Boston Globe.

On display are artefacts covering three centuries of American history as part of the Seasonings collection.

For the Autumn section of the exhibition, a 1827 engraved gold medal from the Lafayette Female Academy is on show.

David Wood, the curator of the Concord Museum, suggested the medal may have been presented as a reward for a school pupil for success in rhetoric.

Other items on show include wooden sleds for winter, a women's bicycle-riding outfit for summer and a collection of arrowheads representing spring.

The Seasonings collection will continue until September 14th.

Visitors to the museum can expect to see the history of Concord gathered in one place, including areas devoted to "Algonkians, puritans, Revolutionaries, Loyalists, farmers, silversmiths, transcendentalists, cabinetmakers, anti-slavery activists, mill-workers".

Algonkians is the general anthropological term given to Native Americans in the area and includes numerous tribes.

 

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