CAN YOU HELP THE SOCIETY'S EDUCATION COMMITTEE?

Last year's restructured Third Grade History Week program for all of the Danvers Public School third graders was quite the hit with the kids and their teachers.  

Trustee Sheila Cooke-Kayser's Education Committee ask the third graders to bring in their favorite toys a few weeks before the program.  When the students arrived for the program they found not only their toys but the toy's equivalent from 50 to 150 years ago from the Society's extensive collections.  

Culture shock, amazement and unbounded (unleashed) curiosity!

Alas, the toys from the collection are all part of the cataloged collection and can't be used or touched.

So, if you have any of the following that you could donate to the Society so the children can not only look at but also touch and use, please drop them off at the Page House (M-F, 9 to 1, 11 Page St, Danvers) or call the office at 978-777-1666:

Portable Manual typewriter

Rotary Dial Telephone

Adding Machine

Portable Record Player

Monopoly, Candyland or Risk Board Games

Barbie Doll (prior to 1980) and any Barbie doll accessories

Star War toys (prior to 2000)

Space Toy Rockets

Toys representing the following icons: Superman, Wonder Woman, Mickey Mouse, Flash Gordon, Roy Rogers, Davy Crockett, Captain Kangeroo, Howdy Doody or Shirley Temple.

Football prior to 1970

Sesame Street Puppets

Metal Toy Cars or Trucks

Hope you can join, through your donation, in helping the Society make history even more alive for the third graders!!

 

 

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

From all of us at the Danvers Historical Society best wishes for a Healthy, Happy and Prosperous New Year.

 2014 is going to be a banner year for the Danvers Historical Society as we 

-- continue, after kicking off the celebration with a spectacular December Designer Holiday Show House at the Endicott Mansion,  to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the saving of Glen Magna Farms from demolition....

 -- celebrate the 125th anniversary of the founding of the Society in 1889

 -- celebrate the 100th anniversary of the saving from demolition the Society's Headquarters, the richly historical 1754  Page House, and

-- celebrate the 200th anniversary of the purchase of the then Ingersoll Farm by Salem Maritime Merchant and millionaire, Joseph Peabody, as a refuge for his family and goods from the feared attack on Salem by the British Fleet off of Marblehead in 1814.  More about this later.....