by Westborough Center | Sep 20, 2024 | Museums, The Kiosk
Westborough Chronotype – December 1, 1855, p. 4 Patent Medicines in Westborough When I was young, I became interested in patent medicines and medicine shows from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries for a variety of reasons—one of which was finding in my local...
by Westborough Center | Aug 16, 2024 | Museums, The Kiosk
Special Edition: Westborough Center Updates This summer has been busy in the Westborough Center with lots of big projects coming together all at once. Many of these developments will improve access to Westborough’s deep historical collections and will ensure that they...
by Westborough Center | May 17, 2024 | Museums, The Kiosk
An ad from an 1877 Westborough Directory for blacksmith services. Westborough’s Blacksmiths As a child, when my parents would take our family to craft fairs to sell their creations, I was given the freedom to wander among the various vendors on my own. Inevitably, I...
by Westborough Center | Apr 19, 2024 | Museums, The Kiosk
House Raising by William P. Chappel, 1870s (Metropolitan Art Museum: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/10453) Raising Parties in Colonial Westborough Craft is a social act. We first learn a craft from people who are proficient at it, and as time goes on...
by Westborough Center | Mar 15, 2024 | Museums, The Kiosk
National Straw Works – Sewing Hall, ca. 1885 Let’s Consider Craft in Westborough I hear America singing, the varied carols I hear, Those of mechanics, each one singing his as it should be blithe and strong, The carpenter singing his as he measures his plank or beam,...
