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Over the River and Through the Wood: An Uncommonly Cold Season

Thom Roach, Neighbor

Hours: Monday through Friday from 10am to 3pm; Saturday from 12 to 3pm. Admission: Free

The year 1816 was known as "The Year Without a Summer" and "Eighteen-Hundred-and-Froze-to-Death". It was the year that Christopher Gore installed one of the first central heating systems in America in his home in Waltham.  Featuring a recently restored sleigh along with period winter clothing and the farm journal of Jacob Farwell, this exhibit describes a few of the ways people coped with extreme winter conditions in the early 19th century.


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