Wrentham Historical Society

Mel Simon is coming to bring us joy and happiness.  Don't miss this.  Mel is the consummate star.   It will definitely be fun..  

Judy Bernstein in the persona of Eleanor will present the inspiring story of one of America's most beloved first ladies.  This is a new docu-drama based on the private papers of Eleanor Roosevelt.   

David Wood, Curator of the Concord Museum, will present the story of clock making in Concord's Milldam which produced grandfather and banjo clocks.  Reference will be made to Wrentham's own clockmakers - father and son, James Perrigo.

Michael Tougias, author of 15 books on New England's history and natural history, wrote "Until I Have No Country" and co-authored the best-selling "King Philip's War".

Anthony Sammarco, well known historian and author of 37 books on Boston and surrounding areas, will present the story of  S. S. Pierce and Company (pronounced "purse"), founded in 1831 - a venerable institution known throughout the U.S. for its gourmet foodstuffs and liquors.

Michael and Nancy Coyle, of  Coyle's Auction Gallery of South Bellingham, will give appraisals of your treasures.  If you have a treasure which is too big to bring, a photograph will suffice.  They will also give guidance on obtaining a personal property appraisal report.

Diane Rapaport, writer and historian, is presently researching what happened in 1652 when Captain John Greene anchored his ship, the "John and Sara", in Boston Harbor.  On board were 272 Scots prisoners from the battle of Worcester where Oliver Cromwell's parliamentary forces had crushed the royalist army of young Charles II and ended the civil war.  What happened to them and where they went is the basis of the story.  William McCane of Wrentham was one of these prisoners.

Randall L. Holton  is the preeminent scholar of American sandpaper paintings, popular from 1840 to the 1860s, but overlooked in the study of our nation's folk art.  A sandpaper painting is a drawing in charcoal or pastel on a board coated with marble dust.  They were produced by the thousands and were meant to imitate popular engravings of the day.