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Surplice Bodice

In August I attended a Genteel Arts class on making a surplice bodice; this is a bodice that crosses over in the front. The class was held in New Oxford rather than Gettysburg in a class room space at Cross Keys Village. It was a nice space and we created quite a stir with some of the village residents with our sewing and showing off our corsets. And I failed […]

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ALHFAM 2017: Part 3, The Jello Museum and Genesee Country Village & Museum

Tuesday was tour day. My first stop was the Jell-O Museum in LeRoy, NY. It’s a small museum in an old school house behind the LeRoy Historical Society. It is cute with all sorts of Jell-O stuff.                 As the museum is maintained and organized by the Historical Society, the basement included a non-Jell-O exhibit on transportation with sleighs, wagons and buggies. After […]

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