Holiday Storytelling at the Peabody Leather Workers Museum

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Hours:	5-7pm
Ages:	Kids, Teens, Adults
In/Outdoor:	Indoor
Cost:	$ see below
Category:	Story Hours

Andrea Lovett presents an original fictional story, tailored to describe the holiday season around the turn of the century that will illuminate the life of Peabody leatherworkers and their families during this poignant era of Peabody’s history! Following the story, you are invited to come along for a special introduction of the new museum and its self-guided tour with the museum’s curator Merritt Kirkpatrick with a chance to meet and chat with Andrea personally! Light refreshments will be served.

Andrea Lovett has been professionally storytelling since 1992 around the country and around the world! Andrea enjoys New England History and has developed many of her own historical stories over the years. Andrea is the founder of the forum MASSMOUTH The Power of Story which provides a space for the living art of story telling in Massachusetts, and is also a past president of the New England League of Storytellers. Andrea has a wide array of experiences and knowledge to draw upon.

Peabody Leather Worker from peabodymuseum.orgIn the 19th and 20th centuries, Peabody, MA was referred to as 'The Leather Capital of the World.'Men, women and children worked in Peabody's many leather factories and businesses earning a decent wage in return for hard work. Peabody’s contributions to our material culture and the nation’s industrial evolution are found here. The Peabody Leatherworkers Museum honors the thousands of individuals who spent mornings before school, summers during college or lifelong careers laboring in leather. Come together and experience our shared history.
Explorers Free; Non-Explorers $15 Please RSVP.

Limited parking is available behind the museum, additional street parking is also available.

COST

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Explorers Free, Non explorers $15

WEBSITE

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www.essexheritage.org/explorers/index.shtml

LOCATION

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205 Washington Street, Peabody, MA, 01960 map
Phone: 987-740-0444

205 Washington Street
Peabody, MA 01960