This is a Halloween card from the late 50s/early 60s manufactured by Rust Craft Greeting Card Company which operated in Dedham from 1955-1981. I love the mid-century graphics and colors; reminds me of the Fractured Fairytales cartoons I used to watch. The later versions of their cards from the 70s-80s were, in my opinion, bland and uninteresting.
We can’t promise a Learned Elephant as Moses Gragg did in 1822, but you will find the best local craft beer, wine, distilled spirits, pub food and music at the annual TAVERN NIGHT at the Dedham Museum and Archive. This FRIDAY, October 18, from 7:00-9:00.
Breweries include Castle Island (Norwood), Jack’s Abby (Framingham), Lost Shoe Brewing and Roasting Company (Marlborough), Roundhead (Hyde Park), Wormtown (Foxboro & Worcester), non-alcoholic options, and more!
Spirits and Wine from Privateer Rum, M.S. Walker, and Total Wine & More.
Music by the Zip Finn Band. This event takes place at the Dedham Museum, 612 High Street, which is right around the corner from Moses Gragg’s Tavern, which still stands on Court Street! Get your tickets here:
https://www.dedhammuseum.org/programs-events/special-events/: Dedham Museum Tavern Night- This Friday!
The Dedham Museum and Archive is hosting its annual Tavern Night this coming Friday, October 18, from 7:00-9:00 at the Museum, 612 High Street. The event features craft beer, wine, locally distilled spirits and pub food. Music provided by the Zip Finn Band. Don’t miss your chance to enjoy a great evening out at a unique and historic venue! Gentlemen AND ladies can certainly depend upon being well and reasonably entertained and accommodated! Here’s a link to buy tickets and get more information:
https://www.dedhammuseum.org/programs-events/special-events/: Dedham Tavern Night: A Must-Attend EventCome to the Haunted Walking Tour sponsored by the Dedham Museum and Archive-October 19 and 26. This 50 minute tour features a script written by yours truly and features the best stories and legends from Shiretown’s haunted past!
Click this link for tickets:
https://www.dedhammuseum.org/programs-events/special-events/
Here’s a sample story from the tour!
Ames Family Tomb (now covered)
Ames was a prominenent Dedham citizen and renowned almanac publisher who died in 1764. In the fall of 1775, during the siege of Boston, a young Colonial Army lieutenant named Jabez Fitch visited the grave on one of his many excursions into graveyards and tombs in the Boston area. The following diary entry describing Fitch’s visit should help get you in the Halloween mood:
About 12 O’clock…went into the burying yard, where we found Doctor Ames’ tomb open … We several of us went down into the tomb, opened the old doctor’s coffin and see his corpse. The under jaw was all fallen in, the other part of the bone of the head retained their proper shape, the teeth were whole in the upper jaw, but the whole back and rest of the body, as far as we could see, was covered with a black film or skin, which I suppose to be the winding sheet in which the corpse was buried, being blended with the moisture of the body.
I also observed one of the arms to have fallen off from the body and the bones laying by the side of the coffin. While I was thus in a sort conversing with the dead and viewing those melancholy curiosities, I could not help reflecting that nothing of the philosophy and astronomy which once adorned the mind of that person and made him appear great among his contemporaries, was now to be seen in this state of humiliation and contempt… After sufficiently gratifying our curiosity, we moved on…
Dedham Tales 