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 Canton Historical Museum. Photo: dotCANTON The Canton Historical Museum, 11 Front St. in Collinsville, is holding its annual tag sale on Saturday, May 21.
The sale, which benefits the museum, will feature collectibles, furniture and artwork, in addition to excess items from the museum’s collections.
A donation of $10 will get you a 9 a.m., early-bird entry into the sale on Saturday. The doors open to all at 10 a.m. with a donation of $1.
For additional information, call 860-693-2793, or visit the museum’s website by clicking on the link in the left-hand column of this page under “Go-To Websites.”
 Canton Historical Museum. Photo: dotCANTON The Canton Historical Museum, 11 Front St. in Collinsville, has announced that its annual tag sale will be held on Saturday, May 21.
The sale, which benefits the museum, will feature collectibles, furniture and artwork, in addition to excess items from the museum’s collections.
Items you might like to donate to the sale can be dropped off at the museum during normal open hours.
A donation of $10 will get you a 9 a.m., early-bird entry into the sale on May 21. The doors open to all at 10 a.m. with a donation of $1.
For additional information, call 860-693-2793, or visit the museum’s website by clicking on the link in the lefthand column of this page under “Go-To Websites.”
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 An assortment of arrows, spearheads and stone tools used by Native Americans in this area have been donated to the Canton Historical Museum. Photos: dotCANTON By Steve Wilder dotCANTON.com
David Gilchrist says his father-in-law, a resident of Avon, looked for American Indian artifacts almost all his life, beginning when he was a young boy early in the 20th century.
According to Gilchrist, a Canton selectman in his third term, George Plude would search plowed fields and the banks of the Farmington River in Avon, Simsbury and Farmington, particularly  after rain scrubbed the ground and made the rock and stone items more visible to a trained eye.
Plude put together a handsome collection over the years, and at 2 p.m. on Sunday, Dec. 19, the Canton Historical Museum will formally accept 300-plus artifacts from Gilchrist in memory of his wife, Marie Plude Gilchrist, who died in November 2009.
“We talked about it quite a bit before she passed away,” Gilchrist said. “She wanted the collection to be kept together and put in a place where it could be enjoyed by many people.”
According to the museum, the artifacts collected by Plude were evaluated over the past several months by Lisa Marie Evans, a grad student in anthropology and archaeology at Central Connecticut State University and found to be up to 10,000 years old. Many of the arrows and spearheads come from as far away as Ohio, according to the museum. Gilchrist said that’s probably the result of a series of trades among groups of Indians.
“(Evans) found arrowheads made of material not indigenous to this area,” Gilchrist said. As an example, he said some arrowheads were made of flint, and that the nearest deposits of flint were in Ohio.
The museum says the Gilchrist donation doubles the size of its collection. Five years ago the museum received a similar donation from the Dyer family in Canton.
 Canton Historical Museum. Photo: dotCANTON The Canton Historical Museum’s annual winter lecture series is back. The 2 p.m. Sunday lectures will all be held at the Canton Community Center, 40 Dyer Ave.
The dates:
Jan. 16, The Shakers: Inventors and Entrepreneurs by Dr. M. Stephen Miller of West Hartford. Miller has researched and written about the United Society of Believers (the Shakers) for more than three decades.
Jan. 30, A Yankee Clock Peddling Venture In The Tucky-Ho: With Canton Connections by Mary Jane Dapkus, researcher and historian from Middletown.
Feb. 20, Iron Mining And Smelting In Connecticut by John Pawloski, president of the Connecticut Antique Machinery Association and director of the Connecticut Museum of Mining and Mineral Science, both in Kent.
March 6, Geologic History Of Connecticut by Michael Wizevich, assistant professor of physics and earth science, Central Connecticut State University.
 Maggie Schofield, left, and Lin Erickson, both of Canton, prepare to learn the identity of another winner in the Gallery of Trees drawings on Sunday, Dec. 12, at the Canton Historical Museum. Winners were being picked and notified by phone for the 43 trees that have been on display since last month in the museum's second annual fund-raiser. The museum gift shop and the Christmas boutique will continue to be open seven days a week through Dec. 24 -- from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday-Friday, and from 1 to 4 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday, when museum tours will be available. The museum returns to normal hours after Christmas. Photo: dotCANTON
 "A Harry Potter Christmas" / Canton Public Library. Photos: dotCANTON (Updated To Adjust Times On Monday, Nov. 22)
An “Opening Night Gala” on Saturday, Nov. 20, capped off Day 1 of the Canton Historical Museum’s Gallery of Trees.
More than 40 artificial trees of varying sizes and with a variety of themes are on display throughout the museum, according to event organizer Marge Harmon, an increase of more than a dozen trees over last year’s inaugural “Gallery.”
Visitors can participate in a fund-raising drawing for trees of their choosing. Winners will be determined in a “Tea Cup Auction” at 4:15 p.m. on Dec. 12. All proceeds will benefit the museum’s building fund.
With the exception of Thanksgiving Day, when the museum will be closed, the Gallery of Trees will be open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. daily through Sunday, Dec. 12. It also will be open on the evening of Friday, Dec. 10.
For a closeup look at several other trees on display until Sunday, Dec. 12, at the Canton Historical Museum, click on any of the 12 images in the gallery below and use the arrow left or arrow right button at the bottom of the larger image that pops up. To return to this page, click on the full image you are viewing.
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 The Canton Historical Museum is all dressed up and ready for the Gallery of Trees' opening night gala Saturday night, Nov. 20, from 7 to 9:30 p.m. Photo: dotCANTON
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