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Oddities, Necessaries, and New-Fangled Contraptions In-Person
This evening, Janet Parnes will bring Saturday Evening Post short-story writer Edna Ferber in from 1955 to pluck items from her grandmother’s trunk and shares the stories behind them. Learn about these ordinary items with extraordinary stories!
- The stories behind Edna and The Saturday Evening Post
- Norman Rockwell’s history with the magazine
- Coca Cola: how the drink started, stalled, and soared
- The turn-of-the-century dessert rave: JELLO
- Undergarment tidbits, including the journey of the corset (for men and women)
- Wizard Oil and other such Victorian “remedies” (and remedies)
… and much more!