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Gunn Historical Museum 5 Wykeham Road P.O. Box 1273 Washington, CT 06793 Telephone: 860-868-7756 gunnmuseum@sbcglobal.net

Museum Hours: Thursday - Saturday 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Sundays: closed for the winter Other times by appointment. Staff: Stephen Bartkus, Curator Sarah Griswold, Curatorial Assistant

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Current Exhibits & Programs

Jerome Titus: The Story of a Civil War Soldier from Washington
June 2009 through Winter 2010

Michael Croft's 8th grade Social Studies classes at Shepaug Valley Middle School have transcribed part of the 1864 diary of Jerome Titus, a musician in the Second Connecticut Heavy Artillery, from the collection of the Gunn Museum for their annual local history project this year. This award-winning local history project is an annual collaboration of the Gunn Memorial Museum, the Gunnery and Shepaug Valley Middle School. The students' work is being shared with the public in a book that they have published and through an exhibit that they have created at the Gunn Memorial Museum. Come to the museum and learn about the the first phase of this year's exciting project.

Gift Shop

Give the spirit of historic Washington!

100 Years Ago: GML in 1908 Limited edition reproductions of an original postcard of the Gunn Memorial Library are on sale for $2 each at the library and museum in celebration of the Centennial of the Library.

		Vintage scenes of Washington; 50¢ per postcard. Click on images to enlarge.

Rossiter: Country Houses of Washington, Connecticut, 2006 by Stephen Ketterer, Photographs by Miki Duisterhof, $75. All proceeeds from the sale of this book benefit the Gunn Memorial Library and Museum. Copies are available at the library's main circulation desk (860-868-7586) and at the Hickory Stick Bookshop (860-868-0525).

Return to Arcadia: Ehrick Rossiter's Washington, The Architect, His Clients and Their Houses, 1999 edition by Alison Gilchrist, $15

Washington, Pride of Place postcards of a watercolor by Wendell Minor, $1 each. 1854 Map of Washington with key to illustrated buildings, 35" x 40 1/2" unframed, $20 Botanical Tapestry: An Herb Booklet, 1979 by Barrie Kavasch, $1 Frozen in Time, 1998 by Hope McLeod. Cassette Tape: $10, CD: $16. Washington native Hope McLeod's latest CD features the song "Goin' Back Home" about visiting Washington and the Shepaug River. "Goin' back home to lay beneath a maple tree and to rest my weary bones on the banks of a quiet stream, Goin' back home so I can bathe in those memories of lazy days by the Shepaug River when my time was oh so free."

All items are available at the Museum and Library, and can be mailed to those who live out of the area for an additional fee. For more information, call 860-868-7756.

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