Colonial Dress Up - streetsofsalem
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The previous residents of the street where I live periodically dressed up in “colonial” costumes and opened their houses to the public in the 1920s, 1930s, 1940s–as late as the 1970s, I believe. These were “Chestnut Street Days”, and various variations of this event occurred all over the country in the first half of the […]
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Colonial Dress Up - streetsofsalem
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Colonial Dress Up - streetsofsalem
Colonial Dress Up - streetsofsalem