Healdsburg Museum and Historical Society’s first exhibition of the year runs until May 28, and showcases the range of the museum’s collection. Highlights include Southern Pomo and Western Wappo baskets, paintings of Alice Haigh Dixon (who also was the 1896 Healdsburg Floral Festival Queen), a hooked rug created by Grace Hudson, the original Healdsburg plat map, a ball and chain used in Healdsburg’s first jail, vintage prune tending, kitchen and laundry tools, fashions of the 1860s to the 1960s and items of Pomo, rancho and pioneer history.
To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the United State’s entry into WW I, local and national memorabilia and historical items of the “Great War” are on display in the lower gallery throughout the year.
The museum is open to the public Wednesdays – Sundays, 11 – 4 at 221 Matheson Street. Admission is always free. For more information, call 431-3325 or visit www.healdsburgmuseum.org.
– Submitted by Tom Devitt
