By far, the vast majority of people completely understand and are extremely sympathetic to the decision of the FRHS board of directors to remain closed during the 2020 holiday season, prudently...
If nothing else, compliance with Center for Disease Control and Commonwealth of Massachusetts recommended protocols pertaining to the coronavirus pandemic has allowed for long postponed archival...
The FRHS archival collections contain thousands of bound volumes and several hundred thousand manuscripts, either individual examples or fonds, all pertaining to various aspects of Fall River...
The holiday season – the busiest, by far, at the FRHS – is fast approaching and staff and volunteers are in the process of decking the place out in holiday finery. Somewhat overwhelming, if truth...
Plans are underway to convert the small – but not too small – center room on the east side of the second floor of the museum building for use as a gallery for Mini Exhibits. Change is a very good...
The second floor exhibition gallery has been repainted thanks to a grant from the Thomas A. Rodgers Jr. Family Foundation. The walls were showing signs of wear and years of exhibit marks from frames...
The entire first floor of the wing that now houses the Museum Shop – the so-called “ell” housed the kitchen and service area in the days when the building was a private residence – has...
When the FRHS is closed for the season, we habitually get quite a bit of work done, without the day-to-day interruptions that come when the museum is open to the public. The past several weeks have...
The Christmas season is, by far, the busiest time of the year at the FRHS. It takes weeks to install the displays – during which yours truly is known to utter a barrage of choice expletives,...
