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 FRHS maintains a large collection of Fall River high school memorabilia – public and parochial – including ever-popular yearbooks, made available to researchers visiting the Charlton Library...
In a previous post I mentioned that researching the history of material in the FRHS collections is a favorite aspect of my work – “the thrill of the hunt,” you know – and this is another...
In a recent posting I discussed Autumn at Medway, a diminutive 1885 oil on wood-panel painting by the Fall River artist Robert Spear Dunning (1829-1905); it depicts a scene on the Charles River in...
It is surprising what can accumulate between the pages and along the inside spine of an old ledger over the decades – dust, soot from coal or wood fires, long-dead insects (ideally), and the like....
Last Sunday morning – and a fine one at that – the FRHS hosted its Volunteer Brunch at the Venus de Milo Restaurant in Swansea, with seventy-four members of our volunteer staff in attendance. The...
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...
Robert Spear Dunning (1829-1905), the founder of the so-called “Fall River School,” is a painter best known for his opulent still life paintings of fruit, often arranged in elaborate serving...
Work is progressing with our project documenting the history of R. A. McWhirr’s department store. Betty Prescott and Suzie Mills Shaw have wrapped up the first phase of the project, having recorded...
As with most things, there really is no way of knowing exactly what the day will bring at the FRHS – or in this instance, what the mail will bring. That is what makes it interesting – or so it is...
