Laconia Historical and Museum Society to host program on antique toys

Do you remember the toys of your childhood? Did you play with dolls and Lincoln Logs, tea sets and teddy bears? Perhaps a favorite toy even arrived during the winter holiday season! Shirley Splaine, director of the Pauline E. Glidden Toy Museum in Ashland, and daughter ofits founder,will speak on the history of toys in her talk “Pop Goes the Weasel: Toys and the Nostalgia of Childhood,” on Monday, December 13, 2004, at 7:30 p.m., in the Parish House of the Congregational Church, UCC, in Veterans Square, Laconia. Please note the new location for this gathering.

The Pauline E. Glidden Toy Museum houses Glidden’s lifelong collection of over 2.000 antique toys. The museum, which opened in 1991 in a small 1810 Cape Cod-style house, was later donated to the Ashland Historical Society. The museum and its well-loved contents were featured several years ago on the television news magazine Chronicle. Splaine will bring several of her mother’s favorite toys to illustrate her talk. Children and adults alike will enjoy hearing about toys of the past.

The program is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served during the meeting. For more information please call Judy Loto at 527-1278.