A preview of things to come in 2021!
While we work to build a physical museum, we are creating virtual exhibits to share. The objects we’ve found lead us to tell their stories and we’ve chosen these two for 2021: The French American Encampment in 1781 and Edna Odell in World War I.
Several months ago, an amateur archeologist, John DiMaio of Valhalla, reached out to us to volunteer to search the areas of the 1781 French Encampment with his state of the art metal detector. He will be studying the Odell House site soon, but he has already given us a collection of French musket balls, uniform buckles and game pieces he found at Sunningdale Golf Course where the French artillery was camped. If you live in the area of the Encampment and would like him to search your property, let us know. He leaves the property in perfect condition and anything found is owned by the residents. We’d love to have more to display in the museum. So please let us know if you’d be willing to have him come for a treasure hunt! Your treasure could be part of the 1781 virtual exhibit.
Edna Odell, the great-granddaughter of Col. John Odell, was born in 1874. When we were able to go through the storage containers last month, we found the American Red Cross WWI Nursing uniform she wore in France rolled in a ball and in a sorry, dirty condition. To the rescue came Richard Bayliss of Nu-Way Cleaners in White Plains, NY. He carefully hand cleaned it and it will be the centerpiece of this exhibit. Thank you, Richard and thank you to everyone at Nu-Way!
We wish all of our friends a very HAPPY NEW YEAR!