Grafton Historical Society Meeting

The Grafton Historical Society’s July meeting will be held at the Grafton Town Hall on July 20 at 7 pm. Our speaker will be Phyllis Chapman. She has been a historical interpreter for more than ten years, has a masters degree in museum education from Skidmore College and has worked at the Bennington Museum and Bennington Battlefield site.  Phyllis has made presentations at the Park McCullough House in North Bennington and the Quaker Meeting House in Chatham and numerous other historical societies.
Her presentation will be a Clara Barton interpretation. She will discuss Clara’s life before the Civil War, her work during the war as a nurse and after the war in locating POWs and missing soldiers. This led to the creation of the American Red Cross.
Chapman will bring artifacts and replicas of Civil War medicine objects and will be in costume.
For more information, contact Dorothy at historicgrafton@aol.com or 641-9660.