RIHS celebrates holidays with Open House, Santa’s Workshop

WOONSOCKET — The Rhode Island Historical Society invites the community to visit the Museum of Work & Culture on Saturday, Dec. 2, between 1 and 5 p.m., for a free annual Holiday Open House, offered as part of Woonsocket’s Main Street Holiday Stroll.

In attendance will be the North Pole Postman, whose latest book, ‘The North Pole Postman Visits Rhode Island’ – in which Santa’s postman “Post” Mark visits sites across the Ocean State to collect letters from children – features the Museum of Work & Culture. “Post” Mark will be at the Mo WC from 1 to 3 p.m. to sign books and help children write letters that he will then bring to the North Pole.

Visitors are also invited to decorate cookies from Wright’s Dairy Farm & Bakery and help Santa’s elves build and test toys in their workshop.

Children who help the elves will be entered in a raffle to win a toy train set.

Visitors may also tour the Museum of Work & Culture, which will be decked in its holiday finest, while enjoying cookies, hot cocoa, and per- formances by Woonsocket’s strolling entertainers.

The Museum of Work & Culture gift shop will also offer a 20 percent discount throughout the day.

The interactive and educational Museum of Work & Culture shares the stories of the men, women, and children who came to find a better life in Rhode Island’s mill towns in the late 19th- and 20th centuries.

It recently received a Rhode Island Monthly Best of Rhode Island Award for its Sens Abilities Saturdays all-ability program.