WDM hosts popular holiday program A Christmas Long Ago on Dec. 10 and Dec. 17
Experience the traditions and celebrations of Christmas past
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a progression of their arrival to settling down, and how their families branched out to different places.
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The presentation will consist of three parts: a story narration with projections of photographs from the museum’s archive, a real-life visual, followed by an activity where everyone would make Christmas cards with recycled materials and replicate different techniques that were used \HDUV DJR
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