. Papers and proceedings of the Bergen County Historical Society . transportationbeing paid). Hasbrouck Heights and Bogota, the Girls Patri-otic League of Ridgefield Park, and the Mens Club of one otthe Hackensack churches. On the 19th. an illustrated talk atRutherford to the Womens Reading Club is to be given. A loaned exhibition of glass, china and pottery was givenfrom Feb. 15th to April 15th. There were three hundredarticles exhibited, including some of the very rare early Delftware, and other rare and choice specimens. Of the work ofBergen Countys own potter (1830-1860). Geo. W. Wolfkiel.
. Papers and proceedings of the Bergen County Historical Society . transportationbeing paid). Hasbrouck Heights and Bogota, the Girls Patri-otic League of Ridgefield Park, and the Mens Club of one otthe Hackensack churches. On the 19th. an illustrated talk atRutherford to the Womens Reading Club is to be given. A loaned exhibition of glass, china and pottery was givenfrom Feb. 15th to April 15th. There were three hundredarticles exhibited, including some of the very rare early Delftware, and other rare and choice specimens. Of the work ofBergen Countys own potter (1830-1860). Geo. W. were fifty pieces, (still on view). It was a great suc-cess: visitors from far and near. During the two months weaveraged a daily attendance of twenty-five, and it was duringour very severe weather. The next exhibit was the articles of the Colonial periodof 1700. The schools were studying that period. As we hav<a fine collection it was of great interest. Then come the Revolutionary period of school study andour collection, which is good, was PRIMITIVE SPINNING WHEEL. A handle on the rear turns the disk with the the Zabriskie-Van Dien Home, Pa ramus Road. An old author says: The action of spinning must be learned by practice, not by rela-tion. Sung by the poets, the grace and beauty of the occupation has ever shared praise withits utility. Wool-spinning was truly one of the most flexible and alert series of movements in theworld, and to its varied and graceful poisei our grandmothers may owe part of the dignity*t carriage that was so characteristic of them. It was a good days work for a quick, active spinner to spin six skeins of yarn a day. It*as estimated that to do that with her quick forward and backward steps she walked overtwenty miles.
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