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Highlights of the AHS Quilt Collection – Part 3
In 1835, CS Carpenter finished a beautiful white quilt by stuffing and sewing a cord between layers of soft, fine…
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Highlights of the AHS Quilt Collection – Part 2
This now faded cream and green colored quilt was once bright and showy, with crisp white cotton, and bright lime-green…
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Highlights of the AHS Quilt Collection – Part 1
In 1926, Mary Gage donated a large wool quilt to the Arlington Historical Society. Mary and her husband Alfred Payson…
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Highlights of the AHS Quilt Collection – Introduction
Bedding and quilts in particular are an interesting way to imagine the everyday or perhaps rather “everynight” lives of people…
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A Kitchen with a Polka Dot Ceiling
A Kitchen with a Polka Dot Ceiling Visitors to the Jason Russell House often…
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My Experience as a Tour Guide at the Jason Russell House
This is a guest post from Colleen Cunningham, one of our most experienced tour guides at the Jason Russell House. …
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Tornadoes In Arlington
On Tuesday, June 24, 2015 Arlington residents were under a tornado watch until 11 p.m. Luckily the time passed without…
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Clay Pipes from the Jason Russell House Archaeological Dig: March 1985
Pipe stems and bowls such as these are very common among finds at digs in the northeastern United States, given…
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Glass Artifacts from the Jason Russell House Dig, March 1985
Many, many fragments of glass were found at the Jason Russell House dig, in all excavation locations. Glass doesn’t break…
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What do we know about the construction of the Jason Russell House?
Robert Nylander published a report in 1964 that suggested that Jason Russell built the house in two stages: one part…
