1920 Hebron NH Entertainment Committee Badge with Shaking Hands carrying box from their tightly curled hair

from their tightly curled hair

done instead on a wire mesh screen (which one imagines was left over from screening the porch or barn yard or making a strainer) and

and also distinguishes it as much humbler than many fancier examples from same period

and standing on a small patch of grass in varied shades of green

1920 Hebron NH Entertainment Committee Badge with Shaking Hands carrying box from their tightly curled hairA fun thing, which I thought could be aptly pinned to one's chest on all sorts of occasions! And the history of Old Home Days, specific to New Hampshire, and continuing to this day, is a rich one, established by Governor Frank Rollins in 1899 as a way to invite former residents of New Hampshire home at a time when the opening of the West, and lure of urban centers with industrial jobs had depleted New Hampshires rural areas. At its height it was