Surratt House Booklet

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I must confess that this beautiful booklet was a surprise to me! The first thirty pages of text have been my creative writing over the past thirty years as we created take-home lessons for our Christmas visitors. The graphics in those days were real cut-and-paste. I would copy photos out of books on a Xerox machine, cut them out with scissors, and paste them on the pages with old-fashioned glue sticks, and then send it off to the printer. No color and nothing fancy.

This year, two of my staff members, Susan Proctor and Julie Cowdery (our education coordinators), totally surprised me by using their computer skills to update this booklet into the colorful masterpiece that it is now. Susan also added the history of the dolls that two of our volunteers put on display throughout the entire house. As I noted before, we had dolls in every room except the tavern and the public bathrooms. I did not see the finished product until it came back from the printer. It is absolutely amazing what talented people and computers can do to bring history alive.

Thank you, Paige, for the compliments.