{"id":5,"date":"2009-05-13T11:01:13","date_gmt":"2009-05-13T15:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.litchfieldhistoricalsociety.org\/blog\/?p=5"},"modified":"2016-12-08T15:55:36","modified_gmt":"2016-12-08T19:55:36","slug":"miss-wiggins-attic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.litchfieldhistoricalsociety.org\/?p=5","title":{"rendered":"Miss Wiggin’s Attic"},"content":{"rendered":"

Charlotte Monroe Wiggin<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Charlotte Wiggin<\/p><\/div>\n

Those of you who remember when the Society\u2019s research library was on the top floor may recall this brass plaque on the wall at the stair landing:<\/p>\n

\u00a0Charlotte Monroe Wiggin
\n1886-1974
\nCurator for 18 years
\nWithout her dedication and interest in collecting objects and papers of historical value
\nthis museum would not have grown to its present stature<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Miss Wiggin, as she was known to all, was the society\u2019s curator from 1949 through her retirement in 1967.\u00a0 <\/span>And during those years the museum and library truly were \u201cMiss Wiggin\u2019s Attic.\u201d\u00a0 <\/span>The early years of the twentieth century were a time of tremendous growth for the Society.\u00a0 <\/span>These were the years that Society\u2019s earliest supporters, most notably Emily Noyes Vanderpoel and Mary Perkins Quincy tirelessly collected objects and papers for the museum and library.\u00a0 <\/span>Miss Wiggin took on the task of more formally organizing and cataloguing this vast collection. Her efforts laid the groundwork for the work we do today.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Miss Wiggin lived a rich and colorful life before she returned to Litchfield and the Historical Society.\u00a0 <\/span>She graduated from Smith College in 1908, taught school in New York City and later became the headmistress of schools in Pittsburgh and Washington DC.\u00a0 <\/span>She served with the Red Cross working with orphans in Serbia , traveled throughout Europe and operated a children\u2019s summer camp in France for many years. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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The picture shown here is our only known image of Miss Wiggin.\u00a0 <\/span>We hope any of you who remember Miss Wiggin will share your memories \u2013 and photographs – with us.\u00a0 <\/span>Just click on comment to add your thoughts.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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And check back often to find out what is new in \u201cMiss Wiggins Attic\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Charlotte Monroe Wiggin Those of you who remember when the Society\u2019s research library was on the top floor may recall this brass plaque on the wall at the stair landing: \u00a0Charlotte Monroe Wiggin 1886-1974 Curator for 18 years Without her dedication and interest in collecting objects and papers of historical value this museum would not […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.litchfieldhistoricalsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.litchfieldhistoricalsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.litchfieldhistoricalsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.litchfieldhistoricalsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.litchfieldhistoricalsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blog.litchfieldhistoricalsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":761,"href":"https:\/\/blog.litchfieldhistoricalsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5\/revisions\/761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.litchfieldhistoricalsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.litchfieldhistoricalsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.litchfieldhistoricalsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}