The Woburn Faire

December 2, 2009 by Mike Cooper

A perfect opportunity to do some Holiday shopping, the Woburn Faire will feature "All Things Woburn", including books, photos, souvenirs, DVDs, art work, collector's items, etc.

• Ace Hardware - Woburn logo Bears, umbrellas, water bottles, gym bags, ball caps and T-shirts
• Joe Brown - Photographer - Photo cards and enlargements of Woburn
• Bill Campbell - co-author of "Forgotten Tales and Untold Stories" will have Joanne Campbell's Music CDs
• Marie Coady - Author - "Hidden Tales of a Tannery Town"
• Jeanne Freeman - Author - childrens' book - "Katie's Pond"
• Friends of the Woburn Library selling - "Dark Tide: The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919"
• Gerry Kehoe - Photographer - Innitou Photo - Photo cards, enlargements and custom Christmas Cards
• Sarah Kehoe - Photographer - Photo cards and enlargements of Woburn
• John McElhiney - Author - "Woburn:  A Past Observed" and "Woburn: Forgotten Tales and Untold Stories"
• Marcy Lee Ragucci - Author - "Whimsical Wonderings" (book of poetry)
• Social Capital Inc. (SCI) - selling the tickets for the Dec 6th Holiday House Tour of Woburn
• Woburn Guild of Artist  -  oil paintings, water colors, sculptures, wood carvings, photography, etc
• Woburn Historical Society - Rumford Ornament (see below) and DVDs of all their past shows
• Woburn Senior Center - cookbooks and Woburn throws

The Count Rumford Ornament that the "Society" has available for sale this year.  This Ornament hopefully will be the first in an annual series of Historical Woburn Ornaments.  The ornament sells for $15 and comes in it's own gift box.  It will be available at the Woburn Faire or you can even order it my mail see below.

WOBURN HISTORICAL SOCIETY

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The Count Rumford Ornament

Birthplace of Benjamin Thompson (1753 -1814)

Scholar, Soldier, Spy, Statesman and Scientist

Benjamin Thompson (Count Rumford) was born on March 26, 1753 at 90 Elm Street in Woburn, MA in a house built about 1714 by his grandfather. It is now preserved as a museum and is on the List of National Historic Landmarks and the National Register of Historic Places.

In 1772, he met and married a well-to-do widow named Sarah Walker Rolfe in Rumford (now called Concord), New Hampshire. Through his wife's influence with the governor, he was appointed a Major in the New Hampshire Militia. When the American Revolution began, he was opposed to the rebels and so was welcomed by the British, to whom he gave valuable information about the American forces. He left for England in 1776.

In 1785, he moved to Bavaria where he spent eleven years reorganizing the army and establishing workhouses for the poor. He studied methods of cooking, heating, and lighting. Thompson was an inventor, developing improvements for chimneys and fireplaces (Rumford Fireplace) and inventing the double boiler, a kitchen range, and a drip coffeepot. He was made a Count of the Holy Roman Empire in 1791.

Thompson endowed the Rumford Medals of the Royal Society, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a professorship at Harvard University. In 1803, he was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Rumford died in 1814 and was buried near Paris, where he had spent the last years of his life.

Click below for an order form to order the Ornaments.

Click here: http://www.woburnhistoricalsociety.com/pdfs/ornament_order_form_portrait%2011-01-09%20$18.pdf

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