From : New Canaan News
Thursday, March
13, 2014
"Seeing Red: Little Red Riding Hood Visits the Historical Society" is set up to mimic the story it celebrates.
At the New Canaan
Historical Society, visitors begin the tour outside of a wooden skeleton of a
house built into the corner of the room, meant to be Little Red Riding Hood's
house. A walk down a corridor -- strewn with stones, hay and ivy -- finally
reaching an elaborately framed room, with a bed and a sleeping grandma.
All along the
walls and in the houses are the results of more than 50 years of Little Red
Riding Hood antiques and memorabilia collection of dolls, coat hangers,
advertisements, oven mitts, plates, and more.
The collection
belongs to Peggy Rice, who explained that she fell in love with the imagery
when she became a mother.
"I have four
children and my youngest daughter Maggie was 4 or 5 and she loved the story. I
bought her some Little Red Riding Hood stuff and she didn't care, but I became
hooked," Rice said.
In the years that
followed, Rice's collection grew to more than just memorabilia, also acting as
a historical record of the tale in popular culture. [more..]
