This week’s featured artifact is
a necklace with rhinestones or red glass pieces. This lovely, sparkly necklace
was donated to the Museum by Diane Gayton.
Diane worked at the Museum as the
curator from 1998 to 2004. Diane was a hobby seamstress who maintained a craft
business while also working at the Museum. Diane and her husband Gerald had a
farm adjoining the homestead that Gerald’s parents worked.
This glitzy and glamourous necklace
showcases the style of the 1960s. It also brings to mind the gift giving
associated with the most romantic holiday of the year: Valentine's Day. Giving jewelry to your
sweetheart for Valentine’s Day became popular in the 1980s, when the diamond
industry got involved in gift giving traditions.
This necklace is on display for
the month of February, as part of our Valentine’s exhibit.
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| PRMA 03.04.19 |
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