Walking through Peabody's Past set for Thanksgiving holiday
Visitors at the Peabody Historical Society's walk in downtown Peabody during the Thanksgiving Day holidays will see many scenes in store windows that could have happened in various decades.
The first casualty of World War I was Jay Reber. The Kevin Ensminger family will portray the sad Christmas ahead when the Western Union messenger brings word of Jay's death. This will be the first Gold Star flag in a window in Peabody.
Money and more money flowed in Peabody during oil boom times. Christmas carols around the oil derrick and Mr. Eyestone taking his checks to the bank could have been scenes during those years when "black gold" brought prosperity to the town.
Mrs. Eyestone is hoping for a new home in time for Christmas and the bankers simply are counting their cash!!
Business is booming, a new school is being built, the Sunflower Theater is going up, and all of those new homes along Walnut Street make Peabody "the place to be."
Peabody should be "the place to be" again this year during Thanksgiving and to go on the Christmas through Decades walk on Friday, Nov. 29, and Saturday, Nov. 30.
Tickets are at the Carnegie Library basement and the tours start from there beginning at 6 p.m. each night. Groups of about 12 people will be guided around the town with the usual "very entertaining guides!"
