Maplelawn Farmstead, 9575 Whitestown Rd., recently announced plans to present Serious Fun: Board Games of the Great Depression Era – an exhibit of vintage games from the Maplelawn collection.
Marianne Doyle, Boone County Historian and Programming Chair for Maplelawn Farmstead, and Lynne Manning, Maplelawn Board Member and Zionsville Junior Historical Society co-leader along with Doyle, developed the exhibit with the help of Zionsville Junior Historical Society members.
Serious Fun: Board Games of the Great Depression Era will be on exhibit in the Maplelawn farmhouse during the month of November. The farmhouse will be open from 1 to 3 p.m. every Saturday and Sunday in November. Guests to Maplelawn will have the opportunity to view the exhibit and enjoy light refreshments, as well as play some of the iconic games from this era including Carom, Sorry!, Scrabble, and Monopoly.
In addition, guests will have the opportunity to be game testers for two new games developed for this exhibit – Famous People of the Great Depression Era, a memory game developed by the Zionsville Junior Historical Society, and Boom or Bust: A Hobo’s Journey During the Great Depression, a board game developed by Maplelawn. The exhibit is free and is open to the public.
Contributing members of the Junior Historical Society were Emma Bartosz, Daniel Doyle, Mason Doyle, Max Doyle, Sydney Fulford, Hadley Smithhisler and Olivia Smithhisler.
Maplelawn Farmstead, a nonprofit organization that creates experiences that connect people to the rich, rural history of the 1930’s Great Depression era on an Indiana family farm, is listed as a Historic District on the National Register of Historic Places.
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