The Buttonhole Museum
of Greater Linden Township

Open Tuesdays & Saturdays — Free Admission — Please Come!!

Current Mood: determined!  ·  Currently Listening: the radiator

Hello hello HELLO, families and friends and anyone who clicked the bookmark by accident — this is your PTA Chair (Mrs. Halloran-Beck, hi!) writing to you from the front desk of OUR museum, which is OUR museum, which YOU PAY TAXES FOR, which currently has ONE (1) visitor this month and it was the mailman and he was confused.

So! I am instituting a RIDDLE OF THE WEEK because Sharon said it would help and Sharon is usually right about these things (sorry Greg).

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            /   BUTTONHOLE MUSEUM       \
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           |    ___________________    |
           |   |  .--.  .--.  .--.  |  |
           |   | (    )(    )(    ) |  |
           |   |  '--'  '--'  '--'  |  |
           |   |   o     o     o    |  |
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             |___|   ESTAB. 1962
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★ THIS WEEK'S RIDDLE ★

I am the smallest exhibit on the second floor.
I have one eye and no face.
I have been sewn through ten thousand times and never bled.
I am named for the door I let things pass through,
but I am not a door, and nothing ever truly passes through me —
only the thread, briefly, on its way somewhere else.

What am I?

— with warmth, Mrs. H-B ✿

A BUTTONHOLE, of course!
(Specifically: the 1887 silk waistcoat buttonhole in Case 2B, donated by the Linden estate. Please come visit her. She is lonely.)
psst — there's a brass plate on the wall. give it a tap.
(or press the M key, that also works)

The MUSEUM has four hundred and eighteen buttonholes on display, including a buttonhole from a uniform worn during the Linden Township Founders' Day Parade of 1962 (YES the very first one!!), a doll-sized buttonhole that took Edith Voss six months to embroider, and a buttonhole that may or may not have belonged to Abraham Lincoln (we are NOT making claims, we are saying SOMEONE in 1973 SAID this and the paperwork is in a folder).

our beautiful Case 4 (the embroidered ones!!) Edith, Marge, and Pat at last year's social (she made the lemon bars!) Founders' Hall — yes there is a LOT going on in here

Tap the ⌘ M.O.T.H. ⌘ to reveal the answer.
(Museum Of The Hole — that's our acronym, Sharon picked it, we're stuck with it)

Hours: Tues 10–2 · Sat 10–4 (closed if it rains hard) · Admission: always free · Curator: Edith Voss (92, sharp as a tack) · Cat in residence: Mortimer (visiting, sort of)