3/23/2022 | Mark Hanson, Curator

We are hard at work preparing for our upcoming temporary exhibit, "A History of Healing." Recently, we moved one of our buggies into the gallery, and our volunteer, Ray, gave it a good cleaning. More on the exhibit coming soon!

John Trick ordered this Perry Manufacturing Company buggy from a hardware store in Sydney, Illinois in 1913. He used it to drive to church, his sister’s home, and into town. Mr. Trick was born in Germany in 1834 and emigrated in 1854. He later served with the 2nd Illinois Volunteer Cavalry during the Civil War.

Did you know that a lightweight carriage or buggy is sometimes called a phaeton? Helios, the Greek sun god, had a son named Phaethon. He asked his father to drive the sun chariot around the heavens. Phaethon could not control the chariot, and Zeus struck him down with a thunderbolt!

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