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WEEKDAY MATTERS | Twilight Thursdays offer evening hours for ‘Memories of Christmas Past’

By Mahoning Matters staff and Tom Williams
The "Memories of Christmas Past" exhibit will open Saturday at the Arms Family Museum in Youngstown. (Photo courtesy of Mahoning Valley Historical Society)
The "Memories of Christmas Past" exhibit will open Saturday at the Arms Family Museum in Youngstown. (Photo courtesy of Mahoning Valley Historical Society)

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YOUNGSTOWN — With Twilight Thursdays, visitors to the Mahoning Valley Historical Society's "Memories of Christmas Past" exhibit at Arms Family Museum can enjoy the display during evening hours in December.

Twilight Thursdays will run through Dec. 30. Hours are 4 to 7 p.m. each Thursday.

Regular hours at the museum are noon to 4 p.m. Tuesdays through Sundays plus Dec. 27. The museum will be closed Dec. 24 and 25.

The final day of the 13th "Memories of Christmas Past" exhibit will be Dec. 31 from noon to 7 p.m.

This season's overall theme, "Back to Greystone," will not only reflect the return to an in-person, museum experience for the holiday season but also will portray festive décor and traditions during the 1900s to the 1930s, inspired by how Olive F. A. Arms might have dressed and decorated her home in that era.

Poets Andrew Rihn, RC Wilson to read Wednesday

YOUNGSTOWN — Lit Youngstown's First Wednesday Readers Series will present Andrew Rihn of Canton and RC Wilson of Kent at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the Soap Gallery, 117 S. Champion St.

The reading, free and open to the public, will be co-hosted by Gayle Catinella and will be followed by an open mic.

Rihn is the author of "Revelation: An Apocalypse in Fifty-Eight Fights," a book of prose poems about Mike Tyson. He writes "The Pugilist," a monthly boxing column for Into the Void magazine, where he is also a poetry editor.

Wilson performs poems, songs and monologues and is a frequent organizer of poetry readings and events in the Kent area.

Some quick hits …

  • Dewey the Elf is back at the Poland Library, 311 S. Main St., from Wednesday through Dec. 23. Can you find him? Tell the librarian where he's hiding and get a Christmas sticker. For children through fourth grade.

  • From 7 to 10 p.m. Wednesday, it's Ty & Friends Open Mic Night at Jr'z Pub, 1722 S. Raccoon Road, Austintown. You can perform solo or with a full band. Comedians are also welcome.

This story was originally published November 29, 2021 at 4:45 AM with the headline "WEEKDAY MATTERS | Twilight Thursdays offer evening hours for ‘Memories of Christmas Past’."