JACKSON — For three days last week, conservators from Vermont’s non-profit Curtains Without Borders, working through a N.H. State Council on the Arts grant. worked to restore a 124-year-old theater curtain at the Jackson Historical Society.
The 19 1/2-by-8 1/2-foot curtain was done June 19-21 in the main room of the former Jackson Town Hall building.
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