JACKSON — There is more to see at the Jackson Historical Society than its outdoor “Return of the Pumpkin People” display on the Gray’s Inn fire of July 1983, but it certainly makes for a good way to start your tour of the current exhibit, “Jackson’s Missing Mansions and Lost Hotels.”
The new exhibit includes five newly commissioned paintings by artist Erik Koeppel of some of the long-gone buildings as well as storyboards of seven properties with vintage photographs and tales of their owners.
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