210 Main Street, Marrick, in the old post office.

Call 555-0142
MARRICK MUSEUM

The collection: The Kitchen Table

A long ivory satin wedding dress from 1934 with long sleeves and a short train, on a dress form.

Wedding dress, 1934

Acc. 1998.002.4

The Kitchen Table · upstairs

Sewn in the back room of the dry-goods store.

Vera Kowal wore it to marry Arne Nyberg at St. Columba's in June 1934. Her daughter gave it to the museum with the wedding photograph.

The families in this story.

In the archives

  • 1931 · photo

    Marrick School, Grades 3 and 4

    Eighteen children and Miss Carrow. Eight faces still unnamed.

  • 1923 · photo

    The Merrin Creek mill crew

    Fourteen men and a boy on the log deck, with the crosscut saw.

  • 1934 · photo

    Vera Kowal and Arne Nyberg's wedding

    On the steps of St. Columba's, with both families.

  • 1911 · newspaper

    Marrick Mercury: Mill whistle heard for first time

    Front page, 14 June 1911. Names Olaf Nyberg and Per Lund as head sawyers.

  • 1934 · newspaper

    Marrick Mercury: Kowal and Nyberg

    Social page, 22 June 1934. The bride's dress was made on Main Street.

Come see the originals.

It's in The Kitchen Table, upstairs, with the lift at the back of the counter hall. Ask at the counter and we'll tell you more about it.

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