1267 Christmas Concert at the Westerly Armory (3)
Limited-time at Railroad Ave, Westerly, RI
Plant date: December 7, 2025
1. Westerly Armory
2. Pete’s Trombone
3. Wedding Gown


Well, it seems we made it back home from another trip to Central Europe just in time to try to play our annual Christmas Concert at the Westerly Armory after all! So, for anyone who hasn’t already gotten these first two associated stamps, we will be having them available in each of our trombone cases for either before or after the concert, which starts at 2PM on Sunday, December 7, 2025, and runs for about an hour or so, with over a dozen variations on different holiday-themed pieces, and with coffee and cookies included, too!

There is a $5 “donation” for attending the concert, but all money collected is always given back to the armory as a “thank you” for letting us use the upstairs hall as our practice space, so hopefully that can help out a bit in keeping the armory and its associated museum going. Roberta, the armory president who is in charge of the museum, is usually glad to offer short tours, and is also now the keeper of our “Westerly Town Seal” letterbox, with its stamp carved by connecticut croaker, so be sure to ask her for that if you didn’t already get it when it was over at the Westerly Railroad Station, which has now been turned into an art gallery of sorts. We are not sure where Roberta (my 4th grade teacher’s daughter) might be keeping that letterbox at the moment, since Pete and I were both a bit surprised and delighted that she considered it a museum donation artifact rather than just a plain old letterbox! However, that is pretty cool for us, since we just might be the first people to get a letterbox actually included as a historic artifact in a museum, and not just hidden somewhere in a museum - at least anywhere that we know of in this part of the world!

Anyway, among other things, the Westerly armory also has an exhibit of wedding gowns from different decades, to which I had previously donated my mother’s extravagantly lavish wedding gown representing the 1950’s and which can be seen as the center piece of those descending the central staircase. At the last minute, we have decided to add a stamp for that as well, since we just happened to have a stamp of a bride carved by RTRW of CT long ago that is currently still in between plantings. For many years it was planted along the Appalachian Trail as “June Bride on October Mountain”, then we pulled it to be replanted as “June Bride on June Mountain”, but that hasn’t happened yet! So, just for a couple of hours around concert time, say between around 1:30 to 3:30PM, we will try to have it discreetly tucked under the right side of my mother’s gown directly by her shoes. Please be very very careful, though, if you reach down while standing on the steps for this little white pill bottle, since we wouldn’t want anyone getting hurt or starting an avalanche of wedding gowns! Happy Holidays to all!

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