Holiday Junction celebrates season at Faber’s

In late November of 2005, the Wellesley Historical Society’s Holiday Junction first appeared in the windows of Faber’s Rug Co. on Central Street, and it has been there ever since.

“December can be a relatively slow month in the rug business,” said Bob Faber, “so it was fairly easy for us to accommodate the trains, toys, and dollhouse that the Society displays each holiday season. We continue to get calls from parents and grandparents in November asking if it’ll be set up again, and this year wasn’t any different.”

The train layout belongs to Society member Allan Cook, and the dollhouse to Barbara Sturgis, a retired Wellesley elementary school teacher and Society member.
Cook says that “Holiday Junction has been a great way to share the trains with the town. Some of the kids who came by to see us eleven years ago are in college now.” Included in the windows are toys from Society member Nancy Erne’s family, including a barnyard with buildings that date to the 1890s, although most of the animals are of a more recent vintage.