Mr. George Shelton, a retired Industrial Arts teacher and Curator of the Attleboro Area Industrial Museum, developed the History to Go mobile museum exhibit in response to a reduction in pubic school field trip activities. His hour-long history lesson includes a time line, artifacts for the students to handle, a power point presentation, and the key chain making project. Local anthropoligy, geography, and social and industrial history are all included in this special in-school event.
"In past years Guyot Brothers has supplied heart, frog, cowboy, musical, and various other charms for the students as the decorative jewelry component of the project. This year's charm
will be the classic Egyptian sitting cat motif", noted Andrea Guyot Twombly, Vice-President of the 104 year-old brass jewelry findings manufacturing firm. "Nearly six hundred third grade
students benefit every year from Mr. Shelton's creative thinking and his desire to share Attleboro's long and important industrial history. We are delighted to participate and we hope the
students and teachers both enjoy Mr. Shelton's program", added Mrs. Twombly.
Operating in Attleboro continuously since 1904, Guyot Brothers is one of Attleboro's oldest manufacturers. Attleboro is known as the Birthplace of the Jewelry Industry in America, and
Guyot Brothers, now in its fourth generation, continues to produce their high-quality line of stamped filigree, charms, floral, geometric, hammered, and other decorative brass stampings
in the city. For viewing the line in person, the company maintains a showroom at their factory in Attleboro. The company's website can be viewed at http://www.guyotbrothers.com