Theater Costumes, Accessories, Hat - Garden Plays Chinese hat
1918 (Date manufactured/created)
Bamboo
Chinese-style bamboo hat worn as a costume for the local 1918 production, "Told in a Chinese Garden" (https://flic.kr/p/yTmMLv). This was the first play performed by the Woodland Garden Plays. Madison was home to the country's earliest summer theater. In 1918, Constance Grenelle Wilcox and Alice B. Keating founded the Woodland Garden Plays. The first performances were held in the woods behind the Wilcox home on Island Avenue, but later moved into an old barn on the property, called the "Playbarn". The plays were popular fundraisers for charitable causes including post WWI relief, the Madison Historical Society and the preservation of the Lee Academy.
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