By Karrie Jacobs

If you would like to see a swatch of fabric from the trousers worn by Undersheriff Osman N. Steele on the very day he was shot to death on Dingle Hill in 1845,  one of the climactic events in the Anti-Rent War,  or something more pleasant like “friendship quilt” embroidered in 1900 by a group of friends from local towns including Andes, Shavertown, Dunraven, Margaretville and Arena, or a whole host of other intriguing local artifacts, there’s good news: You still have time to visit the Andes Cabinet of Curiosities at the Hunting Tavern Museum. The exhibit will remain open every Saturday (with free admission, of course) through the end of October.

Also on display, in addition to an assortment of intriguing objects from the Hunting Tavern’s collection,  are a couple of recently discovered curiosities, rare illustrated books that had long been hidden away in a box in a back room of the Andes Society for History and Culture Thrift Shop.  There’s a 1785 edition, published in London, of “An authentic narrative of a voyage performed by Captain Cook and Captain Clerke, In his Majesty’s ships Resolution and Discovery…” and an 1810 edition of the famous 1678 allegorical novel, The Pilgrim’s Progress.~