About Town

Of Wee Folk and Holiday Music

Creator of Wee Forest Folk celebrates 40 years in business, and the Concord Band presents its Holiday Pops concert.

  I love stories of people who reinvent themselves, sometimes more than once, throughout their lives. Who says you have to have just one career, really? So boring! And isn’t it great when you discover a passion for something, at a time when the world thinks you should be tapering off and moving to somewhere warm, and instead you’re learning a new skill and doing something that delights you? Well, that’s what happened to Annette Petersen. She’s the woman behind the Wee Forest Folk, tiny sculptures of mice and fairies, over at the Montague Gallery on Walden Street. Believe me, there are a slew of them over there, each one cuter than the last, and so detailed and beautiful you just want to buy them all. Annette raised three children here in …

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