The museum is home to hundreds of hair wreaths including one that might contain the hair of former president Harry S. Truman. The locks are being tested for Truman's DNA. Leila's Hair Museum ...

the museum’s curator of history.) When the Spies & Champney hair wreath debuted on April 4, it immediately emerged as one of the fair’s highlights, not only because it was such a unique work ...

"Her interest in these objects helped actually literally save them from being destroyed," historian Helen Sheumaker says of Cohoon. A closer look at one of the wreaths in the Hair Museum collection.

Wreaths made from the hair of one dead person ... author of Love Entwined: The Curious History of Hair Work. In the 19th century, mortality rates were much higher, and most funerals happened ...

There were hair wreaths and hair paintings ... and an assortment of other spots where history and culture are wound up with famous and not-so-famous tresses: 1. Leila's Hair Museum // Independence ...

What if strands of history could be traced through strands of hair? As strange as it sounds ... for contributing to the museum. The framed wreaths on display at Leila’s are not always ...

It will appear every Sunday in the Connect section of The Express-Times. Victorian hair wreaths at the Sigal Museum, 342 Northampton St., Easton Victorian hair wreaths were created as a memorial ...

Leila Cohoon has collected at least 600 wreaths and 2,000 pieces of jewelry made of hair for Leila’s Hair Museum in Independence, reportedly the only museum of its kind in this country.

A look at the sheer range of hairstyle that defined the earliest days of America’s contemporary hair industry. Art historian Elizabeth L. Block noticed this, too. Her fascinating new book ...

Dr. Vanessa Warne shares how historic Victorian crafts like rag rugs and hair wreaths help students connect to the past and each other through hands-on making.