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Show Holiday Open House At SUP Museum Draws Hundreds Approximatey one thousand persons took advantage of the sunshine sun-shine on Washington's Birthday to tour the SUP Pioneer Village Museum. New displays shown at the special open house included hundred-year-old maps, one of which was used by the Utah pioneers as they crossed the plains, and an intricately carved tilt-top table made from wood of the famous Charter Oak tree which stood in Hartford, Connecticut. The tree became famous during dur-ing the 17th century, when a dictatorial dic-tatorial British governor announced an-nounced he would revoke the Connecticut Con-necticut charter. The residents took the charter .from official files, and hid it in a hollow of the oak tree, where it stayed for three years until the colonists were allowed al-lowed to resume their self-rule activities. When the tree was blown down in a storm in 1856, it was sawed into lumber by a man who later came west to Cheyenne, Wyoming. His daughter inherited the inlaid table, which took about four years to finish, and later presented it to Village Museum, even more glory for |