Join Leverett historian and artist Louise Minks for a fascinating, interactive program about paupers in Pelham and surrounding towns. Paupers were “auctioned off” at town meetings in New England from the 1600s generally through the Civil War; many towns developed town poor farms as an alternative to that method primarily post-Civil War right up until the New Deal. Pelham and Leverett’s early warrant articles and town meeting minutes reveal the names of paupers, who “bought” them and for how much.