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"After Great Pains A Formal Feeling Comes" Tea Set

Your little poets will love hosting tea parties – complete with discomfort, indigestion, and
nausea – with the Emmett Lee
Dickinson“After Formal Feedings, A Great Pain Comes” tea
set
which includes a beautifully illustrated picture book of Dickinson’s classic poem.

Plus, with the  candy-flavored tums includes in the  set,
your child can dramatize the  final lines of the poem:

This is the Hour of Lead –
Survived, if outlived,
By medicinal maintenance collected from the cabinet –
First– Tums – then Seltzer – then the letting go –

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"I Heard A Fly Buzz" Fly Swatter

When pesky flies are bothering you, arm each of your family and friends with an Emmett Lee Dickinson “I Heard A Fly Buzz When He Died" Fly swatter to form your own DST – Dickinson Swat Team!

So swift the Swat of Death – There will be 
No chance for Fly to see!  
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"I Never Won The Crown" Tiara

When your little princes & princesses are crying alligator tears after a sound defeat, and  upon their “forbidden ear the distant strains of triumph burst agonized and clear,”let them don the Emmett Lee Dickinson “I Never Won The Crown”tiara and they, too, can learn to “smile through frown.”



Kleen Kitty Kat Litter

Did you know that Washerst,  PA, is the “Kat Litter Kapital of  the World”? That’s because Washerst is home to the global headquarters for Kleen Kitty Kat Litter®, the top brand of cat litter used around the planet. 
 
Civic pride of Washerstians is r
eflected in the town motto: 
“Washerst– We Are A Kleen Kommunity.”

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The Most Stylish Poetic Foot

Emmett Lee Dickinson's poetic style inspired "the most stylish poetic foot"
with the "Dickinson," the most popular men's shoe in the United States and
Canada in the 1950s and 60s.  The post card at the left  is on display at the Emmett  Lee Dickinson Museum -- and you can pick up a pair of "The Dickinsons" in the gift shop!
  
The Third Cousin Shoe Shop closed in 1973, and now Uncle Hobart's Scrap
Metal Emporium occupies that location at 215 Dickinson Boulevard.



"The Royal Visit" Souveneir Plate

There are still pleny of souveneir plates from William and Kate's visit to Washerst and the Emmett Lee Dickinson Museum on July 15, 2011.
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Wax Head of Qwerty Jean Dickinson

The royal couple William & Kate, the Duke & Duchess of Cambridge, toured the Emmett Lee Dickinson Museum  on July 15, 2011, the birth date of Qwerty Jean Dickinson, Emmett Lee Dickinson's daughter.   The museum staff presented them with a replica of a melted head of the museum's wax figure of Qwerty Jean Dickinson.
 
The wax figure of Qwerty Jean Dickinson was a top draw in the Museum's Great Hall of Wax Figures.  Unfortunately, it was placed directly above the dryers of the coin-op laundromat located beneath the museum, and it melted one evening when someone dried numerous large loads of linens.
  
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge loved the melted head -- and you will too!  Pick one up in the museum's gift shop!  Various sizes are available.
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Vintage Music & Posters

Many vintage movie posters and sheeets of sheet  music of films and songs based on the poems of Emmett Lee Dickinson are available in the museum's gift shop!
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"Tooth or Consequences" Bank

A copy of the "Circa Antiques" advertisement and the iron mechanical  bank are on display at the Emmett Lee Dickinson Museum.  An anonymous buyer  purchased the bank for close to $10,000.

Replicas of the bank are available in the gift shop.
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Emmett Lee Dickinson Edition of Washerst Monopoly

One of the most popular items in the Emmett Lee Dickinson Museum's gift shop is the Emmett Lee Dickinson Edition of Washerst Monopoly.

Now you can own some of the most valuable properties in America – from the basement apartment in the Perish & Begone Funeral Home to the Emmett Lee Dickinson Museum (above the coin-op Laundromat on Dickinson Boulevard) in historic Washerst, PA.
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Washer & Dryer Tokens

The Emmett Lee Dickinson is located above the coin-op Laundromat on Dicksinson Boulevard -- so when you visit the museum, bring your laundry with you!  Washer and dryer tokens are available in the museum's gift shop.

For information on many more poetic gifts, click HERE!


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