Last week, Connecticut-based filmmaker Ben Churchill sent me a link to his recently completed documentary, “Toy Place,” about the Toy Museum located in the Vermont Antique Mall in Quechee. Now, I had been to the antique mall a number of times and never noticed the museum, right upstairs.

But as it happened, I was in the Upper Valley this past weekend (to see the work-in-progress opera Tesla in New York, which I previewed last week; it was intriguing, as is Jim Jarmusch‘s hair, but I digress). So, on the way home, my friend and I stopped in to the mall, right on Route 4.

Churchill’s video conveys what we saw better than I can in words, so check it out:

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Pamela Polston is a contributing arts and culture writer and editor. She cofounded Seven Days in 1995 with Paula Routly and served as arts editor, associate publisher and writer. Her distinctive arts journalism earned numerous awards from the Vermont...