WAIMEA — Martha Greenwell’s “Mouse House” heralds the holiday season in Waimea. The enchanting Mouse Village, hand-crafted by artist Martha Greenwell, is now on display at the Isaacs Art Center through Jan. 7.
The exhibit is open to keiki young and old to visit and share the sights of handmade mice in their miniature shops and homes that Greenwell fully decorated with tiny ornaments, wreaths, candies and her paintings. This year, there is an additional “Mouseville” tableau with rooftop birds peering into the house and enjoying the miniature scene of holiday festivities.
Affectionately known as “The Mouse House,” the exhibit made its first Big Island appearance in December 2005 at the Kona Historical Society when the village returned to Greenwell from Oahu after more than 20 years of being part of an annual holiday tradition at the Queen’s Hospital Auxiliary’s “Festival of Trees.”
All of the artifacts featured in the display are from the attic and tool shed of Greenwell’s in-laws, Frank and Violet Greenwell, of Palani Ranch. It took Greenwell eight years to assemble the village.
The Center is open Tuesday-Saturday from 10 a.m.-5 p.m. There is no charge to see the Mouse House.
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