Photo: Holiday music through the ages

Mary Beth Peter plays Christmas carols and other holiday tunes Saturday on a 1910 upright grand Hamilton piano recently donated to the Carlton County Historical Society. One of the piano’s original owners, Joanne Pearson, was in the crowd Saturday. Pearson gave it to former Cloquet resident Mark Hanratty, who brought it back to Cloquet from Oklahoma on a trailer earlier this year after taking it with him on moves around the country. “It’s extremely heavy so we’re grateful to two men in a truck who showed up with four people in their crew and moved it from the downstairs up the elevator to the upstairs,” said CCHS director Carol Klitzke. CCHS held an open house Saturday with music, crafts, refreshments and real typewriters for typing letters to Santa.