That’s today’s theme for Museum Week. We were talking about how me might explore that idea in these Daily Dose of History posts, and Alyssa, who wins the Brilliant Crown this week, observed, “Meme culture has certainly become quarantine culture …
Heroes for Museum Week
It’s Museum Week! You might not have even known there is such a thing, but there is, and it starts today, and we think it’s perfect to roll into our Museum At Home / Daily Dose of History stuff that …
Hold Your Own Bird Fest!
It is really too bad that the Bird Fest had to be cancelled this year. All the expert speakers, photographers, tour leaders, and more promised to be, once again, an outstanding experience. But there’s still lots you can do to …
A Bird History
In an ordinary world, I would be getting ready to give a guided walking tour downtown to a bunch of people here for the Creston Valley Bird Fest. Unfortunately, the world is not ordinary. So let me tell you, here, …
Celebrating VE Day
The armistice ending the Second World War was signed on 7 May 1945, but the celebrations everywhere – including Creston – continued on to the 8th, and May 8 was officially declared to be VE Day. Today, on the seventy-fifth …
Local Service Stories
No investigation of the impact of World War II would be complete without giving some idea of what “the boys” – and girls – were doing to inspire the fundraising and the rationing and the collecting; what events the people …
Managing in Wartime
Day five of our week-long look at the impact of the Second World War focuses on the war on the home front. World War II was, in every respect, a “total war:” Total in the sense that it was fought …
Skills From Home
Serving in the military was, as the recruiting posters pointed out, a great way to gain new skills. But, from the recruiters’ point of view, it was even better if they could find young men and women who already had …
Fundraising for the War
While the first recruits were signing their names to their attestation papers, others in the Creston Valley were mobilising to undertake the endless fundraising that the war effort required. And it was, quite literally, endless: every week, for six years, …