Today, in hopes of helping cope with the disappointment of no Blossom Festival, we bring you an assortment of events! Unfortunately, film footage and photographs of events other than the parade are a little scarce, but we’ve found some! Let’s …
Parade Day!
It’s May long weekend, which normally means – Blossom Fest! And today is Saturday of the May long weekend, which normally means – Blossom Fest Parade! That’s not going to happen in real life – so we’ve combed through all …
Museums and Climate Change
Today’s Museum Week theme focuses on climate change. Did you know this is a thing for museums? It is – actually a kind of huge thing. It varies from one museum to another, of course, but the ways museums in …
Museum Moments
Today’s Museum Week theme is “Museum Moments.” We hope you’ll tell us about some of your best moments visiting museums. I can tell you that working in a museum is full of best moments. One of my favourite examples: the …
Who’s Bored? (an invitation)
I think I literally just heard a whole bunch of hands shooting up. Today’s Museum Week theme is “Together” – so let’s get together! Safely and distancedly, of course. We are working hard to put in place all the measures …
Culture In Quarantine
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 …