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I won’t quite say events are a highlight of the job – they’re a lot of fun, and a big part of how we connect with people, but they are also a lot of work and a lot of stress. …

January 2022: Danielle, a teacher at Adam Robertson Elementary School, asked if we can revise our popular “Shaping Our Valley” program for her class. The program was designed for Grade 4; she teaches Grade 7, and wanted us to focus …

Messing something up the first time around happens a lot more often than you think. For example, a couple of years ago I created a school program that was supposed to help Grade 4 students trace a family’s history through …

(But you didn’t) Back in the spring of 2020, we were dealing with the immediate impacts of the pandemic, trying to figure out how to open the museum safely, how to connect with audiences we couldn’t connect with in person, …

Back in about 2010, we were doing a lot of research for an exhibit on Creston’s military history (more on that later). In the process, we learned about Jack Hall, a veteran of the Canadian Army in World War II …

The logging arch is definitely a one-of-a-kind object, and that’s partly why it got so much attention going through the parade last year. But for the most part, a lot of what comes into small community museums is pretty standard: …

In twenty-five years of working at the Creston Museum, it’s really only happened once (well, maybe twice, if you count the time Derry our Model T quit part way through and we had to push him…but that was really just …

Okay, so yesterday I told you about how a little article on Creston’s wacky time zone gets my phone ringing every time someone, anywhere, does something with their own time zone. That’s fun. But the real highlight of the job …

Speaking of crazy stories, the one that crops up most often is the local time zone. Back in about 2009, a newly elected Town Councilor announced that she was going to ”fix” Creston’s time zone. Within what felt like about …