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August 21, 2016
WOLF CREEK HERITAGE MUSEUM NOTES by Virginia Scott MUSEUM HAPPENINGS A busy week at the museum. On Wednesdays, the core team is continuing the busy cleaning and sorting thru our work area. We have found lost items and discovered others. Amazing how you think you have following proper procedures and discover that didn't happen on this item. We laugh and call it job security. It is always fun during the summer when families return for reunions or just to visit their hometowns. We have had visits from Ed Babitzke and Dan Becker and his family this month. Many others have visited researching their family histories. REMINDER: Carol Gifford's quilts will be on display thru September. Plan an day trip to visit our four county museums and see what great local exhibits and history we have in this corner of the Panhandle. I will be venturing down south to an arrow dedication in Tohoka this week. We are almost completed with this project. It has been very interesting learning the history of the relationship of the early settlers, the Indians, and the military with these arrows as reminders of our past. HISTORICAL MUSINGS In a 1914 issue of the local paper, a gentleman made the following observation: "One passed the window (of a shop) a moment ago, through which we saw a wart on the left hind leg of a perfectly strange lady. That does seem a little informal for even these rapid times. In our grandmother's day no lady would show the wart on the southwest quarter of the east half of section 4, range 6, to a gentlemen without at least the formality of an introduction. But now-we certainly are going some." This is the first time I have read a description of a woman using land measurements. "After God created the world, He made man and woman. Then to keep the whole thing from collapsing, He invented humor." -Guillermo Mordillo Have a great week. |
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