We welcome another year of new and old museum activities as 2004 begins. I celebrated my 11 year anniversary at the museum on November 1. On December 6, I attended a luncheon of the Truckee Meadows Quilters. I had been invited to attend as the Museum Association was one of the recipients of the proceeds from this group’s annual quilt show, held each September in Reno. With the permission of club members, the Museum Association will add their gift of $1,250 to the building addition fund. During the luncheon, a woman came up to me and said that when one of her children was younger, she accompanied the child’s class on a field trip from Reno to Ft. Churchill and the Churchill County Museum. While at the museum, this woman was so enamoured with the historic quilts the museum had on display, she was inspired to begin quilting herself! Another woman at the luncheon told me how much she had learned while viewing the historic quilts when members of this club came to the museum on a Saturday to view the quilt collection and help museum staff reroll the quilts for storage purposes. These comments were a great confirmation of the educational power of the museum’s exhibits and programs. We can never know how we might reach a child or an adult and inspire them to learn more about the past. |
Jane Pieplow, Director |
Museum staff members were most surprised to receive a visit from U.S. Senator Harry Reid on December 8. The Senator, a history buff himself, scheduled a quick trip to the museum while he was in town visiting CC Communications and grade schools who were reaping the benefits of his joint funding that provides bottled drinking water to the schools. Diane Gauthier-Novak was working the front desk that morning, and at first was alarmed when the Highway Partol car pulled into the parking lot. Another car arrived containing two serious looking men in dark suits (Secret Service men). Finally, Senator Reid and his aids arrived. During his tour of the museum, the Senator was very impressed by the size of the museum and the scope of its collections. He purchased an issue of In Focus and was pleased to see we had the book he had written about Searchlight stocked in our bookstore.
Finally, this issue of MuseNews contains information on our upcoming public lecture series and teacher in-service class, plus a reminder to make your quilt block for the quilt we will create for our annual spring raffle.
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