After a very extended hiatus - two years! - I have returned to blog about the doings of History in North Alabama! Lets just say that Grad school leaves no time for anything else. I may drop off the face of the Earth again when I start my Thesis but outside of a little work for Public History I have a bit of a break to possibly post regularly! What?!
For those of you that aren't my grandmother, I am still working at the Cherokee County Historical Museum. Our one disastrous attempt to use interns means that we didn't get any last year or this year. I'm re-picking up this blog because I am now going to be an intern at the museum, instead of just a Volunteer Curator. All of the power and none of the cash. I'll actually be working on Oral histories and I hope to post lots about what's going on with that.
In the two years I haven't been writing a lot has changed. For example, we now have an air conditioner! No more 105 degrees inside the building! Our lovely Pheobe has been kicked off of the program she was on and is only able to come to the museum irregularly. We now have a new docent, Barbara, who is quite nice but very new so we are getting used to her. I actually have a volunteer now too, who is very capable and is helping me get the system together. Kinda. We still don't know everything we have within the museum but we're starting to make progress. And we were able to De-accession a good portion of our broken plows! Downstairs is really starting to look good, the Ambulance is no longer stored there, the truck has left, and our tractor has moved to his permanent spot. (Well yesterday a group was interested in refinishing it so it may leave for that.) Our records are slowly becoming digitized and we're starting to make some connections with the historical community in the state. We're even starting to get some choice donations.
I've learned a lot in the Almost 3 years that I've been at Cherokee County Historical Museum. So much that I decided our entire museum needed a makeover! So in the past few weeks we've been working on re-designing our exhibits. As inexpensively as possible! So, I'll be rushing to do all of that before I finally leave the museum. (Unless they get the money to hire me.) When I finally graduate, which is hopefully in a year! Yay!
Well that's it for this short update. I'll see you all later this week with tidbits about Player Pianos - oh yeah we totally bought one for my mother - and all of the crazy hijinks we get up to in the museum.
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