Time always passes so quickly when I’m in the museum, as if the normal rules of time don’t apply. All of a sudden, it’s 1:30 pm, the library has closed, and I have half-a-dozen small projects still begging for completion. This week we received some much-needed archival supplies – acid-free legal-size file folders for holding deeds, and acid-free bankers boxes and tissue paper for rehousing a lot of textiles and hats, as well as other things. If you'd like to help us catalog, photograph or re-pack items this coming spring and summer, please give me a call or send me an email. The trouble with storing and displaying items properly (archivally, that is), is that it takes money and a lot of space, neither of which are in great supply. It was a day of detail-oriented tasks, including printing new labels for a deed box, a bond trunk and the clock tower pendulum.
It was also a day of general organizing and creating new file folders, as I may not be in the museum before it opens to visitors for the season on Saturday, April 2. Farm Museum Curator George Ashley will be hosting that day as I’ll be out of town.
I also played host today to a visitor, Hatfield archeaologist Randy Daum, who gave the great presentation at our meeting this past week, about his discovery of a late 1600s Colonial village in North Hatfield. He was interested in some of the old maps showing homesteads, in the piece of a brass spoon from the 17th century, and our old deeds. If you have any 17th century (or early 18th century) deeds or artifacts from Hatfield, especially from the Bradstreet area, consider showing them to Randy, as it may help his research. And if you’re looking for a place to keep those items safe and make them available to you and the public for the future, please consider donating them to the Historical Museum.
Check out our upcoming April and May programs on the Events page, as well as new featured artifacts on the Home page!
It was also a day of general organizing and creating new file folders, as I may not be in the museum before it opens to visitors for the season on Saturday, April 2. Farm Museum Curator George Ashley will be hosting that day as I’ll be out of town.
I also played host today to a visitor, Hatfield archeaologist Randy Daum, who gave the great presentation at our meeting this past week, about his discovery of a late 1600s Colonial village in North Hatfield. He was interested in some of the old maps showing homesteads, in the piece of a brass spoon from the 17th century, and our old deeds. If you have any 17th century (or early 18th century) deeds or artifacts from Hatfield, especially from the Bradstreet area, consider showing them to Randy, as it may help his research. And if you’re looking for a place to keep those items safe and make them available to you and the public for the future, please consider donating them to the Historical Museum.
Check out our upcoming April and May programs on the Events page, as well as new featured artifacts on the Home page!
