Museum NEWS

What’s Been Happening? While much of the collection remains in storage we have not been idle. For the past year members of the board of directors have been working on the extensive subject files which document town history, buildings, historic houses, industries, families and genealogy. Accumulated over more than 100 years the files have benefited from weeding, new folders, and in many cases rearrangement. Books from the original collection of 1913 as well as those accumulated since then have been inventoried, assessed for condition and labeled with accession numbers for future retrieval. Original documents including letters, accounts, and journals, have been gathered into one set of files arranged by name and re-foldered or marked for additional conservation needs. While the majority of the collection, particularly the historic objects, and display cases, remains in storage, we have plenty to work on for now and appreciate the opportunity to make use of this big pause.