2019 Winter Newsletter

Museum Receives Grant For sometime the directors and staff of the museum have been aware that improvements might be needed in our Website. Few additions or changes have been made in the last three years. There is a lot of history and information on the site that is very good. However, input by our staff to keep the site current has not been taking place. We were made aware that our association with Freedom’s Frontier made us elgible for requesting a grant to update and modernize our Website. After considerable procrastination by our staff, we were pleased that Ann Benton stepped up to do the paper work to apply for the funds. Starting this summer she began to gather the needed information and get questions completed to send to the Freedom’s Frontier. There was great competi tion for the grants and a limited budget available. The deadline was this fall to request a grant. With the help of staff members at the museum, the request was sent in. Several questions and follow up answers and information were provided to the administrator of the grants. But, after several anxious communications, we were told that we were selected. We requested a little over $5,000. We now await the directions from Freedom’s Frontier for the funds and our selection of a Website producer who can take our current site and make it more friendly to our staff. We want to especially thank Ann Benton for her efforts and we will need individuals to be a part of the support team for the site. We also thank Hannes Poetter for his development of our current site and all the hours he put into its origina tion. The past site was done at no cost to the museum, so it has been appreciated. Having an up-to-date site that is friendly to staff is a must for us to attract new visitors, and to help in our com munications with our viewers. Thanks, we look forward to this new development. Larry Lybarger

Red Cross

The photo above must have been taken around 1918 to 1920. It depicts the north east corner of park square. On the west end of the J W Price building there is a banner just above the car roof for the American Red Cross headquarters. It appears that there was a Rusell’s Variety Store just west of Red Cross location. This buggy must have had a hard life as the tire on the left front is absent and the left rear wheel has some spokes missing.

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