2023 Spring Newsletter

Data entry continues in full force as we work on getting all our hard copies of accession items in our updated software. A lot of scanning and entering obituaries are being entered also. Ann Davis has been going through each accession item diligently, numbering and access ing value so they can be added to our data base. A big thank you to Diane, Christy, Ann and Leanne for keep ing the keyboards humming. Roger Shipman continues to be a huge asset to our museum with his major talent of cleaning up photo graphs, producing books on all aspects of history and more. If you haven’t checked out his latest creations, come in and purchase these amazing books.

on replacing the huge map that has so many area’s marked on it. We appreciate Phil Reaka sharing his great historical facts with Gordon and I as we travel on this journey of knowledge. QR (quick read) codes are still being worked on as it’s an ongoing strive of information and coding for our visitors to use.

On the agenda for Saturday, May 27, 2023 will be Will Haynes and The Civil War in Kansas. This event is also brought to our visitors for free by a grant from Free dom Frontiers. Come early as we will be open at 10 am for visitors and our event will start at 1:00 Mark your calendars for our 2nd Annual Craft & Mar ket Day on the Square Show to be held in the park square on June 17, 2023 from 9 am to 2 pm. Last year there were over 50 Vendors setup in the beautiful town square park. We appreciate past president and current volunteer Agnes Dillard for starting this event for us. Proceeds from this show benefit needs for the museum and its visitors. Cindy Lou, our event coordi nator expects over 50 vendors this year so you won’t want to miss it. Along with our craft show in the park, we are having a bake sale ran by Pamela Hennigh with Kansas Pioneer. A big thank you to Kansas Pioneer as they will be donating 25% of their sales to the muse um.

Lloyd Peckman, has taken a group of us out to several sites. One site that we will be cleaning up will be the Daganet cemetery south of Louisburg. A Boy Scouts group and many volunteers will be meeting at the mu seum to go out to the site and work on clean-up for the entire day. Hoping to schedule this in June so give us a call if you want to be on the list.

If you haven’t visited our Indian Room, please do so. Gordon has been busy re-arranging, displaying and labeling more items to enhance your Miami County, Kansas knowledge. As technology, larger printers, etc. get better with time, Lloyd and Gordon are working

Roger Shipman’s 1/12 scale model of the Adair cabin located in John Brown park will be on display.

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