Day 6- January 25th

I continued working on Box 8.

Someone came in to donate items that her father had left to her when she had died. I got to see how the museum accepts a gift, and the form that needs to get filmed out. Her collection included family genealogoies of the Buterbaugh family in Pennyslvania, as well as yearbooks from Homer City, P.A. It was neat to compare the 1970 yearbook photo of the senior class, to the class of 1980. In 1970, the teenagers were dressed so much more formally, especially the girls. The girls of 1970 all seemed to be dress in plaid skirts and the like, while the girls of 1980 were all dressed in jeans, many of them with Farrah Fawcett bangs. Interesting how fashions can change so much in ten years. I have a friend who graduated high school in 1980/1981, and it made me think, "Oh wow, that's how he and his contemporaries dressed back in the early 1980's." I really do enjoy looking at old yearbooks from a by-gone era.

The other volunteers and I had an interesting discussion about funding. It's a pretty challenging time right now for museums. A visitor brought up how they should put up advertisements for the historical society at the Jimmy Stewart museum, so we can get reverbation off of the visitation from that museum. It reminded me of how much collaboration is stressed at other museums I've worked at to try and survive together.