Bev Majors is working on the Dairy Month (June) Exhibit. Several years ago, a plywood milk bottle was cut out, and used to display photos. We decided to get a little bit more 'dairy' with it, so watch for a delivery of milk at the first of June. Children (and like -minded adults) can even color their own cow to add to the exhibit!

Barbara Allen is getting ready to launch the History Trunk this fall. The story is centered on the story of Katherine Monson who grew up in Dungeness in the early 1900s, attended Bellingham Normal School, and returned to Dungeness to teach. Students will be able to see Katherine's actual photo album, handle period clothing, and learn about day-to-day life during the last century. Barbara has researched the Washington State Essential Learning Requirements to make this a resource that fits the teacher's curriculum. We are able to use authentic artifacts because we can purchase them from the world's flea market-EBay! This is a trick I learned from the Smithsonian during New Harmonies. They had purchased all the musical instruments for the exhibit from the same place.

There is a board retreat scheduled for June 18th and I will be working on presenting my strategy for exhibits for the next 6 months. Several of these entail technologies that were unknown ten years ago. For example, you can go to groundspeak.com and find that we have a geocaches set up by a Troop 1490 Scout. Over 300 people have searched and found the cache. They write to us to let us know their comments. The caches have to do with Sequim history.

Did you know that over 450 unique hits were logged since April on the website? Another way to expand our collection access will be the installation of virtual exhibits on our site. In 2013, in conjunction with the Sequim Centennial, we will be launching the Celebrate Sequim History Virtual Exhibit. This will allow visitors to view the best of our photo archives from the turn of the century (1900).

It was a week of meetings for me, and little has changed on the height of paper work on the desk. It is somewhat like a bar graph, one week the pile by the printer is high, and then the pile by the desk corner gets higher.