And they're here to stay! (Atleast until December 28th that is).
The Hackley and Hume Historic sites is in the middle of holiday decorating in preparation for their Holiday tours. Many volunteers and community partners have been hard at work to make the homes festive and ready for guests to enjoy come December. The kick off event for the H&H Holiday tours is November 30th from 4-8pm. If you're interested in volunteering for the Kick Off Event please email Gwen at [email protected] Other dates to volunteer are: December 1st 1-4pm December 7th 4-8pm December 14th 4-8pm December 21st 4-8pm December 27th 4-8pm December 28th 4-8pm If you're interested in volunteering for any of the date above please contact Gwen at [email protected]!
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When I think of Summer, I think of Camp. I spent a good portion of summers as a child at my local YMCA Camp and as a young adult in college, I made a summer career of working for the same camp. Camp builds confidence, creates long lasting friendships, and gets kids out of the house and away from the TV.
So I am so excited that the Museum offers many opportunities during the summer for children to spend a week at the Museum. We offer two fantastic camps during the summer: STEM Camp which is a science, tech, engineering, and math style camp. Plus: Enviroworks, which is another day camp aimed to help participants learn about science and history through various crafts, activites, and games. We are always looking for volunteer camp counselors to help with these awesome camps. If you know someone who may be interested in volunteering as a camp counselor and is 15 and older, please contact Gwen at [email protected] or by calling the Museum's main line. The Volunteer Appreciation Dinner will be on August 14th from 5-7pm (dinner to start at 5:30pm). We will be hosting the dinner at the Lake house again this year. Be sure to mark the date on your calendar and email me if you have any questions! Watch for invites in your mailbox sometime in late June! "The Show Must Go On" Theater exhibit is also opening May 11th! This is an exhibit that celebrates 35 years of the Muskegon Civic Theater. Be sure to come check it out! May 18th 9-11am will be our 3rd ASD Sensory Saturday. This is a program that caters to families who experience Autism or other sensory disorders. If you are interested in assisting with this program please email Gwen at [email protected] for more information. May 25th tours are free for Muskegon County residents at the Hackley and Hume historic sites! DON'T FORGET Memorial Day all of the LMC sites will be closed. Enjoy the holiday! The Hackley and Hume Victorian Tea will be on June 15th from 1-4pm. You can get your tickets now here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/victorian-tea-tickets-58604287000 If you are interested in helping with the event contact Gwen. For more happenings at the Museum, be sure to check out the website at www.lakeshoremuseum.org! STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) seems to be every where nowadays, and for good reason. Despite what I believed in high school: that I would never use any sort of math or science in my adult life; not only has math and science weaseled it's way into my adult life, but so has technology and engineering.
It seems to be a hot topic for Museums and other cultural institutions, with new programs and exhibits challenging the minds of both young and old. The best thing about these programs and exhibits is that you don't know you're learning about... say, technology. All you know is that you are building a bridge from legos and you need to find a way to make the bridge stay up when weight is added to it. That is what I love about the Museum's new STEM Center. The center is located in what was "The Voices of Muskegon." Last Friday the Museum held it's Sneak Peak open house where visitors young and old could build parachutes, windmills, create erosion in a water table, and construct lego bridges that could hold themselves up when weight was applied. In addition to those activities, there is also a maker's station and soon new exhibits that all center around STEM. When the center is open for good it will be open to the public there will be at least one staff member or volunteer manning the center to answer questions or help guests with activities. If you're interested in doing STEM, contact Gwen and get signed up to help out in the STEM Center! FINALLY! The sun is shining in the office window today and it feels glorious! I am happy to say that spring is just a few days away. And it seems that with warmer weather comes more events and activities! Which means more opportunities for us volunteers to do what we love: VOLUNTEERING! If you missed our last get together. Here is the low down: We got together to meet each other! For those of you who don't know, my name is Gwen and I have (up until recently) worked at the museum's Michigan's Heritage Park for the past three years as the Program Assistant. With the park's closure I have moved down to Muskegon to serve as the Volunteer and Safety Manager. At the Meet and Greet I had the pleasure of meeting many of you and we also shared some new happenings at the museum like the new STEM Center. So what does this mean for all of you? Really this means if you haven't already been hearing from me you will start hearing from me. But, if you work with Jeff in Archives, or Erin and Aaron at the Hackley and Hume Homes, you will still work with them and they will still serve as your supervisor. My job is to streamline our volunteer programs, address concerns, keep track of volunteer hours and manage the overall program. Please feel free to contact me with any questions, comments, or concerns. I am very excited to get to know you all more and can't wait to learn more about what you do for the museum and in your daily lives. Thank you for being part of the LMC team! Volunteer News: Emergency Contact Info Updates
Events: March 21st 6:30pm-8pm Lecture Series: Great Depression – Part 3 March 23rd 10:00am-12:00pm ASD Sensory Saturday March 27th 6:00pm-7:00pm Muskegon’s Blue Economy Panel April 5th 11:00am-3:00pm STEM Center – Sneak Peek! April 19th 5:30pm-7:30pm Friday Family Fun Night: STEM For a complete calendar and information click here. New Year: New Opportunities! By Gwen, Volunteer Manager I have two resolutions this year: 1. Be More Active 2. Increase Community Participation at the Museum When I say "Be More Active," I mean I want to be healthier this year by biking more often, but being active doesn't always mean exercise. It doesn't mean running miles, going kayaking every day, or taking up cross country skiing (although all of those things would be great). It can mean many things, like having an active family life, being active politically, being active when it comes to nutrition, or being active in the community. So perhaps you didn't set a New Years Resolution, but I invite you to be more active in at least one way: The Community and you can do that very easily by volunteering. Let me push further, by suggesting that you volunteer for the Lakeshore Museum Center. Now at this point you may reading this and saying to yourself "Why should I volunteer for the museum?" or if you're a parent/caregiver: "Why should my child volunteer for the museum?" According to Volunteer Match (www.volunteermatch.org) , an online volunteer recruitment site, there are 20 reasons you should volunteer! YES 20!!
And for #20, the website says "Your favorite reason," because we all volunteer for different reasons. So ask yourself not "Why should I volunteer?" but rather, "Why would I volunteer?" Interested in learning more about volunteering for the Lakeshore Museum Center? Contact Gwen at [email protected] or visit our website at www.lakeshoremuseum.org (Or April Snow for that matter) New Chicks! Yes indeed we are adding to our family of chickens. This season we will be adding a Brahma, Jersey Giant, a Buff Orpington, Rhode Island Red, and a Silver Laced Wyndotte. They all sound like very exotic chickens, but each one was prominent in the 1900s and even earlier. Interested in learning more about the history of chickens in America? Check out this great article on "Hen Feaver" which was started by Queen Victoria in the 19th century. http://theplate.nationalgeographic.com/2015/08/05/the-forgotten-history-of-hen-fever/ April Showers also brings.... The Park Opening! We open April 31st at 9:00am!! Below are all the events and Make and Takes we have scheduled this year. Get them on your calendar! Events and Big Programs June
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Make and Takes June
Which event are you excited for the most?? Comment below! The sun is shining into the park office today and it gives us hope that the weather will continue to grow warmer. The chickens are quite happy, because warm weather means longer time outside! What's coming up for March? March 12th from 6:30-7:30pm, we will be holding our third and final speaker event. “Sojourners and the Single Girl” Local historian Marjorie Viveen will be sharing a presentation about West Michigan fur trader, Rix Robinson, and his fur trade crew of 1830. This should be a very interesting presentation. For more information, contact the park at (231) 894-0342. This month we will start looking for new youth volunteer recruits. If you know someone that will make a good addition to our team, connect them with the Lakeshore Museum Center website or directly with Gwen via [email protected]. The due date for new applications is April 13th. If you haven't turned in your new measurement sheets... Do that soon! Wendy and Melissa will be visiting the Living History Show in Kalamazoo mid march. This event is where a large majority of our costumes come from, so the more information we have on sizes the better! Below you will find a survey to fill out in preparation for the season. We're so excited for this summer and hope you are too! See you soon! This recipe comes from the 1887 edition of the White House Cook Book. Now, this isn’t actually a Valentine’s Day Recipe. At the time this book was written, Valentine’s Day was not as popular a holiday like it is today. However, the name of this treat: “Maids of Honor” sounds like something that would compliment this holiday, so we’ll give it a whirl! If you try out the recipe, be sure to tell us how it turns out! Maids of Honor "Take one cupful of sour milk, one of sweet milk, a tablespoon of melted butter, the yolk of four eggs, juice and rind of one lemon, and small cupful of white pounded sugar. Put both kinds of milk together in a vessel, which is set in another, and let it become sufficiently heated to set the curd, then strain off well-beaten eggs, and lemon. Line the little pans with the richest of puff-paste, and fill with the mixture; bake until firm in the centre, from ten to fifteen minutes." Translation (to the best of Gwen's ability):
Using a cup cake tin or individual tart tins, line each tin with pastry. Heat both milks in a heat safe bowl or pot over another pot of hot water. When the mixture begins to curdle, strain into a separate bowl. Set aside to cool slightly. Mix egg yolks, sugar, butter and lemon in another bowl together until combined. Mix the egg yolk mixture into the milk slowly, stirring continuously so as to prevent the egg from cooking. Once both the milk and yolk mixtures are combined, pour into the tins. Place in oven for 25-30 or until firm. In January we held two snow shoe Saturdays and it was a major success. Lucky for us, despite Michigan's unpredictable weather, we had snow on both Saturdays. There was hot chocolate and cider served in the Farmhouse and the Logging Shanty and both buildings were set up as they are in the summer. Our next snow shoe day is February 10th from 9am-11am. The Fur Trade Post will be open with a nice toasty fire plus hot drinks. Here's hoping there's snow! |
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