Museum
Tidings
Early Winter Issue
January 1998
The official quarterly newsletter of the Tehama
County Museum
(WebPage edition)
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
MUSEUM REOPENING
After the Christmas recess, the Museum will open
again on Saturday, Jan. 31st, for regular hours
of 1 to 4 PM on both Saturday and Sunday, with special
weekday tours by special appointment. Call (530)
384-2420
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ANNOUNCING…Take
this column with you to your calendar and make note
of these COMING EVENTS:
FEB. 20, 21 &
22. The BIENNIAL QUILT SHOW. Pat Felthouse has the
application blanks, helpful hands are already available
to put up the racks and install the quilts on Feb.
19th. There will be the usual catalog, lunch will
be available, and WAIT ‘TIL YOU SEE THE GORGEOUS
QUILT PAT HAS MADE TO RAFFLE!!!
A QUEEN-SIZE blue and white pattern will go to some
lucky winner. Board members have raffle tickets
to purchase…see them!!
If you would like to assist in receiving the entries
on Thursday, please come a little before 9 AM. Perhaps
you would rather help return the quilts to their
owners after 4 PM Sunday. If so, stick around. MANY
HANDS MAKE LIGHT WORK!
APRIL 26 th at
2:30 PM. An Afternoon of Chopin as a benefit for
the Museum. This event will be held at Margaret
Bauer’s home where she can use her own piano.
As an added attraction, Faith Bennett and Sharon
Davis will sing lovely melodies. The same program
will be presented on the Saturday afternoon at 2:30
PM as a benefit for St. Andrews Episcopal Church
in Corning where Maggie is organist. Light refreshments
will be served.
JULY 3rd, FRIDAY…Annual
celebration of the Declaration of Independence at
7 PM on the front lawn of the Museum. Music, readings,
and other entertainment with refreshments in the
Bauer Gallery.
PROBABLY THE SECOND
WEEK IN MAY…the presentation of programs to
celebrate Archeology week. Specific dates will be
announced later.
SEPTEMBER 12th
and 13th ….the ANNUAL JUBILEE. There are new
things in store for that event plus the next set
of exhibits to celebrate the Sesquicentenial Birthday
of California. It is a mistake ever to miss this
gala affair.
NOVEMBER 11th…A
repeat of the successful ARMISTICE DAY celebration.
The younger the people, the less apt they are to
know why we have any celebration in the beginning
of Novemeber. This event marks the difference between
an Armistice and a Surrender.
PROBABLY DECEMBER
13th at 2PM will be the ANNUAL CHRISTMAS PARTY and
APPRECIATION for the DOCENTS. The Museum will then
close for the holiday month.
Notice of the resumption
of open hours will be made in plenty of time so
that Docents will be assigned and plans drawn up
for the NEXT year of THRILLING AFFAIRS!
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The 1998 board
have special things they can be in charge of…-(I
know, I know, you are not supposed to end a sentence
with a preposition. . Reminds me of the little boy
sick in bed whose mother offered to read him a story.
She went downstairs and selected a book. When she
got back to his bedroom the little boy wailed: "Why
did you bring that book I didn’t want to be
read TO OUT OF UP FOR?" Count ‘em…FIVE
prepositions!) To continue, Ruth is in charge of
the Gift Shop; Dick C is a history specialist and
liason with other historical clubs; Pat directs
the Docent program, organizes the Quilt Show and,
being a retired librarian, is another history specialist;
Marty is our PR man and liason with civic organizations;
Jeannie is 3rd generation Tehama and steering member;
Richard and Darrell are both Archeologists; Dick
Ochs is also a good PR man and knowledgable local
resident; Margaret steers the programs for the JUBILEE
each year; Betty and Frank lend a cosmopolitan air
to whatever they assist with ...Docents, events,
or whatever. Chris Balogh is the History teacher
and student Docent coordinator.
What are some of
the projects the board is considering? In addition
to the annual events as listed, the first priority
of course is the Annex...See the enclosed twopage
spread. Producing Both an audio tape and video documentation
of local stories, anecdotes, displays etc. to bring
the upstairs downstairs for handicapped individuals.
Repointing the brickwork, window repair and removing
the butternut tree by the front walk. It is too
bad we ever had the time or energy to discover exactly
how to use the nuts for dyeing cloth or making cookies
or something. Butternuts are not native to California,
but go back in history to the earliest pioneers
along the Atlantic coast. But it is in a dangerous
condition now, and we don’t need to have it
topple over onto the Museum! Another worthwhile
project is to catalog all the written materials
we have collected over the years into a research
primary resources. Pat has agreed to organize this
large undertaking. When the Annex is ready, these
materials will have a place in the Conference Room.
The president mentioned that a simple file of 3
x 5 cards would be most useful for those who do
not have an affinity for computers! And then there
are projected improvemen5s to the Gallery. This
is all to let you know that things are moving forward
at your Museum! Come join in on some of these projects
and help it all to go forward faster!
"You follow
the rules, you do what you can, you say what you
must, and you live with what happens." Old
Folk-loric Saying
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ANNOUNCING
We have two mire names to add to our growing list
of life Members:
JOHN & CAROLYN
STEFFAN
CHARLES MARTIN
Anyone can be a
Life Member for $200, and when the notice for Dues
comes around, they have nothing to worry about.
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Dues
And speaking of dues notices …last time the
regular notice was included in the newsletter. All
but 63 of our members have sent in their dues for
this year. But 63 is equal to about one-third of
the membership, so it means we are having to opearte
on a smaller budget than is comfortable. (I didn’t
count in either category the number of complimentary
copies we send to other Museums and such.) Both
knees are bent at an uncomfortable angle, pleading
with you 63 to get your dues up to date …PUH-LEEZE!
After all, you can have a 10% discount on anything
you buy at our Gift Shop with your card! We will
soon have a new book to offer you as soon as it
comes off the press: Little Schools of Southwest
Tehama County, Merril Bauer’s Master’s
Thesis. Come check out what we already have!
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Remember…
"The urge to perform is NOT any indication
of talent!"
...Garrison Keiylor
DID YOU KNOW…
We get more mail in a week than our parents got
in a month. Our parents got more mail in a month
than our grandparents got in a year. Our grandparents
got more mail in a year than our great-grandparents
got in a lifetime. No wonder they had more trees
then.
Since this column,
THIS TIME, is just for fun (Phor Phun?) here are
some more startling statistics (‘er som’pin).
We live in the
Space Age. The other day someone said to me, "Do
you know what astronauts eat?"
I said, "No."
He answered, "Launch meat."
Do you know why
cows wear bells:
Their horns don’t work.
What happens when
you sterilize a cow?
She is decaffeinated.
Why were King Arthur’s
days called the Dark Ages?
Because there were so many Knights.
Why did the little
shoe have so many psychological problems?
Because its father was a loafer and its mother was
a sneaker.
The man went to
the doctor because every time he put on his hat
he heard music.
The doctor fixed everything. He took the band out.
What did the volcano say to
the earthquake?
It’s not my fault.
What did the English teacher
call Santa’s helpers?
Subordinate clauses.
What do you get when you cross
a dinosaur and a termite?
Of course…DYNAMITE!
