MCHS

I just got back from my first visit with the Marquette County Historical Society (MCHS)! I worked mostly with Joanie, an older lady who led the group today. Also there was her husband (I've already forgotten his name!), MCHS president Greg and his wife Mary, and a few others who trickled in and out the few hours I was there. The people who I met today were all at least in their 70s.

The historical society consists of a historic house, built in 1902, along with a big storage facility they use as a museum and a recently moved schoolhouse that is under repair (John Muir's family attended there). Inside the house, they have period furniture and a variety of artifacts from Marquette county from the past hundred years or so. Right now much of the house is being reorganized, they recently emptied out the attic of things that had been stored for the winter. This summer I will be helping reorganize much of the clothing, re-bo

xing it and taking inventory along with clean and organize the rest of the house and exhibits.

First thing we did today was some office work, the ladies worked through the mail and membership dues while I made some copies.

I helped move a fainting sofa up the tight staircase into one of the bedrooms, and then we worked on getting the museum area ready.

Coming up on the 11th of June, they are having the annual Strawberry Ice Cream Sociable, which I will be missing. We were pulling out exhibit items and finding out what was still needed for the Sociable. Next week we will doing some more of the same, and hopefully I will get to do some inventory!