Last week a co-worker who is currently reading up on the history of her city asked me if I had ever been interested in the town history of where I grew up. This simple question had me stumped. The majority of my life I have lived outside of town, and didn't readily identify with a … Continue reading Conceptualizing Rural History
Community and Relevancy in Rural Museums
The latest issue of Curator: The Museum Journal was recently posted online. This issue contained a number of interesting approaches to issues in the museum field. One article I found particularly interesting was Rhianedd Smith's "Searching for "Community": Making English Rural History Collections Relevant Today." The article can be read online here. Smith's work focuses … Continue reading Community and Relevancy in Rural Museums