Staff
As the Chapple Museum opens up for another season, it’s looking for community members to loan “home-made” pieces from their own lives to build this year’s display.
“Every year I have a theme at the museum,” explained co-curator Emily Clink, who maintains the museum with her husband, Bill.
“This year the theme is ‘home-made.’
“And so we’re just asking for anyone that has home-made items—it can be anything, furniture, clothes, fancy work [decorative needlework], quilts, anything home-made, preferable as old as possible—to just loan it for the summer,” she added.
Residents already have brought in items, including some fancywork, home-made tools, and a quilt.
“We’re hoping to get more,” Clink said.
While there is no deadline for people to bring items in, Clink hopes to have the display set up nicely for the first week in June when the museum hosts a tea.
Involving the community in putting together these types of displays is one of the ways people become more interested in the museum, she reasoned.
“It’s just kind of a fun way to get people in the community involved in helping with the museum,” Clink explained. “If people start bringing things in like that, then they get interested in how it’s going to get shown, too.
“So anything you can do to keep up interest in the museum, I think, is a good thing.”
For more information about the museum, located within the former general store in Barwick, the Clinks can be reached at 487-2221.
The museum, which kicked off the summer season at the beginning of May, is open Fridays and Saturdays from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. for May and June, and from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. on Tuesdays through Saturday during July and August.
