Museum to celebrate March Break

Beginning Monday (March 12), the Fort Frances Museum will be hosting “March Break Madness”–a week-long open house and craft session.
The event, which is part of the museum’s year-long theme of “Bringing heritage home,” will give people the chance to learn how to make a variety of history-preserving keepsakes.
Museum curator Pam Hawley came up with the idea as a way of getting the community involved in the process of collecting information for the town’s centennial history book.
“We are trying to get people to write down their family history and submit it for the history book,” Hawley said. “The activities that we have planned for the week will hopefully help people create something that will be of value to them, as well as us.”
Participants will be learning how to make albums, frames, time capsules–even their own family heirloom.
“We are going to be teaching people how to make family trees,” Hawley noted. “People can bring in their family history and can then create something with appliqué design and wallpaper that they can hang on their wall.
“We think people are really going to enjoy themselves.”
“March Break Madness” will run March 12-17 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., with a drop-in fee of $2. For more information, call the museum at 274-7891.