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Journeys with JohnTravel<br />
As a friend once said—If I go too long without the smell<br />
of jet fuel, I get depressed. So even though 2011 has many<br />
months to go, it is time to think about places to visit in<br />
2012. In the museum’s previous newsletter, we suggested<br />
an adventure to Charleston, South Carolina and Savannah,<br />
Georgia; this idea has met with sufficient interest for us to<br />
begin planning the trip. The tentative date is sometime in<br />
the last two weeks of April 2012—just past Easter and at a<br />
time when should be wonderful azaleas and rhododendrons<br />
in bloom.<br />
I am also looking into the potential of a Southwest train<br />
excursion that will take us to Santa Fe, New Mexico; a visit to<br />
Northern England; and/or flying down to Santiago, Chile.<br />
Keep those suggestions rolling in, as I really have no<br />
preference for destinations and am willing to arrange almost<br />
anything to almost anywhere. I just need to know what<br />
flavor of jet fuel most interests you.<br />
with the <strong>Museum</strong><br />
Carriage tour through Charleston. Photo courtesy of the<br />
Charleston Convention & Visitor Bureau<br />
The Ever-Expanding Native American Exhibit<br />
The Collections Department<br />
was very fortunate to have such<br />
great volunteers while processing<br />
hundreds of objects for the new<br />
Native American cases. Melissa<br />
Beseda helped select artifacts for<br />
the mobile collection case and<br />
helped prepare the beaded bags to<br />
make sure that they would not be<br />
damaged while on display. She also<br />
identified the objects on display and<br />
created draft object labels.<br />
Jo Miles, Peg Granitto, and Andy<br />
Granitto helped prepare the exhibit<br />
surfaces to make them safe to<br />
display the hundreds of Native<br />
American artifacts. Peg also made<br />
hat, dress, and vest supports that<br />
safely display the garments and<br />
make them look their best.<br />
The volunteers and I discovered<br />
that Andy Granitto, Exhibits Curator,<br />
knows how to squeeze more and<br />
more objects into the cases. This<br />
Left: Melissa Beseda helping to select objects in the collection room for the American<br />
Indian Collections exhibit. Right: Miles Miller continues to help select objects for<br />
the new case.<br />
resulted in Miles Miller and I being able to continue selecting more objects for display.<br />
That was the goal for this Native American exhibit, to show our visitors the wonderful collection of Native American art<br />
and artifacts that the museum is entrusted to preserve, research, and exhibit. I hope you all can come to the museum’s<br />
members meeting on October 27, to see the completed exhibition.<br />
<strong>Yakima</strong> <strong>Valley</strong> <strong>Museum</strong> <strong>Newsletter</strong>, Fall 2011 Page 8