Today we hosted a van load of friends from Northside Christian Chuirch in St. Louis, Missouri.  It was so great that Rev. Dr. Judith Ridlen brought members of her congregation to see our site.  I was fortunate enough to give part of the tour, and frankly I have not done that for awhile because we have such competent docents.  It was refreshing and fun to get back in the saddle of answering questions and telling our museum story.  Northside is within the denomination of The Disciples of Christ.  I was raised-in my first 18 years of life--in the Disciples Church, and my mom and Doc are very active in the Abbey Road Disciples congregaton in Cape Girardeau--I participate with them when I can.  Doc's father was a pastor in the DOC church for more than 50 years.  It was fun to spend the morning with this terrific group from Northside Christian, and I hope they will come back and see our exhibits in the spring.

Today we celebrated the life of Milton Hecht, 1925-2011.  He passed away on December 31.  At least 38 of his family members gathered at the museum prior to the funeral. What a good looking and sweet group of folks they were.  I was happy that we still had the Christmas exhibit available for them to enjoy.  They all wandered and reunited as family members and visited.  

We are working on the next exhibit schedule for the deep mid-winter and early spring.  We will also be supporting museum staffer, Jessica Reisenbichler, with her honors project for her senior year in the Historic Preservation Program at SEMO.  Jessica will be cataloging German books (she has language skills, also.)  She will be housing/shelving the books in muslin cases, interpreting their data, and getting them ready for digital entry into our catalog.

Take Care,
Carla Jordan