Historical Commission Agenda and Packet 2012 05 16

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Memorandum To: Historical Commission From: Bridget Bacon, Museum Coordinator Date: May 8, 2012 Re: Museum Coordinator’s Report Museum volunteers and I have recently assisted several young people with historical projects. Two were for college projects: one on the history of Louisville, for a class for Red Rocks Community College, and one on profiling a local museum, for Metro State. Also, Louisville Middle School students acted out a story of westward migration for a Social Studies/Language Arts class using the Tomeo House as the setting for their film. An “Amazing Race” style competition was held in part at the Museum for some teams of teens. th Heather Lewis presented her program on Louisville’s history of relocated buildings on May 7. Mary Kay Knorr and Kate Gerard represented the Museum at the April ANFRM Volunteer Group meeting held at the Greeley Freight Station Museum. To give an idea of some of the projects that Museum volunteers have been working on, Debby Fahey has been working on updating the index of the obituary collection, with the goal of the Museum being able to make the index accessible on the website later this year for family history research purposes. Also, Mary Kay Knorr and Kathleen Jones are working on creating brochures to give to Museum visitors with fun scavenger hunt style questions. Robert Sampson is organizing an informal group to start to discuss how Louisville might observe the th 100 anniversary of the shooting death of town marshal Victor Helburg in October 1915. The City has replaced the broken front door latch and is in the process of replacing many of the locks in the Museum buildings to make it possible to use the same key for all of them. R& L Security is generously donating its labor. The City also recently replaced the hanging lamps in the Jacoe Store. The new ones have improved electrical wiring. The 1940 federal census was publicly released last month and the records for Louisville are available for browsing online. They have already proven to be useful for Museum research being done for the City about residences and the families who lived in them. The Brown Bag presentation and discussion in June will be led by Pete Lindquist on the topic of his article in the Spring 2012 Louisville Historian entitled “How Louisville Grew Up: 1880 to 1900.” (Thursday, June 7, 12-1, Louisville Public Library Meeting Room) Museum Visitors Report (these statistics represent visits to the Museum itself, and not inquiries that come in by email or phone): March visitors: 208; April visitors: 164; YTD 626.