Museum celebrates old-time crafts
Local artisans and rural life enthusiasts will demonstrate skills from northwest Missouri’s past during a Nodaway County Historical Society Museum event scheduled for 2-4 p.m. Saturday, June 13.
The museum is located at 110 N. Walnut in Maryville.
Exhibitors are to include Lewis Birkenholtz, who will show his Missouri mules in the open area north of the museum’s parking lot. Indoor activities will embrace weaving and spinning along with a presentation on trapping knives by Jerry Myrtue.
Additional displays will offer a close-up look at an antique trunk brought to this area by immigrant settlers along with various household artifacts from Nodaway County’s early decades.
Those attending can also view new displays at the historic Caleb Burns House and herb garden across the street from the museum and listen to a presentation on rural schools by Linda Ferris at the Hickory Grove one-room schoolhouse, which is located on the museum grounds.
Other upcoming society events include the organization’s annual banquet, set for 6 p.m. Monday, June 22. Reservations are required. Cost is $15 per person.
To make a reservation, call Tom Carneal at 660.582.4955 or email [email protected] by June 15.
During the banquet society members will honor the late Leo Baumli as the group’s latest inductee to the museum’s Stairway of Stars, an exhibit featuring photographs of notable people with ties to Nodaway County.
Baumli, who died in 1997, owned a significant horse and mule operation east of Barnard.
