By Ashley Wedge Ashley Wedge created the display board for William Van Buren for our Baseball Triple L. This past week I created the display board for William “Cool Breeze” Van Buren, with the help of my fellow intern Drew. I think my display board’s making skills are getting better, but we’ll see how they progress. I also was able to assist in cleaning many museum items from mold this week again. I only took pictures of three, but there were many more, both big and small. So

By Ashley Wedge Ashley Wedge created one of the display boards on Bake McBride for our Baseball Triple L. This is quite late but, this week, I scanned a lot of documents which had begun giving me some issues, like what is pictured, but overall was very fun looking through. I love reading old documents. I also had an enjoyable time researching Bake McBride for his display board, which included his baseball cards, and many newspaper articles. I may not know much about baseball,

By Drew Doebelin We are on the final boxes of items to clean that came from the Museum! One of the parts of cleaning all the items is that if they needed to be cleaned, they would have a pink piece of tape attached. A habit I got into was that I would stick the sticker of whatever I was cleaning to my apron as a tracker for how much I had gotten done that day/week, and it was really fun to see my collection grow! Most of the big furniture is done, Ashley and I cleaned a couch

By Drew Doebelin The image of William Van Buren comes from the NLB Museum page for him. Last week I mostly did research and encapsulated a small bit of documents. In preparation for next week's Baseball event, I helped Ashley organize and glue together displays for it. We have a board with newspaper clips of the Buffaloes vs. Stars of Fulton and one for David McBride. Another baseball player from Fulton we initially didn't have a lot of information on was William "Bill" Edwar

By Drew Doebelin I hope everyone is ready for October fun! We have a few cool events happening this month ('Take Me Out To The Ball Game' and Crossroads Cowboy Church 'Wild West Day'), and we are getting closer to moving back into the museum. Woohoo! Last week I did a lot of reorganizing of space. At the back of the research center's binder shelves is a table that has had a whole bunch of items stacked on top and underneath, and I had the urge to clean it. It was absolute ch

By Drew Doebelin Drew Doebelin researching through Callaway County Probate Records My brother Rush Doebelin started volunteering with us two weeks ago, so he's been helping me out on Fridays! He helped me scan two probate records, one of which is related to the Civil War black soldiers project, and also started an excel project that will help the society better access a list of previous purchases and comparison prices from different companies. I mostly did research last week

By Ashley Wedge This week I was able to finish up researching, and helping get ready for the 9/11 commemoration event, as well as assist at the event. It was the first event with the Historical Society I was able to be present at and am looking forward to more! I was very happy to honor first responders and victims in 9/11. I was also able to help create the display board for another event. I have also been able to assist in the folding of many program booklets for events, wh

By Drew Doebelin Last week we finished up all the boards for our three events that happened on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. I was able to help out with some of the firefighter displays, the country store board, and Baumgartner Quarry board. I glued a lot of things! Drew Doebelin at the A Slice of Callaway Event. Jen Doebelin in the foreground, and Barbara Huddleston and Susan Krumm in the background. The 9/11 event with Westminster went very well, I thought it was very well d

By Drew Doebelin Drew Doebelin making photo props for A Slice of Callaway. It was very busy last week and it will be very busy again this week! We had lots of meetings, one was about the final details for the Slice of Callaway on Sunday the 13th, and the one I've been stressing out about for awhile, my mock-presentation about the Callaway U.S.C.T! In the end, I didn't have anything to stress over, everyone was very nice and had really good questions and recommendations for wh

By Ashley Wedge Ashley Wedge and Drew Doebelin work on mold remediation. Cleaning Isaac Newton Sitton's desk from the Civil War Era. This week I researched information about Callaway’s fire department and their history, as well as helping clean items while learning about mold remediation, and learned how to encapsulate documents. Ashley Wedge learning how to clean documents from 1855. I gathered photos and facts about the different fire departments, from horse-drawn wagons to

By Drew Doebelin I got to do my favorite activity this week! Cleaning mold! Drew Doebelin cleaning active mold spores off an old spinning wheel. I cleaned multiple desks and chairs, and the back of our cleaning space is looking more spacious with every item we move into the clean room! I even got to clean two more items with active mold on them. I know it probably sounds weird to say that I like cleaning mold, but it gives me time to look at all the really cool items from th

By Aurora Padget Aurora Padget and Drew Doebelin presenting their work on the Colored Troops of Callaway County. This week at the Kingdom of Callaway Historical Society Research Center I helped decorate the posters and cut and glue stuff onto them, I also helped with the event the following day. These help preserve the history by having people come in and learn about things by reading and listening to presenters. That is all I did to help out. Aurora Padget and author Michel

By Drew Doebelin My classes have just begun for the semester and as I'm going through introductions, it's reminded me of how many cool things I've gotten to do with the historical society so far! Drew Doebelin and Aurora Padget showcasing their display boards at Michelle Brooks' First to Freedom Book Signing and Presentation. Last week Aurora and I finished up the display boards for the Callaway U.S.C.T, and I'm really appreciative of her amazing art skills and the way she o

By Haley Sylvia, Museum Director Ashley Wedge Ashley Wedge is a senior at Westminster College. Her major is History and Museum Studies. She enjoys ancient history and architectural history. She works in the Reeves Library and was a digitization intern for the Reeves Library this past spring. We are very excited to welcome Ashley to our intern team!

By Drew Doebelin Drew Doebelin cleaning an old desk. This week, I've been finishing up the Callaway Colored Civil War Soldiers' display boards with fellow Intern Aurora. She's been doing the visual layout and art on the boards, and I have really enjoyed working with her! It's been so fun getting to see the project take physical form, and I hope everyone enjoys seeing it at the the Triple L on Saturday! On Wednesday we were able to go and clean some more objects, and Haley wa

By Aurora Padget This week at the Kingdom of Callaway Historical Society Research Center I worked on cleaning the mold off of things and scanning more of the fashion newspaper clippings. Artifacts drying after mold remediation. Cleaning the mold off of things helps restore them so they can be put on display for more people to see and it allows us to keep it intact and keep it from rotting or falling apart. This keeps the history of the things alive and more accessible because

By Aurora Padget Aurora Padget scanning newspapers into our digital archives. This week for the Kingdom of Callaway Historical Society Research Center I only really scanned more newspaper clippings for clothing ads. It preserves the history when we can't keep the physical clippings for many different reasons and makes them easy to access. I didn't really learn anything different this week so it was pretty laid back work since I knew what to do. I haven't helped with any event

By Drew Doebelin I finished up my summer classes this week, so I am officially on summer break (for two weeks)! It also means we are even closer to the day that I get to show off all of the fun information I found during my Civil War Colored Soldiers of Callaway project! The Presentation will be held at the First Christian Church in Fulton, MO One final highlight from this project comes from a court document accusing and charging Private George Washington (the third) of the

By Drew Doebelin Drew Doebelin helping move remediated items into a climate controlled space. Last week on Thursday, I got a chance to pack some of the items we have been cleaning into boxes and getting them ready to move back into the museum. I packed a variety of things, from a few small bibles to some church communion pitchers and cups! It was very hot that day, but seeing how much progress we are making through all the items has made me very motivated! Here's to hoping th

By Aurora Padget Aurora Padget learning how to encapsulate frail documents in mylar. This week for the Kingdom of Callaway Historical Society Research Center I learned how to use the copy machine and copied a lot of papers. I also learned how to preserve old documents in their plastic sleeve things (Mylar Encapsulation). These preserve the history by keeping any physical papers safe from getting damaged, and making the copies of papers helps give more access to more people an