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Close your eyes and picture yourself back in time, sitting in a longhouse nestled in the woods, listening to an old lady tell you a story filled with exciting turns and twists. Imagine you can actually smell juniper and hear the songs of birds nearby. That’s the experience we hope to create in the museum’s local history gallery.
With a grant from the Outer Banks Community Foundation and individual donations, work will begin this winter to transform the current long house exhibit so that it creates an “adventure” for visitors. In addition to motion activated “surprises,” the back wall of the gallery will display a 3-D forest scene, hopefully making individuals feel they have stepped into an early Native American village.
Our amazing in-house artist, Amber Roth, will design the wall murals and “attachments” for the 3-D wall and Education Director, Barbara Miller, will restructure the full-wall exhibit in the gallery. As always, we will also be partnering with our wonderful team of volunteers to carry out the project. For example, we need to convert one of our “young” female mannequins into an old lady. No problem: we called on artist and long-time museum supporter, Helen “Cookie” Kennedy to help us work some magic. David Iberra, another friend of the museum, will dismember the mannequin, and we’ll box up the torso and hands and ship them off to Cookie in Arizona. We will also need period clothing for the mannequin, and another steadfast volunteer, Pat Lysell, has agreed to take on the challenge.
