A lot of our friends assume that the winter is the slow season for us at the historical center. I like to think of it, however, using the metaphor of the duck on the pond. Everything above water is nice and calm like nothing is going on but the feet are just paddling away underwater.
Right now, the staff of the firearms museum, in tangent with other departments, is working on an inventory, verifying some paperwork for regulatory matters, working on label copy, and updating our own internal records for the objects in our collection.
The next few weeks are going to busy for me, personally, as I go to a gun show, present at Fourth Friday, and then head to meetings of a board on which I sit. The gun show is the Las Vegas Antique Arms Show at the Riviera Hotel (Jan. 16-18). Fourth Friday (Jan. 23) is a Winter event at the historical center. This month the focus is on the Firearms Museum. Following that, I am heading to Cheyenne for the Mountain-Plains Museums Association mid-winter board meeting (Jan. 29-31).
Should be fun!
Cheers,
Dave
