They called it an intermission party'' and it marked the closing of the Georgia Mountain History Museum in Gainesville's neuvo-architecture old fire station. All the materials in that old museum will now be inventoried and evaluated and prepared to go into the $4-million building for the new Northeast Georgia History Center being built on the Brenau University campus.
For those of you not aware of it, this region has a very rich history and Gainesville's old museum has a rather extensive collection of artifacts and information explaining that history. There was information about the Indians and early settlers; a room on General James Longstreet; the textile industry and the poultry industry; a collection on the black community', information on medicine, old telephone equipment, fire fighting. And a magnificent collection of FZ Dodd memorabilia, from the creator of the comic strip Mark Trail. There's a lot more, but that gives you an idea.
Most of that will go forward to the new building, but the new History Center is going to be much more than just a museum. It will tell us about our past, and what we need to take with us as we pass over the watershed. And, hopefully, we will move into a better world because of what we have learned.
This is Gordon Sawyer, from a window on historic Green Street.
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