Last Friday was our last Spurlock Museum school tour of the spring.  It's always both a celebration and a sadness every May, as you now can concentrate on summer projects, but you also don't get the almost daily "kid fix."  There's nothing like having an excited group of schoolchildren looking at your artifacts for the first time.  It really recharges my battery to see familiar objects through new eyes.

My summer Museum projects this year include completing my part of our fall exhibit on shoes around the world, continuing work on a fall, 2013, collaborative exhibit project with the C-U Spinners and Weavers Guild, creating a new teacher loan kit on ancient Greek coins, and finishing all of the preparation for the next year's special events.  Every summer we say we are going to complete a huge number of projects, because summer is so slow.  We never get them all done, but it's a fun and different way to recharge the batteries before the fall school groups come in, groups who have already begun to set their dates.  Whew!  What a whirlwind!  Come visit us soon!