Art and History Collaboration with High School

Walter, Orval and Lucille spent Tuesday afternoon at the CKHS presenting stories about selected artifacts to grades 7 to 12. The students took notes about the stories that they heard and will write about what they learned. These stories will be presented to the museum to enhance our displays.

Today local artists will spend the afternoon making a presentation to the students. On Friday, students will go to the Poundmaker Interpretive Center to see the area where the 1885 Battle (or Resistance) of Cut Knife Creek took place.


This interchange of ideas is the beginning of a great partnership between the high school and the museum, local artists and historians.

Quilting Divas Give Back

The Cut Knife Quilting Divas are spending Tuesday, April 28, volunteering their time and sewing skills for the museum.

• The flags that we put on the highway signs need a small modification so they can be attached to the signs.
  
• There is a need for more padded hangers to hang the garments that we have at the museum. Each year we are lucky to have volunteers help us make more of these.
  
• As well, the Divas will be constructing garment bags to enclose the bridal dresses that we have in our collection. This will give the garments added protection from light and insect damage.
  

Thanks Lynn, Bonnie, Betty and Lorna!

Student Project Highlights Cut Knife and its History

A local resident, Stephanie Gilchrist, completed an assignment which focused on Cut Knife and area. It takes a while to load because of music files, videos and lots of photos. The link is: http://www.stephgilchrist.com/historyck/
Great work, Stephanie! (She tells me her instructor liked it too! A+ Grade!)


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Sask Tourism Conference

The weekend conference was great. Tourism people are so warm and friendly. I learned a whole bunch about marketing, good governance, the best of the best of tourism in the province at the awards gala event, and internet and media info.
Saskatchewan has so much to offer a tourist. Check out the Saskatchewan Tourism site to see what you can do in this great province. The link is http://www.sasktourism.com/

This and That

Our annual meeting was held this past Monday evening. Good planning made for a quick meeting. We were home early! Yay!

Research has begun on a new project for the museum. Just a hint - they were from the country of the leaning tower before immigrating here...

Author is off to Regina to the Sask Tourism conference this weekend. If only Regina wasn't sooooooo far away...