Tours & Meetings

Today started out with a bang. I pulled up to the Museum this morning, only to find that our first Middle school tour was already standing at the locked front gates waiting for us. They were not scheduled to come for another hour. (But that's okay we love surprises!) The team and I quickly went inside and started to unlock and turn everything on. I was sent outside to show the school kids the Miles Goodyear Cabin, while everyone else quickly got prepared for their tour.

 

The Miles Goodyear Cabin was built in 1845 by Miles Goodyear.  It was the first permanent house built by a white man in the state of Utah. Miles called it Fort Buenaventura meaning "good venture". Miles was married to an Indian woman named Pomona. Together they had two children.
James Brown later bought the cabin and the land that Miles owned for $1,950.00 in gold. The Brown family lived in it for a few years, then sold it to Amos P. and Minerva Leontine Jones Stone. The Stone family lived in the cabin eventually turning it into a black smith shop. In 1926, a Daughter from the Stone family, donated the cabin to Weber County Daughters of Utah Pioneers for preservation.  (Want to learn more?  Call and make an appointment for a tour or just walk in.)

After my tour, we split the group into two and gave them a tour of the inside of the museum. I decided to tag along and learn more about the artifacts that we have in our museum.

(Middle School taking a tour of the Daughters of Utah Pioneer Museum. )

(Some Students taking an interest in the musical instruments that the museum holds. )

After the tour was done we had a board meeting with the presidency and all the camp leaders. We went over what activities we would be putting on in the museum this summer and gave out assignments on who will be handling what. We went over our plans to draw in more visitors to the museum and much more.

(Meeting at Daughters of Utah Pioneer museum. )

After the meeting I went back to my book project. I am pleased to report that I have documented the last of the known books that have numbers assigned to them, meaning that all the books that are already in the computer system have been located.

Tomorrow,  I can start in on the next step of the project. That is to give all the books that do not have a number a number. I can then document the name of the book with the number it was assigned to, and plug in the location of where to find it. After that is done, I will organize all the books onto shelves, so that guests can easily find and enjoy the many treasures the museum has to offer.