Updates

First of all, our newest traveling exhibit has had a great start. We did have a snag when the first full week it was open we had 4 snow days, but all of those classes have rescheduled and we have had a steady stream of kids in the Museum everyday. We've even had more people come in outside of school for this exhibit. Keep it up! If you haven't seen it, it's a fantastic exhibit!

Second, Sandy the Mammoth is catching on fast on Facebook, Twitter, and Tumblr. Stacy Allen, the Secretary of the Lea County Cowboy Hall of Fame, contacted Matthew Gray Gubler from Criminal Minds and he agreed to do a sketch of Sandy the Mammoth which you can see above. That was so awesome of him to do that for us. We're trying to collect various sketches/drawings/paintings/etc of Sandy. What do you think Sandy the Columbian Mammoth would have looked like? If you have an idea, send it to us and we'll post it on Facebook in our Likeness album.

Third, we have an event coming up next week that you won't want to miss.

Riders on the Orphan Train

February 22, 2011 7pm

The free public program, Riders on the Orphan Train, funded by The New Mexico Humanities Council is coming to town. This historical presentation is designed to inform, entertain, and move audiences of all origins and ages. It combines storytelling, music, video with archival photographs and contemporary interviews of survivors, and informal discussion with a question and answer period to bring awareness about this little-known chapter of the largest child migration in history.

That's it for now!