View source for Bowling Night with Museum Artifacts, September, 2007

this monday will be another First.

the first in the main street museum's monthly "bowling with artifacts"
series. (schedule to be determined...)

join us this monday, the 24th, at lanes and games, sykes ave in white river
junction, 7 pm to 10 pm for bowling!

we will all share the cost of a couple (or more) lanes, get hamburgers,
fries or other treats, and bowl to our hearts content(s). *full credit for
this idea comes from our esteemed colleagues at the museum of bad art in
dedham, massachusetts. hats off to them for realizing that the bowling
alley is the perfect place to understand objects (or bad art) in a
completely new way, in a completely new environment...
the museum curator will bring three rarely seen artifacts --related to
bowling or not-- from the permenant collection for discussion.
look them over, or pretend they dont exist, and just bowl!

[[image:Nixonbowls70.jpg|thumb|Heres a picture, just in case you were straddling the fence on this one... Nixon in the White House bowling lanes, ca. 1970.]]

the artifacts for this month's "bowling with artifacts":
*1) hair of richard nixon, u.s. president.
this framed object comes with a certificate of authenticity and a photo of
nixon with the white house barber. nixon was an excellent bowler. shouldnt
you brush up on Your game? discuss both nixon's legacy and the upcoming
exhibition of artifacts from the watergate hotel and complex in washington,
dc. an amazing sub-collection of objects from this important building will
be accessioned into the museum collection in october. see it all this
coming "first friday" oct 5, with a gallery talk by our visiting research
fellow from washington, dc, david hammond. more info and details on this
event will follow.

*2) oil painting of calvin coolidge
part of our "bad art" series, but in keeping with the presidential theme...
again, kudos to the moba in dedham!

*3) samples of the newly created, but not yet open for public consumption,
main street museum online catalog operating with "wiki" software -- our
"wikilog".

come and add input for this ongoing, open-source catogorization project.
its completely unique in the museum world. again, more on this subject
later!

may it please you, --the management