On Saturday, May 25th, we had our annual George and
Charlotte Gibson Day. It was huge fun and a nice change after a
week of working on the computer scanning photos. I was pretty exhausted when it was all
through though - hosting an all-day party is a lot of work!
Check out
the photos of the day here.
We had
a group of wonderful volunteers to help us with the event. Setting up everything was a breeze and after that we just had to
wait for guests to arrive. The weather threw a little wrench in the works right before the event: it began pouring with rain. We weren’t sure whether that
would bring us more or less guests, but by around 12:30 the wondering became moot
as the sun came back out and gave us a beautiful day.
As I
predicted, it got really busy right around 1:00. Guess what time we said we’d
cut the cake?
Matthew
Lovegrove, the Curatorial Assistant, gave a great presentation on the history
of Gibsons at 2:00. So many people came to watch that we were scrambling to find
extra chairs!
As the event started to wind down, our amazing volunteers helped us to pack everything
back up. Then it was just a matter of getting our Gift Shop back in order and
convincing random passersby to take home the leftover cake.
Thank you
to our volunteers, and to everyone who came to celebrate with us. It
was really neat getting to know all of you, and I hope we meet again! We’d also
like to thank all of our sponsors for their continued support. We are very grateful
for the donation made in memory of Jean Clark. Thank you to Super Valu and Tim
Horton’s for the generous donations of cake and coffee; and to Carol Service for the beautiful planters.
Keep an eye
out for my post next week, another Museum School is coming through so I should
have lots to share.
Until then,
Terri
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