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 | | Free Press/Lorie Palmer | | A variety of items from school days past will be on display at the Bicentennial Historical Museum during Border Days. |
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By Lorie Palmer
GRANGEVILLE -- Flint knapping, jewelry design, pine needle baskets, state quarters and school items will all be part of the 2009 museum display during Border Days.
"School Days" is the theme of the Bicentennial Historical Museum's Border Days display set for July 2, 3 and 4.
Not only will a variety of vintage school items such as a lunch pail, desk and books be on display, but the museum will also offer a variety of live demonstrations during the weekend.
"We have had items loaned to the museum from several Idaho County Historical Society members," said museum manager Pam Northcutt. "And we have some fun demonstrations planned, too."
The following demonstrations are set for July 2-4, 1 to 5 p.m. each day:
à Joe White of Grangeville will offer displays of the 50 state quarters. He will be selling some of these displays and is also willing to make custom-ordered displays.
"Sometimes people have a frame that matches their decor and they want that for their quarters," White explained.
White is retired and has lived in Grangeville since 1997. His past includes work in engineering and the geothermal industry.
à Grangeville jewelry maker Holly Cox will be making jewelry and displaying and selling her handmade items.
Cox has instructed a variety of jewelry design and making courses through Lewis-Clark State College and says she first became interested in jewelry art when, as a little girl, she played with a tin of her grandmother's buttons.
Cox will work on jewelry as people walk through and she she said she will welcome any questions.
"I will also be selling my Shea butter lotion products, made with all-natural ingredients," Cox said.
à The show will also feature local pine needle basket artists Nancy Gorney and Thelma Landes.
Handmade ponderosa pine baskets, woven together with artificial sinew, will be available for viewing as well as purchase.
Gorney and Landes learned their basket weaving skills from Instructor Robin Quintal of Harpster.
à Flint knapper Bruce Ctibor of Kamiah will demonstrate flint knapping. Flint knapping is the process of making stone tools -- arrowheads, projectile points, hand axes, etc.
à Eldene Wasem, thanks to the help of her son, Vaughn, will present a continuously-running slide show of the Border Days queens, past and up to present, during the three days. In addition, the 4x6 pictures of the queens will be on display at the museum.
Last, but not least, join Carm Spencer for her annual tea party on July 2, 3 and 4, beginning after the parade around 2:30 p.m. until 5 p.m., located in the museum's basement. Attendance is free and visiting is required.
The museum is located on 306 North College and is open on July 2, 3, 4 from 1-5 p.m. For information contact Northcutt at the Bicentennial Museum, 983-2573.
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