Help Needed for the Telegraphy Exhibit

Who is going to step up to the plate and oversee the telegraphy exhibit in the depot. Bob Ford was a great volunteer. He had the exhibit worked up; worked up an explanatory brochure and had batteries set up to power the telegraph. He may have even known a bit of Morse code.

Shouldn’t take much time. Can you wear overalls and put on a conductor’s hat? If so, during Countryfest and school tours we’d call on you to hammer out some code and perhaps show off other aspects of the depot.

And we have a really rare piece of equipment; the small freight wagon used to load luggage and freight off box cars and into the depot; the wagon is the same height to allow for a dolly to roll equipment from the railcars to the depot. It is sitting on the northeast corner of our grounds. In the depot we have two more small pulley carts used for hauling freight.

And we have wonderful barrels used in storing and transporting goods in a day and age before cardboard boxes, pallets and the disposable containers came into common use. Some of the barrels have already been damaged and hauled off.

We need a steward for the depot; to keep those batteries checked out and to watch over the facility.

We have original advertisement wrapping paper from stores which have been out of business for over a century hanging on the walls in the depot and canceled train tickets (check out the Mt. Vernon cancellation stamp on the back side). We need the drapes pulled to keep these artifacts from fading.

We need a steward.

First one up to the plate? Someone let me know you’ll undertake this, and we’ll entrust you with a key to the building.