A crowd

Here is a crowd of people.

We have our share of crowd gatherings in GroveAtopia, but what is noteworthy about this crowd is that it is in a place where there hasn't been a crowd for a long, long time.

That's because there has been nothing here for a crowd to gather for in a long, long time.  So what's everyone gathered for?

A few days ago you read our museum, the one that is so full of old stuff that it in essence serves as GroveAtopia's attic, was getting some much needed attention.  A couple of teachers from Dorena school spend the last 9 months laboriously going through items big and small, pristine and rusty, identifiable and unidentifiable and piecing them all together into something most museums have.  It's called an exhibit.

Everyone is gathered here for the opening of that exhibit.  There was even a ribbon cutting, complete with giant scissors.

There were somewhere between 50-75 people at the exhibit opening.  The mayor was there.  A few city councilors were there.  The museum board was there.  So was the Historical Society.  And just regular GroveAtopains were there too.

You see, the museum is smack dab in the middle of GroveAtopia's very first and most historic neighborhood, so its neighbors are the homes of regular GroveAtopians.  Curious about the unusually large gathering in their neighborhood, many of them simply walked over to see what was up.  Plus there was barbecue from Big Stuff.  Even if you hate museums, you'd come for that alone.

Now our museum is really a museum.  It has a real live exhibit, just like the grown-up museums have.  We can now proudly take our place along with other small town museums and you simply must take the time to see it.