As part of their community outreach, Marshall County Historical Society Representatives Iris Fry, Retired Executive Director Linda Rippy, and newly appointed Executive Director Jan Garrison attended a Kiwanis Club of Plymouth meeting in January.
Article submitted by Jamie Fleury, The Pilot News Staff Writer
MARSHALL COUNTY — Sandy Garrison gave her first quarterly update to the Marshall County Council as newly appointed Executive Director of the Marshall County Historical Society (MCHS) during their regular meeting Monday.
Despite pandemic challenges, volunteers logged 3,300 hours in 2021. Over 7,000 individuals visited.
The latest exhibit has just debuted on the 150th Anniversary of the County Courthouse. A life-sized clock face is displayed in the Michigan St. window to show how big the clock face is standing next to it. Actual blueprints and keys are included in the exhibit.
QR codes are being developed to display in the windows with a link to the website when scanned so that visitors can take a walk through history at their leisure even if they don’t have time to walk through the museum.
The 2022 Brown Bag Lunch series will begin on March 11 with Historian Josh Dufee: “Goldkette and the Glorious Greystone Ballroom.”
Much to Garrison’s delight, in-person visitors compared the museum favorably to the Smithsonian. “We took that as high praise!”
