A Blast From The Past
This photo was taken in the early 1900s only a few blocks from the Museum. The dirt track the horse and rider are traveling on is Grand Ave. and the view is looking north. Does anyone recognize it?!
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Museum Manager Nancy Dunn cracks up as Museum Registrar Carissa Baize demonstrates a Disappearing Water trick with good sport Museum Maintenance Tech Yvette Duarte. Good thing that water had vanished!
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Museum Registrar Carissa Baize shows APL Summer Reading Program attendees the scientific secrets behind a Disappearing Water trick, so that they can fool their family members. Like her hat?
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In this photo, everyone (parents and staff too) is experimenting with a Fortune-Telling Fish.
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Contractors Southwest CM started stripping our grass out today in preparation for building our new parking area. Our lawn looks like it was skinned!
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This milk bottle was dug up at the Museum today (7/24/14), and dates from 1937-1940. The name of Artesia Dairy owner B.E. Green can be faintly seen here.
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Southwest CM dug up this intact milk bottle from our Multi-Use building site today (7/24/14). Some of the red lettering is still fainty visible for the Artesia Dairy, Artesia New Mexico. The bottle...
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You never know what you'll find underneath an old house! Southwest CM's crew dug up lots of roots (from the old mulberry tree), mystery pipes, and even some clay deposits.
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Things started moving this week! Part of our sidewalks were removed to make it easier for Southwest CM's heavy equipment to move around.
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Southwest CM was all ready to pour our Multi-Use buiding's foundation and footings when the rains came with a vengeance! After pumping out nearly a foot of water, they were able to get our concrete...
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Southwest CM is finally able to set the forms for our Multi-Use building's foundations after the site dried out!
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Our foundation shines in the late afternoon sunshine.
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The contractors had to use a long-handled squeegee to smooth out the surface of our new slab foundation.
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We had to use a big pump to pour the cement, since the cement truck couldn't get close enough to our foundation. It was pretty cold--note the steam rising from the wet cement!
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