Sunday, May 20, 2012

FEATURE: 'Ingenuity of our ancestors'

120519_SanfordCentennialMuseum_01 Ginger Kruger of Midland, right, picks up an antique agricultural book while cleaning a log cabin with Joyce Wolfgang of Midland, who dusts with a feather duster to keep the displays at the Sanford Centennial Museum pristine Saturday morning in Sanford. "We know what a lot of the things in these displays do because we lived through using them with our parents and grandparents, but I bet generations of people come in here and have no idea," Kruger said. "It's amazing to think of the ingenuity of our ancestors and what they were able to do before we had all the electronics we have today." 120519_SanfordCentennialMuseum_05 120519_SanfordCentennialMuseum_03 A smile gleams from the face of Ginger Kruger of Midland, back center, picks up a little brown jug to show other elderly volunteers as she contiued to dust with a feather duster, cleaning the displays at the Sanford Centennial Museum on Saturday morning in Sanford. "We know what a lot of the things in these displays do because we lived through using them with our parents and grandparents, but I bet generations of people come in here and have no idea," Kruger said. "It's amazing to think of the ingenuity of our ancestors and what they were able to do before we had all the electronics we have today."

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