By Jackie Garbarino Museum Gift Shop and Volunteer Manager New shop arrangement. Now the cashier has a proper spot to conduct business, the Kid’s Corner is getting more attention on the north for some reason and the map and book room is also more popular. Moving the baskets and making the postcards easier to browse …
By Jackie Garbarino Museum Gift Shop and Volunteer Manager For quite sometime now I thought it would be educational for the museum staff to go on the bus tour that brings visitors to us from the Cruise Center. August and September are slow months so there are usually empty seats on the buses. Etienne LeBlanc, …
By Jackie Garbarino Gift Shop and Volunteer Manager In for a penny, in for a pound…as long as we have expert help in the house why not steal a bit of their time and a lot of their expertise. All the shop staff: Candianne, Devina and myself sketched out a plan to revise the shop …
By Donald H. Keith Chairman of the Board of Trustees We’re working on a new lighthouse exhibit for the Guinep House. The Fresnel lens has been on exhibit on the second floor for many years, but now we want to combine it with its original “clockwork mechanism.” The problem is, although we have the lens …
By Jackie Garbarino Museum Gift Shop and Volunteer Manager Dr. Don Keith had his hands full with the Molasses Reef Wreck and the downstairs gallery renovation. The AND Construction crew had their hands full moving 12-foot long anchors. But they all persisted as these photos show. Downstairs gallery room BEFORE . . . remember this …
By Donald H Keith Chairman, Board of Directors Keeping up with repairs to the historic Guinep house has always been a challenge. But usually they didn’t involve a major disruption. When I arrived on August 17th to help with long needed work I knew I was in for a busy couple of weeks. It’s been …
By Jackie Garbarino Bookstore and Volunteer Manager We tackled the kitchen this weekend. We still have more to do but the kitchen is looking good. The Home and Garden network has nothing on us. We put in glass brick windows but kept the louvered shutters on the outside to maintain the building’s historical image. Using …
By Pat Saxton Director Last year we had the good fortune to be awarded a grant from the Grand Turk Cruise Center/TCI Government Infrastructure Fund and a most welcomed donation from the TCI Government. Together they are providing the Museum the funds needed to do some much needed and long anticipated repairs to the aging …
By Jackie Garbarino Gift Shop and Volunteer Manager Steven Strom arrived early Saturday morning to view the museum’s exhibit of his famous cousin’s splashdown near Grand Turk in 1962. He grew up hearing stories from his mother and from John Glenn himself of the historic orbit of planet Earth. Mr. Strom said John was enchanted by …
by Jackie Garbarino Shop and Volunteer Manager These pictures tell the story of a magical transformation of the back section of the garden from a mass of weeds and rocks into a green sculpture using plants, trees, rocks, metal and gravel. Conrad Baron designed and is implementing Phase II of the garden with input from …