What is history? I remember the day in Grade 3 when I clicked that History sounded and was spelled a lot like His-story. I know most of you probably made this connection way earlier, but I take a few more clicks than the rest of us so please forgive me. Anyways the more and more I work at the museum the more clicking that happens. History isn't some giant event we're all prepared for. I don't think anyone wakes up aware that that day, they are going to be involved in some life changing event. What we consider history is just when someone is living their lives, in their day, and someone was smart enough to take note of it and learn from it.
Yesterday my little cousin came through the Magrath Museum and was just amazed to see his Grandma on the wall as one of the dancers in the Magrath 50 Year Celebration Program. He couldn't understand why ordinary us deserved to be in a museum because all we did was live. But that's the cool part, we've lived, and we've mattered and we've contributed simply by being here and being apart of Magrath. We take note, and we have a lot of notes. My grandparents stories and histories have been recorded and are on file, and I bet yours have too. We have files and files of stories and stories. Memories from the likes of Nyal Fletcher, Lawrence Turner, Elizabeth Strong. Come find your stories and roots, because not only is history relative, it's even more fun when you are related. And don't forget, in 20 years, someone may think your stories are worth taking note of.
Yesterday my little cousin came through the Magrath Museum and was just amazed to see his Grandma on the wall as one of the dancers in the Magrath 50 Year Celebration Program. He couldn't understand why ordinary us deserved to be in a museum because all we did was live. But that's the cool part, we've lived, and we've mattered and we've contributed simply by being here and being apart of Magrath. We take note, and we have a lot of notes. My grandparents stories and histories have been recorded and are on file, and I bet yours have too. We have files and files of stories and stories. Memories from the likes of Nyal Fletcher, Lawrence Turner, Elizabeth Strong. Come find your stories and roots, because not only is history relative, it's even more fun when you are related. And don't forget, in 20 years, someone may think your stories are worth taking note of.
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