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PreservingLocal HistoryNorth Coast/Lcraine Anderson“I value the history of the community where I grew up,” says Deborah Kohn, volunteer museum president.Mesick museum volunteers keep past aliveBy Lorainc Anderson North Coast WriterMESICK — In many ways, the Mesick Area Historical Museum is this Wexford County village’s attic.Here resides a sleigh once pulled by horses, a relic telephone switchboard, an antique pump organ, a small press with tiny type used by the local undertaker in the 1930s and 1940s to print obituary cards and copies of old Mesick Sun-Pioneer newspaper pages laminated in plastic.It’s also a gathering place for people who treasure old sepia-toned photographs, cream separators, quilts, a Singer sewing machine, pioneer farming and logging era relics and the stories that often accompany them.Museum president Deborah Kohn of Traverse City and some 15-20 rotating volunteers spend many Saturdays here from May through September to showcase some aspect of local history — toys from the past, the nearby Hodenpyl Dam and North Country Trail, local churches,neighboring places Harrietta and its fish hatchery, Buckley, Yuma, and Sherman.“It’s important to preserve the heritage of the people who have lived here, Kohn said.About 400-450 people visit the museum a year, according to museum guest book entries. A common question that Deborah Kohn and other volunteers often field is, “How did Mesick get its name?It's not much of a mystery.SEE MESICK PAGE 2
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Traverse City North Coast
Traverse City, Michigan, US
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