INTERACTIVE EXHIBITS

New exhibits slated for the May 1 opening of the Bushwhacker Museum include a season-long temporary exhibit on actress Alice Ghostley (see Page 3) and the first of several planned "inter­active" exhibits, incorporating the actual telegraph key from Nevada's old railroad depot. Visitors will be able to sit and tap out a message and see what it was like to use this early form of communication. There is a Morse Code guide sheet to help visitors, and they will be able to transmit copies of famous telegrams, such as the SOS from the Titanic.
All of the interactive exhibits will be accompanied by interpretive panels, informing visitors about the individual exhibits at several levels. An­other of the new exhibits is a set of school desks and a blackboard where visitors can sit and try to work through lessons that an eighth-grade student would have confronted. They can be surprisingly difficult.
A new exhibit on joinery, or the way carpenters put things together, also is ready. Examples of the different kinds of woodwork are available for people actually to take apart and see how they are put together.
"Flips" are also to be used on some exhibits this year to engage the Museum's visitors. A flip is a placard in front of an object that asks what that particular thing is or is used for. A visitor tries to figure it out and then "flips" the placard to reveal the answer underneath.

DOWNTOWN EXHIBIT - The "washing machine" illustrated below is one of the features of an exhibit being set up in the windows of Renwick Insurance Agency on the west side of the square. Entitled "You've come a long way, baby," the exhibit highlights the earlier lives and times of women, the appliances they used in their homes and in their jobs in offices and elsewhere.
The washing machine ad is from the 1908 Sears Roebuck catalog. The price of only $ 1.93 shows how much the value of money has declined.

Our ability to rive exceptional value In washing machines, to supply your wants in any style washing machine which have proven satisfactory In the hands of the user, could not be better proven than In this Quick and Easy washing Machine which we ofter you at $1.93 . The Quick and Easy W. ash ing Machine is a very high class, open tub washer, a much better machine, made from better materials than the machine of this type sold by anyone else. Its wood sides and ends are 13-16-inch thick and it has a galvanized sheet steel bottom. It has a better bottom rub board and a better made rubber than will t>e found in other 'machines of this type and it is finished throughout in an attractive manner. The cleats on the bottom rub board and on the swinging rubber are carefully rounded and are guaranteed not to injure any fabric washed in this machine. It stands 24 inches high from the floor to the top of the tub, and the tub measures 13 inches deep in the center, 20 inches wide outside and 31 indies long'Outside the end pieces, and it Is provided with a wringer compartment. The machine is handsomely painted, ornamented and varnished .'jthe legs being finished in natural wood.
For a very low cost washer and yet one which washes the clothes by the recognized principle of rubbing them, a machine which will handle the very dirtiest garments and cleanse them perfectly, we can recom­mend this machine; but Before you order we would like to call your atten­tion to our wonderful "NEW-WAY" Lever Washing Machine. Illustrated and described on this page, in which the same principle is applied, though its method of operation has been improved upon, making it easier to operate and a much more convenient machine. However, if the Quick and Easy machine will serve your purpose, if you want an open tub washer of strictly first class construction, and better than any machine of this type ofTered by any' other firm or Individual at home or elsewhere and sold at a very low price, by all means order the Quick and Easy Washer at our $1.93 price. It is shipped from the factory in Southern Michigan.
No.   32K733O    Quick   and Easy Washing Machine.

Nevada High School senior Molly Ferree's photo exhibit of Nevada's Victorian Homes has proven to be a popular addition to the Bushwhacker Museum. See ARTICLES page for more details.

Osage Indians

Against a background painted by artist Ed Koski are displayed an assortment of pre-Osage and Osage artifacts, ranging from archaic spearheads to trade goods.

Ed Koski's maps of Osage Territory and its placement in Vernon County

Military History

Exhibits devoted to Vernon County Military history include artifacts on the Spanish-American war, the Mexican border wars, World wars I and II, and the Korean War. 

World War II

Hornback Home Display
A permanent display of the circa 1900 home of Nevada Doctor Hornback.

The latest addition to the Vernon county Historical Society and Bushwhacker Museum, is the Hornback family home.  The display features Dr. Hornback's office, and first floor of the family home.  These rooms are open for viewing at the Bushwhacker Museum location in the Nevada Public Library facility.