By: NICOLAS FIERRO
Salina Post
A new exhibit is now on display at the Smoky Hill Museum and you can see all of the different artifacts the museum has to showcase.
The themes for the different items on display in four exhibit areas of the main gallery include, “Settling the Crossroads,” “Milling at the Crossroads,” “The Good Life” and “A Military Presence.” This is apart of the museum's new exhibit, "Kansas: Battleground for Freedom."
According to the museum this exhibit will feature artifacts such as, part of a log cabin that stood by the Saline River from c1855 to c1930. Gloves made from an otter trapped on the Smoky Hill River. A cupboard that came with the first load of goods and furniture brought to Salina in 1858. Bag, tools, rigging kit and harness for a parachute used for training purposes at the Central States Parachute Loft in Salina, KS.
Furthermore, a WWII Marine uniform and purse belonging to Sylvia H. Gould Bigler. Life Magazine with Shirley Temple on the cover. Sheet music for an Elvis Presley song. A Lassie coloring book An avocado-green crockpot from the 1970s and a Sony Walkman.
The Smoky Hill Museum replaces most of the artifacts in the main gallery every 12 - 18 months.
See the museum's new exhibit, which explores how Kansas found itself a hotbed of political turmoil and a foreshadowing of the coming Civil War.
The museum is open every Tuesday - Friday from 11:00 am - 5:00 pm and Saturday from 10:00 am - 5:00 pm.