Tongass Historical Museum Special Exhibit Opening – Solving Problems, Telling Stories: Handcraft in a Harsh Environment
As Ketchikan Museums continues exploring our community’s unique identity through conversations within the community and delving into the accounts and images that carry our history, one symbol keeps emerging: hands. The logger’s wooden handshake, the nurse’s healing touch, the salt-cured scars of the fisherman, the baker kneading elastic dough, the dexterity of an elder sewing beads—These are able, active, working hands, and they created our town.
Our ability to make is at the foundation of our history and culture. This special exhibit explores how vital our hands are to our identity, how important they are in transforming our environment and building our town, and how they keep our community alive today.
Solving Problems, Telling Stories: Handcraft in a Harsh Environment, the new special exhibit at the Tongass Historical Museum, opens to the public on Friday, March 1, 2019, with an opening reception from 5-7:00 PM.
