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40 WHAT'S UP! SEPTEMBER 2-8, 2018 COVER STORY In Their Own Words Friends of Shiloh share anniversary accolades Kathryn Birkhead Board member I'm an oddity in Northwest Arkansas these days, since I was born and raised here, and I graduated from high school in the same year the museum was founded. I lived away for about 25 years and have been back here now since 2005. I mention all that to say how much I appreciate the role of the museum in honoring and preserving the past of the area I call home, while it also honors and includes people who have come here most recently and their traditions. The exhibits and programs are important, of course, but a huge part of my love of the museum has to do with the grounds. The log cabin and the barn particularly draw me in. The museum grounds keep us linked to the earth with traditional plants that aren't just pretty but also serve nature. I wouldn't know the things I've learned about butterflies, and I sure wouldn't have all the milkweed I have, if it weren't for the museum's work. Brooks Blevins Ph.D. & Ozarks expert I have been visiting and doing research at the Shiloh Museum for almost half of its existence, and I can say that there's not a better museum anywhere in the Ozarks — Arkansas, Missouri, Oklahoma — the whole region. Its value comes from its people — Bob Besom and Allyn Lord and Susan Young and all the others who have worked and volunteered there over the years — and their steady vision of preserving, displaying and interpreting a broad range of regional history within the context of the wider nation and world. Shiloh is regional history done the right way. Daniel P. Martin Pettigrew native "It's wrong to think that the past is something that's just gone. It's still there. It's just that you've gone past. If you drive through a town, it's still there in the rear-view mirror. Time is a road, but it doesn't roll up behind you. Things aren't over just because they're past. Do you see that?" — Terry Pratchett, "The Johnny Maxwell Trilogy" It's a pleasure to offer 50th anniversary congratulations to the Shiloh Museum! My hometown of Pettigrew and my family have been fortunate to enjoy a close relationship with Shiloh for about 30 of those years — and counting. Thanks to the tremendous support of Shiloh, an incredibly detailed view of life in rural Northwest Arkansas during the "timber boom" years of the late 1800s through the first half of the 20th century has been preserved. Expertise, care and work by the Shiloh Museum transformed a mountain of "stuff" into a well-curated collection of bank and business records, photographs Birkhead Blevins Martin