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dangerous hobby, ball collecting!" Right now, the Mulhollans are not really entertaining museum visitors — not even the bomb squad — but they are entertaining those plans mentioned earlier. Kelly only had about a dozen spheres when he met Donna, he says. "She introduced the idea of BULK and the retirement plan." "Being folk musicians, there is no retirement plan, and so we figured the Ball Museum could be that for us," Donna says. "We used to charge 50 cents or bring a ball. We might need to up the entrance fee to whatever amount folks want to donate if it really will be our retirement fun(d). We'll just have a donation jar available and any amount appreciated." "For us, like so many people, the coronavirus shut down every gig we had in the foreseeable future," adds Kelly. "We make our living solely as musicians — both of us — and even after things open up, it will be a long time before we can book shows. S0 — when the dust settles and we have the 'all clear' and feel safe enough to let folks in— we will be opening the Ozark Ball Museum for mini house concerts — maybe no more than 10 to 15 people. "We have a brand new show about birds that we have not gotten to perform yet, due to the coronavirus," he adds. "We are excited to share it, so we will be taking reservations when we get to that point. Actually, this will be a retirement plan of sorts because we are lovin' staying closer to home these days!" 10 WHAT'S UP! MAY 24-30, 2020 COVER STORY Museum Continued From Page 9 The Mulhollans plan to start hosting house concerts at the Ozark Ball Museum as soon as the covid-19 pandemic is under control. (NWA Democrat-Gazette/David Gottschalk) The Ozark Ball Museum will also become a performance space for Still on the Hill. The Mulhollans plan to transition their career as musicians to playing closer to home — like in their living room. (NWA Democrat-Gazette/David Gottschalk) This pretty blue metal sphere used to be in the collection of the Ozark Ball Museum — until Kelly and Donna Mulhollan figured out it was a an unexploded portion of a cluster bomb. Then the bomb squad came to visit. (Courtesy Photo/Kelly Mulhollan) Kelly Mulhollan shows off a vial of microscopic balls donated to the museum by John Ward. In the tiny vial there are a billion times a billion buckyballs, he says, using a huge depiction of the tiny sphere for example. (NWA Democrat-Gazette/ Becca Martin-Brown)