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Women’s Suffrage in Nevadais Theme of Museum Luncheon on March 30

Spring 2019

MuseNews Spring 2019 Churchill County Museum

Annual Luncheon Fast ApproachesJoin us at noon March 30th for the Annual Museum Luncheon. This year’s topic is women’s suffrage in Nevada. Churchill County Museum Association Board Vice President Jennie Mader will present her research in a presentation entitled: Bustles, Broads, and Pantaloonatics: Women’s Suffrage in Nevada. The luncheon will be held at the museum this year in the Dodge Fitz Gallery. Along with Jennie’s presen-tation will be raffles and a silent auction. The luncheon is a great opportunity to renew friendships and acquaintances while also meeing new folks. Funds raised at the luncheon underwrite programs of the Museum. Tickets are $35 and reserved tables of 8 are $280. Tickets are available at the Museum Store.

What: Churchill County Museum Annual LuncheonWhere: Churchill County Museum Dodge Fitz GalleryWhen: March 30, 2019, 12 PMTickets available at the Museum Store


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From the DirectorDan IngramDirector, Churchill County Museum

So much has happened since our last newsletter. The Spirited exhibition has come and gone. I think we can declare it a great success. The programming that occurred during the exhibit allowed us to work with the Li-brary and Library Association, the Fallon Theatre, Jo’s Stillwater Tea Room, Churchill Arts, the Pennington Life Center, and our local sponsors: Frey Ranch Estate Distillery. Our fundraising events at the Pennington Center and the Library helped to cover the cost of renting the exhibit, and were both very well attended. Thanks to everyone who participated.

We have cemented a relationship with the Churchill Library Association and the Churchill County Library and are planning to cooperate on several programs in the coming year. We have already begun to plan next year’s New Year’s Eve party that we will hold at the Museum. The transformation of the library into an ele-gant supper club will be a hard act to follow.

Following New Year’s we welcomed our two new curators, Mar-ilyn Goble and Raeburn “Rae” Sottile. You can read more about them in the pages that follow. They have hit the ground running and have co-curated a new exhibit using the Joyce Alcorn Col-lection the rest of the staff have been digitizing and cataloging. The collection of over 4000 images helps to document our com-munity, as Alcorn worked as a journalist in Fallon in the 1970s and 80s. We will be holding an exhibit reception on April 12th so be sure to mark your calendar. Stop in and try your hand at captioning some of the photos in the collection.

As we welcome new curators, we are saying a fond farewell to Jennifer Jones, our education curator. Jennifer and her family are moving to California. She is leaving big shoes to fill. We will miss her cheery disposition and amazing ability to create activities that always seemed to require another gross of googly eyes.

The museum’s annual luncheon will quickly be upon us. Get your tickets, as there is a limited number avail-able. Jennie Mader is again headlining, presenting her research on women’s suffrage in Nevada, and the com-mittee has put together an impressive array of raffle and auction items. We will be returning to the museum for this year’s luncheon. I hope to see many of you there.

The museum has created a portable version of our popular Snapshots in Time greenscreen photo booth. We used it at both of our recent fundraisers and we are now ready to take it on the road. We are offering rentals of the booth for your events. Give me a call and we can discuss the details.


Education and Programming NotesJennifer JonesEducation Curator

Would it be contradictory to say that time flies working in a museum? It seems like only yesterday I was planning the Fall Lecture Series and the Holiday Open House and now suddenly it is a new year with its own programming. There is something always happening at the Churchill County Museum; time is measured from jumping from one event to the next.

One program that has carried over from last year is the 2019 Block Row!-of-the-Month Lunch. I am happy to report that our class is full! Full of creative and talented people working on quilt rows instead of blocks this year. We are also sewing curves, a new and challenging skill for many in the group. We have just completed the second class and now have two full rows ready to be sewn together. By sewing each row to the next each month, an entire quilt top will be completely finished by the end of the year. It will be very exciting to see such hard work pay off.

The snowy days we have seen lately bring a reminder that the Spring Lecture Series is just around the cor-ner. This year the theme is “Nevada Unearthed: Fossils!” and it promises to be the most interesting series yet! “Nevada Unearthed: Fossils!” starts Tuesday, March 19th, at 6:00 p.m. as we ‘welcome home’ Fallonite paleon-tologist Dr. Joshua Bonde. The next three Tuesdays will include Park Supervisor Jeff Morris from the Berlin Ichthyosaur State Park, author and paleontologist Brian Switek, and Nevada Magazine Associate Editor Eric Cachiner. Please be sure to mark your calendars - you do not want to miss this.

Meanwhile in the Discovery Room, it has been all about space. Need a mnemonic (now that is a fifty-cent word) to remember the order of the planets in our solar system? How about “My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Noodles” for Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. The Discovery Room theme for March is ‘Oh, the Pets You Can Get! All About Our Animal Friends’. Puppies, kittens, hedgehogs, and gerbils – come visit the center table in the Discovery Room to see what the weekly activity will be. (There might even be a little gerbil poetry.) Upcoming in April, “Oh Say, Can You Seed? All About Flowering Plants” and May, “On Beyond Bugs: All About Insects”. Hopefully the snow will have melt-ed, and Nevada will be warmed up by then!

April and May are also the busiest months for Hidden Cave tours. For one reason or another we are short a few tour guides this year (congratulations to Brianna and her new baby!) and will be holding a special training session. Are you interested in becoming a volunteer Hidden Cave Tour Guide? No experience is nec-essary. More information will be coming soon, be sure to keep an eye on our Facebook pages and website. On a personal note, this will be my last time writing a page for the MuseNews newsletter. After twen-ty-two years of living in Fallon, my family and I will be moving to California. I have thoroughly enjoyed my time throughout the years here at the museum, serving on the CCMA board and eventually working as the Education Curator. I have met and worked with so many wonderful people, young and old alike. The Churchill County Museum will always hold a special place in my heart, many thanks.


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Hello! My name is Marilyn A. Goble and I am one of the new curators at the Churchill County Museum and Archives. I am so excited to be here in Fallon, NV!! I am from Hayesville, a small town in the western North Carolina mountains where my dad, Phil Goble Jr., is the pastor of Mount Pleasant Baptist Church. My mother, Michelle Goble, works for a local accounting firm in Blairsville, Ga., just across the state line from Hayesville. I have a little brother who is a junior at Winston-Salem State University and is a punter for the Rams’ football team.I went to two different universities during my undergraduate career that helped me discover my passion and clar-ify what I want to do for the rest of my life. I went to High Point University (HPU) for first two years, studying music and history. During my sophomore year at HPU, I decided that I wanted to major in history and began a search for a history program that would be the best fit for me. After several months of prayer and searching I discovered Western Carolina University’s (WCU) history program.While at WCU, I had the amazing opportunity to learn from not only the history department, but also from the Mountain Heritage Center, a museum on campus, which had welcomed me into its family. I spent my final two undergraduate years at WCU. During that time, I worked on several projects and was involved in several intern-ships that helped train me to work in the museum field. One of my favorite internships was with the Schiele Mu-seum of Natural History and Planetarium in Gastonia, NC. It was here that I was able to use the skills that I was taught at WCU for the first time to help a museum that was in the process of remodeling an exhibit hall. In December of 2016, I had the honor of graduating from WCU with my B.S. in History, but my drive for learn-ing did not end there. In November of that year, I was accepted into WCU’s graduate program. It was during this time that I decided to focus on Public History with the hopes of being able to work in a museum for the rest of my life. In the graduate program, I was able to hone the skills that were taught to me as an undergraduate. The program also allowed me to be able to interact with more people in not only the public history field but also with more people in the community that I had called home for the past four years. In the summer of 2017, I started to look for a job in the museum field in the hopes of finding a place to call home after school. It was on Nov. 1, 2018, that I received an email from Mr. Geof Stark saying that I had been selected for a preliminary phone interview for a curator position here in Fallon. I immediately began researching Fallon and its amazing people, quickly falling in love with the city, its people and its history. Then, after waiting nervously after the first interview, I received another email stating that I had made it past the preliminary inter-views and that I was selected for a follow-up interview. As anyone can imagine I was ecstatic to hear the news!! Instead of doing a Skype interview (which was an option), I wanted to see this town first hand so my dad and I bought plane tickets and flew out to Fallon so I could do the interview in person. While I was here everyone that we met was amazing and kind, and the town and the drive from Reno was beautiful. On Dec. 12, 2019, I received one of the best early Christmas presents of my adult life. I received a phone call from Mr. Geof Stark offering me one of the two full-time Curator positions at the Churchill County Museum and Archives. My family and I were excited for this amazing opportunity that I had been given. I accepted imme-diately and the official paperwork was sent to me to sign and send back. The rest of December was divided between spending time with my family, packing for the move, finding a place to live, and talking with my department to see if I could finish my degree from across the country in Nevada. It was a happy day when I heard from my department head, my advisor, and from the graduate school and they said that I could finish the remaining requirements remotely. I was cutting it close in regards to housing, because of the tough housing market in Fallon I did not have a definite address until I was a day into the four day drive from Hayesville to Fallon that I signed a lease for an apartment here in town. During that four-day drive, I was able to see so many different sites and places that I never thought I would see.

Curator’s NotesMarilyn GobleCurator


It was an amazing time to spend with my parents as we made this trek out here – we caravanned the entire way. As each day passed and each mile closer that I got to Fallon the anticipation and excitement for this new job and adventure grew. Then on the evening of Jan. 19, the three-car caravan drove into Fallon, checked into a hotel for the night, and the next day started a three-day unloading and unpacking event. On Jan. 22, I had the honor of officially signing all the paperwork and becoming one of Fallon’s two new full-time curators at the Churchill County Museum and Archives. It was on that day that I began my next and greatest adventure so far as not only a curator for this amazing county and also becoming a new resident in this great town. Thank you to everyone for being so welcoming and kind to me (and my family while they were here) and I look forward to the days, weeks, months, and years ahead as I continue to learn and become a part of this incredible community. Thank you for the Churchill County Museum and Archives as well as Mr. Stark for taking a chance on someone who is brand new to the field. I will try my best in everything that I do so that you will never regret choosing me.God Bless!!Marilyn Goble

Upcoming EventsMARCHMarch 10, Hidden Cave Tour. Meet at the Museum at 9:30 AmMarch19, Dr. Joshua Bonde, Nevada in the Age of Dinosaurs at the Museum, 6:00 PmMarch 20, Block of the Month Lunch. Begins at noonMarch 24, Hidden Cave Tour. Meet at the Museum at 9:30 AmMarch 26, Jeff Morris, Triassic Giants: The Ichthyosaurs of Berlin Ichthyosaur State Park at the Museum, 6:oo Pm March 30, Museum Luncheon at the Museum, Begins at Noon

APRILApril 2, Brian Switek, Written in Stone: How Paleontology Changes Our View of Nature at the Museum, 6:00 PmApril 9, Eric Cachinero, Ancient Nevada at the Museum 6:00pmApril 12, Exhibition Reception, Joyce Alcorn Collection at the Museum, 6:00 PmApril 13, Hidden Cave Tour. Meet at the Museum at 9:30 AmApril 17, Block of the Month Lunch. Begins at noonApril 27, Hidden Cave Tour. Meet at the Museum at 9:30 Am MAYMay 11, Hidden Cave Tour. Meet at the Museum at 9:30 AmMay 22, Block of the Month Lunch. Begins at noonMay 25, No Hidden Cave Tour


Hello everyone! My name is Raeburn Sottile and I am one of the new curators here at the Churchill County Museum. I know that this space is generally used for updates as to new things that are happening here at the Churchill County Museum, but from a certain perspective I am a new thing, so I hope you’ll forgive me for spending a little time talking about myself.

I want to start by emphasizing how excited I am to be here in Fallon with you all. Everyone I’ve met has been very kind and welcoming, which is wonderful since this has been a huge transition for me in a lot of ways. I was born and raised in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. I went as far as Minnesota for college where I earned a dual degree in history and biology from the University of Minnesota – Twin Cities. I then returned to home to get my master’s degree in public history with a certificate in museum studies from the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee. My focus is history of science and medicine because I find it fascinating to examine how our understanding of the world around us has changed over time and how that has affected the way we live our lives.

During and after my time at the University of Milwaukee, I interned and worked at several different museums in and around the Milwaukee area. I helped with very large digitization and inventory projects at the Milwaukee Public Museum and Haggerty Museum of Art. I also created and then executed several educational and inter-pretive programs at the Milwaukee County Historical Society. Most recently, I spent a lot of time working up front with the public at the living history museum Old World Wisconsin and science museum Discovery World. While it was wonderful to meet so many lovely and interesting people, I found myself missing working in the back end and discovering the great stories hidden in collections.

Having realized what I wanted to do, I started applying for collections positions. Jobs are a bit scarce in the Midwest so I quickly widened my search to include most of the country. That was when I found the listing to come be a curator here at the Churchill County Museum. I was incredibly excited about this particular position for several reasons. The first is that I generally prefer smaller institutions with more focus in scope and a more tightly-knit team. I find that in larger museums there is a tendency for everyone to go off in different directions, making communication break down and stopping staff from understanding the collection as a whole. At a small-er museum we have the chance to get very specific in our history, to understand it on a local and personal level. CCM is also already a fantastic example of what local history can be. As someone who is interested in museums, I’ve seen a lot of little historical societies, and it’s fairly rare for one to be as well put-together and professional as CCM. We’ve got a strong foundation here, and I hope to help in continuing to professionalize and modernize to make the museum even better than it already is. Additionally, this is a very exciting time for the Churchill Coun-ty Museum. As most of you likely recall, the board of trustees released a brand new strategic plan last summer that outlined some new directions we are interested in exploring. I look forward to working through this process with the rest of the team and hope to be able to have a big impact here.

In spite of all of these positives, however, I was a bit apprehensive at first. Being someone who has spent his whole life in large Midwestern cities, moving over 2000 miles to a small town in the desert was daunting both personally and logistically. Thankfully, my family was incredibly supportive. My fiancée, Alicia, helped me sort through and get rid of most of our belongings, and my mother drove out with us, bringing a van full of stuff. It was a stressful week between the packing, three day drive, lease signing, and unpacking, but in the end everything worked out quite well.

Curator’s NotesRaeburn “Rae” SottileCurator


It has still been quite an adjustment to get used to the weather patterns and small town life, but the people here have helped make it easier. I want to thank everyone I’ve met so far for being very kind and welcoming to me. For those of you I have yet to meet, I hope you stop by the museum soon so we can get to know each other!

Since I started at the end of January, I have been hard at work trying to catch up and learn as much as I can about this area. Churchill County has a wonderfully rich, vibrant history that, unfortunately, does not tend to make it into the curriculums in Wisconsin. I know that my fellow curator, Marilyn, and I have some huge shoes to fill, so we have been studying hard. Thus far we’ve read through several books and publications about the history of Churchill County and have worked our way through the impressive history files compiled by Bunny Corkill, which has given us a good basic overview. Of course there is always more to learn, but we’ve now been able to start working on new projects, such as helping the Fire Department get a clearer picture of its history and devel-oping a temporary exhibit on the Joyce Alcorn collection, which chronicles life in Fallon in the 1980s. We have a lot planned for that so we hope to see you all there! Until next time,Raeburn “Rae” Sottile


Recently at the Museum...

November’s Jazz Age Party Marked the Debut of the Museum’sPortable Photo Booth ( Now Available for Rental)

The Spirited exhibition required that we present the TintabulationsHoliday Concert at the Oats Park Art Center.

New Year’s Eve saw the Churchill County Library transformed into a Supper Club. The event raised over $5,000 that was split between the Library and Museum Associations.Planning is already underway for next year’s New Year’s Eve Party at the Museum.

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Daniel Hilliker, Sandy Hillery, Jennie Mader,

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Dan Ingram—Museum DirectorMarilyn Goble — Curator

Raeburn “Rae” Sottile — Curator

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