Our historic farm to be part of Fort Collins 150 Exhibit at Museum of Discovery

I forgot that I nominated these two posts for the Fort Collins 150 history contest:

"Gruesome end for Father of Fort Collins; historic farm revealed" and 

"Case cracked: Overland Stage stop, a founding father, and the mystery of the Twin Willows".

According to the email below, which we received from the Fort Collins Museum of Discovery, we will be part of the upcoming FC150 history exhibit! Oddly, over the holidays, we were also given until March 20 to come up with an appraisal for our property slated to be taken for the Larimer County North Shields Street Corridor Project, which would change our street from this:

to something like this graphic from the project website. You can kiss these old, shady maple trees goodbye.

I now understand the mustangs as the helicopters close in over their heads.

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Here's the good-news email:

Congratulations!  Your nomination has been selected to be a part of the upcoming FC150 exhibit celebrating the 150^th anniversary of Fort Collins which will open in August of 2014.  

Thanks to you and many other community members, this exhibit will be a great look at What Makes Fort Collins Fort Collins.  We received many, many nominations and a community task force reviewed each and every one.  Between community nominations and museum staff nominations the task force was able to select the 150 stories that will go into the exhibit. 

Now the hard work begins.  We want each of you to be involved in introducing the story you nominated.  

Over the course of the next few months the museum will contact each of you individually and discuss your nomination.  There will be several things we’ll want to do with you to prepare your story.  We’ll need to do some massaging and editing of your nomination to get it into a useable format; we may ask for your help in identifying objects to help illustrate that story; and we’ll want to get your picture taken so you can be on the panel identifying your story.  

As you can imagine, with 150 stories to deal with this process will take some time.  If you don’t hear from us in the next few weeks don’t worry, we’ll get in touch.  I anticipate everyone should be contacted at least by the end of January, but hopefully prior to that. 

I hope you are excited to be a part of the exhibit! 

Sincerely, 

Brent Carmack
Associate Director

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