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Someone asked me recently when I'm going to add a new post to the blog, and I was surprised and delighted to know that someone actually reads it! So to all my many blog readers, I encourage you to check out the additions to our website, (http://www.revelstokemuseum.ca) and watch for more to come. One great new addition is the page on Arrowhead, with links to reports prepared for the Arrowhead Conservation Society. These include a horticultural report and accompanying photographs, as well as a Heritage Assessment Report on the former townsite. If you're interested in the former community of Arrowhead, south of Revelstoke, you may want to have a look at the reports.

We are making plans for the upcoming Revelstoke Homecoming, planned for this July 23 to 26. The facebook group for Revelstoke 2009 Homecoming will provide you with more information on the community events. The Museum will be holding Cemetery and Downtown Heritage Walking Tours, and we will be unveiling new exhibits at the Museum. On Thursday, July 23, we will be hosting a special dinner in honour of James Baring, 6th Baron Revelstoke, who is the direct descendant of the First Lord Revelstoke, after whom our city is named. Keep an eye on our website and this blog for upcoming details.

We now have a Facebook group for Revelstoke Museum & Archives & Gift Shop, and we welcome you to join.

My next Brown Bag History talk on Revelstoke will be on Libraries. Revelstoke had reading rooms as early as 1890, and I found this note in the April 9, 1892 issue of the Kootenay Star: “Surely there are landowners enough in this town to make the institution a useful and successful one. But strangers come and go and never know that Revelstoke is so advanced in culture as to contain a library. Why not have some kind of notice outside informing the passer-by and the stranger within our gates that we have at least a reading-room?"

I'd love to hear your comments on our website and blog. Post a comment to the blog, or email me (Cathy English) at revelstokemuseum@telus.net