by Daniel Goodman | Jun 29, 2020 | Curator's Corner, Food
by Amanda Mather, Curator of Collections There are certain cuisines and specific foods that are almost impossible to imagine without chile. Thai and Chinese cuisine, pasta arrabiata, I mean what did they even do in Szechuan before they had chiles? Before contact,...
by Daniel Goodman | May 12, 2020 | History Herald
by Laura Gonzales, Education & Volunteer Manager Hello from your History Herald! “Play is the highest form of research.” – Albert Einstein. When you were a kid did you ever play “bones”? Ever wonder why dice (and often dominoes,...
by Daniel Goodman | Apr 28, 2020 | Curator's Corner
by Amanda Mather, Curator of Collections We eat it, use it for fiber, use it for needles and awls, make sandals out of it, make soap out of it, we just love the many uses of Yucca! Yucca is the state plant of New Mexico — it grows throughout most of the Americas but...
by Daniel Goodman | Mar 3, 2020 | Curator's Corner
by Amanda Mather, Curator of Collections Here is a little insight on an overlooked object, but one that helped keep us clothed for a very long time. Spindles are long sticks used to spin yarn, and the Spindle Whorl is the weighted piece at the end that helps maintain...
by Daniel Goodman | Jan 16, 2020 | Curator's Corner
by Amanda Mather, Curator of Collections Adobe — who doesn’t love the stuff? Talk about an easy-to-find resource — it’s literally everywhere. Adobe was the first construction material used by homo sapiens — to this day, 50% of the world’s people still live in some...
