I've been asked to curate an exhibit about education for a small,
community-based history museum in Northern California.  A few years ago, the
museum did an exhibit about its one-room schoolhouses, so something a bit
different is required.  I've been doing oral history interviews with former
teachers and students, and I think that I will be concentrating on the period
between the end of World War II and the beginning of state involvement in
local education (roughly 1945-1965).

I am interested in knowing whether anyone has curated an exhibit on education
and if so, how you have translated a rather "bookish" subject into material
and visual terms (such as lunch boxes, classroom visuals, film strips,
desks).  If possible, I'd like to get a flavor of the very transitional
quality of the period: the degree to which this community was at the same
time agricultural and very focused on local issues, and yet at the same time
was having to build new schools every year to accommodate the surge of
subdivisions (with attendant Baby Boom kids) and was having to deal with more
and more regulation and supervision from state and even national ideas about
education.

Thank you in advance for your suggestions.

Mary Sheila McMahon

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