Hi John!  Thought I would follow up on my earlier message before deleted
your original.  Anything developing there?

Don't take my offer of service-for-moderate fee proposal as an indication
that we are not willing to assist from a distance for no fee.  If we can do
it from here we will.


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Robert Handy
Brazoria County Historical Museum
100 East Cedar
Angleton, Texas  77515
(409) 864-1208
museum_bob
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From:   John Agan[SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
Sent:   Friday, March 05, 1999 7:37 AM
To:     [log in to unmask]
Subject:        Advice on Establishing a Museum

I have been appointed to a newly created board charged with the task of
creating a Parish (we're in Louisiana) museum and genealogical library.
If our eventual plan is approved by the Parish governing body and the
voters, we will be operating on a small tax-based funding and depend on
donations and private sources for most of our operating funds.  We have
not yet started our planning meetings and I would appreciate any
pointers to publications or manuscripts that address the many problems
we will face. I've been placed on the committee as the "professional,"
even though I'm only a community college history teacher with no museum
studies or library science training.  Any first-hand advice from those
experienced in such projects would be welcome.  Our community has tried
to start such a museum on three other occasions since World War II, all
failed.
Thanks,
John Agan
Minden, Louisiana