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 ========================================================= Important Subscriber Information: The Museum-L FAQ file is located at http://www.finalchapter.com/museum-l-faq/ . You may obtain detailed information about the listserv commands by sending a one line e-mail message to [log in to unmask] . The body of the message should read "help" (without the quotes). If you decide to leave Museum-L, please send a one line e-mail message to [log in to unmask] . The body of the message should read "Signoff Museum-L" (without the quotes).