Mandy McGuire Visits the Museum
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In the Strath Taieri Historical Society’s museum in Middlemarch at 12.45pm precisely…
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– a piercing, high-pitched shriek escaped the red painted lips of Mandy McGuire. Connecting with the roof, it exploded as if duck down from a burst pillow fight.
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Bouncing from the photo-laden walls, past the dated 1895-calendar swinging off the hook in the display kitchen…
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…to slide along the selectively laden glass-topped display cases…
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…to take a spin in the ancient of Ancient’s washing machine,
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…where it waited for the inevitable, “No, No, please! Not the murder house!” (A loose, although popular, term, once used by pupils to describe the school dental clinic.)
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To get to the middle room, smart thinking Mandy had managed to weasel her way past her companions, who, in the museum foyer, spell bound, pored over their individual fascinating finds.
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Such as the 1943 Hyde Rail disaster. How there had been a working ski field on the nearby Rock and Pillar mountain range. Reading “in depth” about Platypus, the most famous gold-mining inland submarine–ever! A-n-d it was directly outside, beside the workable smithy–mind food for those, who are past it.
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Meanwhile, Mandy, now over the initial shock, straightened her skirt, to which she has clung so dramatically, to move on from the school dental display, and the black pedal-powered drill that initiated her reaction.
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Plunket babies, memories of the Strath Taieri Highland Pipe Band, metal toy soldiers, a shanghai, memories of wartime…
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…and the Salvation Army Girls’ Home turned into a maternity hospital, now erased from sight, mysteriously burnt to the ground.
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The square box-like vacuum cleaner had Mandy ‘sticking with the broom, thank you!’
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Wearing hats, as they did, delivered a crushing blow to the hair. Thus, these ‘hair-raising,’ heated hair curlers! – Well….Gosh, there is still the barn…
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…In the corner an ugly dog trap turned her head to the “Pheasants Liberated Here” sign…all this gear!
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Through an outside door a helpful museum attendant implemented a secret ‘museum only’ method for opening the sliding door to the cracker, totally refurbished railway boxcar. Tablet–machines included–with yet another railway wagon awaiting its new ‘do-up,’ in defence against the old rot.
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Museum members here need not fish for compliments. They already boast a 9.4kg trout caught locally and now decorating a wall at the museum…
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…just along from where a true Otago skink permanently keeps watch from its mini schist outcrop.
A vocal youngster demands, “M-u-u-m, where is the old fossil you were talking about?”
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To quote a woman from Hamilton who, just off the Otago Central Rail Trail, writes in the visitor’s book: “Staggering! So glad to see it.”
We will be glad to see you, too.