Inspiration from Mill Museums and David Macaulay
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Posted October 22, 2021 5:05 pm
So...this link is for an expired event, but it taps into a couple of major inspiration points for me when it comes to thinking about how to market grain chain initiatives:
Heritage Winooski Mill Museum is pleased to present David Macaulay: BUILDING A MILL TOWN as part of the 2020 Vision initiative of the Vermont Curators Group from December 2- March 12. The show is free but timed tickets are required. Timed tickets can be reserved on our website. Featuring original drawings, sketches, research notes, and manuscript from Macaulay’s 1983 book Mill.
One is the museum itself. While this particular museum does not appear to have much in the way of a history as a grist mill, the mill technology and its evolution have a rich and nostalgic history to to tap into (for good of course). There are also a number of historical working grist mills and mill museums across the country that are ripe to have their stories woven into this retro-revolutionary grain chain story moving forward.
The other inspiration point is the author David Macaulay. I read his illustrated books on castles and mills when I was still in grammar school, and they still inspire me to this day. The combination of fact, the creativity and whimsy of the illustrations, and the inadvertent gaining of knowledge along the way is something I have always aspired to being able to do myself.
