Heritage Museum is traveling back to the 1970’s this Saturday
The Heritage Museum of Big Spring has some big things going on this weekend.
From 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, local personality Johnnie Lou Avery Boyd will be at the museum signing copies of her new cookbook titled A Cookbook for Non-Cooks.
“It’s a humorous-type cookbook,” said Heritage Museum Director Tammy Schrecengost. “Johnnie Lou devoted so much of her time as a career woman and was so involved in the community, then when she retired she found out she couldn’t cook. So she did this cookbook for people who have never cooked before. So she’ll be here to sign her cookbook.”
At 2 p.m. the museum will take a look back to the early years of its existence by opening a 50-year-old time capsule.
“We’re going to open our capsule that we have here. In 1976 it was brought to the museum,” Schrecengost
said. “So we’re going to open that up and see what kinds of history were entered back then, and share that with whoever is here.”
The museum director said after its contents are perused by those present at the event Saturday, the time capsule will be resealed for another 50 years, and joined by a new container of current memorabilia, both designed to be reopened another 50 years in the future.
Schrecengost said the new time capsule has been – and still is – on display in the museum’s lobby, and local residents can donate their own material as reminders of 2021 for future Big Springers.
“It’s a trunk, it’s on a table downstairs, and you can come in and add stuff to the time capsule from now until June 26,” Schrecengost said.
Schrecengost encourages people to donate items which will memorialize the spirit of the current era.
““The Twenties – you know, 2020,” she said. “Like, pictures of buildings or news that’s going on right
now. I’m sure there will be rolls of toilet paper, hand sanitizer, masks, I’m sure that will be represented. And you know, cellphones, or what