Now before you get the wrong idea Kristen and I are showing you the new sign for Wagner Farm. Really.
Last week Kristen, Jim, Sarah and I went to Detroit for the Midwest Open Air Museum Conference. These conferences are held in different cities twice and year and offer sessions and tours that relate to the fields of public history, interpretation and professional management of historic sites. The conference was hosted by Greenmead, a museum in Livonia, Michigan. Sessions ranged from a tour of the Henry Ford Museum to a class on funeral customs in the nineteenth century America.
One of the classes that I found especially interesting was on "web presence". Basically, every museum has "web presence" even if you don't have things like blogs or web sites. What people post about you on flickr or facebook says a lot about your place. Imagine my shock when during the lecture the speaker starts into his power point presentation and then brings up a post on Wagner Farm! I am happy to report that we were shown in a very nice light.
So Detroit was a great time and we learned more than we should have. Long live WF!
