A late 19th-century family holiday is the focus of an exciting new exhibit at the Newburgh Museum beginning Saturday, November 22nd. The special holiday display, “I’ll Be Home For Christmas,” will feature the view of a couple as they await the train to journey home for the holidays. At home the parlor is complete with a six-foot feather tree and gifts ready to be opened. A large Dickens village will also be on display along with other Christmas collectibles.
The Newburgh Museum’s “Notable Women of Newburgh†display, featuring iconic weather reporter Marcia Yockey, also continues through December.
The museum is open on Wednesdays and Saturdays from 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. Beginning November 29th and continuing through December 28th the museum will have extended hours and be open until 4:00 p.m. on Saturdays, and also on Sundays from 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. Private group tours are also available by appointment.
The Newburgh Museum cares for, showcases, and interprets authentic pieces of Newburgh history. It is conveniently located on the first floor of the Old Newburgh Presbyterian Church at the corner of State and Main Streets in downtown Newburgh.
Please visit www.NewburghMuseum.com or call (812) 853-5045 for more information.
If you in fact had any idea how, and why I myself could be connected to Marcia Yockey you’d load your’re collective pants. She was a caricature for sure, but a pilot by desire. That’s a connection most would never understand. Marcia and that immortal J3 super cub, wow and me, the kid. Life path story for sure, and no, Marcia however inappropriate sometimes wasn’t ever outta line with me. I learned “stuff”, about ones personal potatoes as applied to flight, however.
The instructor executed inverted pass under the Wabash rail bridge downstream from McFadden Island was a great test for this older now, and maybe not any better, now fella. First time I heard…. Take it! you’ve got it !I’ve got some damned important potatoes to unload at altitude kid! Give me that green beaker on the right! Darned Tall order for a 14 year old, with a hand full of airplane, if one actually knew the circumstances. She did that and that’s exactly why she left her spirit of flight with me. Great personality Marcia, I liked her, allot. The first T&D she said to me Well damn, your a natural , go to departure, show me a downwind with a base to final, did that, she was silent. I said later did I do something wrong? She said no, your a flat out natural those just don’t come along much.
Later she said hell kid, I wouldn’t have expected a thing any different from one of Her kids. She was speaking in reference to my Mother. Research the Slaughter avenue airdrome. WWII the women involved, and why. Its wally world out that way now, however once some local heroin’s flew from there. One of ’em even became a governors wife. They all remained incredible Women throughout life.
Yesterdays good stuff, and somehow forgotten today.
And then we have the local Museums. There’s another story in that respect, as well.
She was a character, when being a character was accepted! I wonder how she would had survived in this sanitize/political correct world that is forced upon us now?
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