点评:What a surprise this place!! Very well done regional history museum, extensive at two floors. It chronicles the life of Cleveland County's favorite son (guess who??!!), and it very thouroughly tells the larger story of the area.
Mentions of author and southern social observer and critic WJ Cash and his book, The Mind of the South. I recall my mother said this book blew her mind when she was an undergrad at Univ of GA... and it blew my mind years later. Loved how the museum told the textile history of the area -- who thought to highlight that the mills were named after the owners' daughters? Wonderful tidbit.
I think what I liked the best and found most unusual were the instances (there were many) in which the exhibits delved into Earl Scruggs's inner thoughts, feelings and emotions. There was a fairly large exhibit about Earl's childhood, and included the fact that Earl was only four years old when his father died. Earl never spoke directly about this loss. However, when traveling for shows as an adult, Earl went into a cafe where an old man, disheveled, poor and hungry, was refused service because he wasn't wearing a tie. Years later, Earl gave an interview in which he reflected on this experience, saying he thought the man had the hands of someone who worked hard all his life, and he would have liked to ask the man if he would like to be his father. This is an example of an experience this little museum gives: a very personal experience. I salute the person/s who made the decisions as to what stories went in to this museum, and how to tell them.
Highly recommend.
翻译:这个地方真是太让人惊喜了!!非常出色的地区历史博物馆,有两层楼。它记录了克利夫兰县最受宠爱的儿子(猜猜是谁?!!)的生活,并且非常详尽地讲述了该地区的整个故事。
提到了作家、南方社会观察家和评论家 WJ Cash 和他的书《南方的思想》。我记得我母亲说,当她在佐治亚大学读本科时,这本书让她大开眼界……多年后,这本书也让我大开眼界。我喜欢博物馆讲述该地区纺织历史的方式——谁想到要强调这些工厂是以老板的女儿的名字命名的?很棒的趣闻。
我认为我最喜欢和最不寻常的是展品深入探讨 Earl Scruggs 内心的想法、感受和情绪的例子(有很多)。有一个关于 Earl 童年的相当大的展览,其中包括 Earl 父亲去世时只有四岁这一事实。Earl 从未直接谈及这一损失。然而,成年后,厄尔在出差看演出时,走进一家咖啡馆,一位衣冠不整、贫穷饥饿的老人因为没有戴领带而被拒绝服务。多年后,厄尔在一次采访中回忆了这段经历,他说他认为那人的手就像一个终生努力工作的人,他真想问问那人是否愿意成为他的父亲。这就是这个小博物馆提供的体验的一个例子:非常个人化的体验。我向那些决定把哪些故事放进这个博物馆以及如何讲述这些故事的人致敬。
强烈推荐。