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We are pleased to announce that this week, we have We are pleased to announce that this week, we have completed the final payment for our elevator installation. Following a two year construction project, the Wood County Museum reopened its doors in 2016, featuring a newly implemented accessibility project, including the elevator, ensuring the main building is fully ADA compliant.
The Wood County Museum's 2025 Wrapped is in! Tha The Wood County Museum's 2025 Wrapped is in! 

Thank you for a very successful year. We cannot wait to see what 2026 has in store!
This is Education Programs Coordinator, Michael Mc This is Education Programs Coordinator, Michael McMaster, with Day 9 of the Archive Advent Calendar. Shown is a lonely wiseman separated from a Nativity Scene. It has sat on my desk at the museum for probably 20 years or more. I refer to him as “The Mournful King.”

The history of the Nativity Scene dates from Early Christian Art depicted in the catacombs of Rome from as far back as 380 AD.  The Nativity Scene depicted in sculpture also has its roots in Italy as far back as 1280.  This Italian tradition then spread to other European nations through the Renaissance to the 19th century.  These European traditions then were brought to the United States.  Italy and Naples in particular, were leading exporters of fine Nativity sets and their depictions of the Nativity sculptures influence the Nativity sets we see at Christmas. The MET in New York city and the Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh both own and display early Neapolitan Nativities.  Although the Wiseman shown, crude and mournful as he might seem, is marked Hong Kong, it retains characteristics of early Italian Nativities (in my humble opinion.)

Please enjoy the holidays and if you display your own Nativity please drop a photo of it in the comments!
#archiveadventcalendar - Day 8: Festive Food Alys #archiveadventcalendar - Day 8: Festive Food

Alyssa Garland, Museum & Events Assistant, here with today’s archive advent calendar prompt! 

Last month, I was assigned pumpkin pie for my family’s Thanksgiving dinner. I love trying historic recipes and remembered seeing a recipe for pumpkin pie in the Wood County Infirmary cook book from the 1940s. This particular pumpkin pie recipe was from long time matron, Lottie Brandeberry. I had to try it! 

Something you might notice about this recipe…there are no instructions! My guess is that Lottie, and the other cooks, knew this recipe like the back of their hand, so further elaboration was not needed. However, it was very common in the early 20th century for cook books of all kinds to have recipes for pie that excluded baking times, oven temperatures, and even a recipe for crust! It was just assumed that a good housewife would know all of these things. So, here is what I did:

I’m not very patient when it comes to making pie crust, so mine was store bought (Kroger Deep Dish Ready-to-Bake Pie Crusts to be specific). I combined all of the ingredients into a mixing bowl and poured into my thawed pie crusts. Since my crusts were deep dish, the recipe was divided out to just two pies and not three as it was listed in the recipe. For the baking time, I just followed another pumpkin pie recipe. I pre-heated the oven to 425, baked for 15 minutes, rotated the pies, reduced the oven to 350, and baked for another 40 minutes (if making smaller pies, shoot for 30-35 minutes). I let the pies cool completely and placed them in the fridge to further set overnight. 

This recipe was a big hit with my family and our pumpkin pie connoisseur (aka my dad 😂). I hope you try it this holiday season!
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