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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand
fibers connect us with our fellow-men; and along those fibers, as
sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as
effects.
- Henry Melville
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Six essential qualities that
are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, courtesy,
wisdom, charity. - William Menninger
History Buffs Wanted at the Holliday-Dorsey-Fife
Museum
2/13/08 (8:02 a.m.) The Holliday-Dorsey-Fife (HDF) Museum will
offer two docent training classes on Sat., March 8 and March 15 from 10:00 a.m.
to 12:00 p.m. This training is for anyone interested in becoming a part of
history. Not only will you receive exhibit training, but you will hear
entertaining stories about the people and places in Fayetteville.
The training includes a workbook and stories about our seven
exhibit rooms including the Family Room from which the Museum is named, The War
Between the States Room and Fayetteville’s participation in it, The Gone With
the Wind Room and Margaret Mitchell’s ties to Fayetteville, The Fayette County
Room that tracts Fayetteville’s colorful timeline, The 1800’s Bedroom, the
recently dedicated Veteran’s Room and a special rotating exhibit room which
currently features the largest Gerber baby food collection.
The HDF Museum is a Greek revival antebellum house built in
1855. Learn about the local ties between Doc Holliday and Gone With the Wind and
why Across the street, the Museum offers tours of the Historic City Cemetery
where Margaret Mitchell’s great grandparents are laid to rest.
The Museum is searching for people interested in history,
museum preservation or community service. The training will be conducted by City
Historian and House Manager John Lynch and Debi Riddle, Museum Coordinator. For
more information or to register for one of the docent training classes please
call 770-716-5332 or email
jlynch@fayetteville-ga.gov.
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