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This is Rommel Strip, America Heilman.

So we have the sign here that sort of says,

we regret to report that due to the many repercussions of the COVID epidemic, our new exhibit

about NOTS is not yet fully installed.

You are welcome to wander in for a preview if you like, but not all the displays and while texts are complete.

We apologize for this inconvenience.

We ask for your patience. I should have said we beg. We beg for your patience in accommodating the vicitudes of a homemade museum. Thank you, the management.

So that's what greets you at the entrance to the Naut exhibit.

This is the sound of hundreds of little bells connected to a mesh

curtain that is connected to a wire which is connected to an old record player which is

gently agitating the bells at the entrance of the Museum of

Everyday Life, which is also where you find the written apology which Claire Dolan just read.

Claire is the curator of this museum, and at the same time she was planning this year's

exhibit she was also busy working as an ICU nurse at a small rural hospital in the

Northeast Kingdom in the middle of a pandemic. The Museum of Everyday Life lives in a

in a barn on Route 16, about eight miles from Glover,

population 2000.

And even if the new exhibit isn't quite finished, it's already strange and brilliant.

Over the years, the Museum of Everyday Life has given us the toothbrush, the mirror, bells and whistles,

celebrations of objects we use every day in our unglamorous everyday lives.

This year's exhibit features the knot.

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