As a museum director, you know it’s time for a bigger building when you’re storing artifacts in an old bathroom. On a recent tour of the Lane County Historical Museum at the county fairgrounds, Executive Director Bob Hart displayed Exhibit A: a dark, dank bathroom now used to store an …
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