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“[The Main Street Museum] forces one to contemplate the nature of museums and curating. Why do we save what we save? How do we decide what to discard, what to display, what to hide away, and what to destroy.” '''—Joe Citro,''' ''Weird New England,'' 2004 | “[The Main Street Museum] forces one to contemplate the nature of museums and curating. Why do we save what we save? How do we decide what to discard, what to display, what to hide away, and what to destroy.” '''—Joe Citro,''' ''Weird New England,'' 2004 | ||
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| + | '''Mind Your Head''' Science tells us that the average brain fires its synapses several million times every hour. David Fairbanks Ford's brain probably fires its neural popguns at least four or five times as often, producing intracranial light shows to rival the aurora borealis or, at the very least, a Chinese salute to the Year of the Goat. Not to put too fine a point on it, Mr. Ford's brain is, well, different. | ||
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| + | Ford is the founder, president, curator, conservator, interpreter, fundraiser, business manager, publicist, maker of display cases, and floor sweeper for the Main Street Museum, a cabinet of curiousities that could have been designed by P. T. Barnum if only he had been ''really'' creative . At last sighting, the MSM (as the cognoscenti call it) was more or less in Hartford, Vermont, but when and where fortune will take it next, God only knows, although Ford is hoping for another storefront in White River Junction. You won't find the MSM in the usual guidebooks, but in Vermont, at least, it has developed a certain reputation and even atrracted some funding from the Vermont Arts Council and a few other daring sources. Ford happily admits that the MSM has been called "Vermont's Strangest Musuem" and that he himself is often referred to as "quirky". However, he prefers to call the MSM "Vermont's most amiable museum." | ||
Revision as of 19:04, 6 July 2008
“It is only due to organizations such as yours that the important works of our Country are brought to the attention of the public.” —Marie Reilly, Museum of Bad Art, Dedham, 1998
"The Main Street Museum is just...its just the Most Wonderful Place on Earth!" —Pariah Beat Band, 2008
“The Main Street Museum—White River Junction’s answer to the Library of Congress.” —Peter Welch, U. S. House of Representatives, 2007.
“[The Main Street Museum] forces one to contemplate the nature of museums and curating. Why do we save what we save? How do we decide what to discard, what to display, what to hide away, and what to destroy.” —Joe Citro, Weird New England, 2004
Mind Your Head Science tells us that the average brain fires its synapses several million times every hour. David Fairbanks Ford's brain probably fires its neural popguns at least four or five times as often, producing intracranial light shows to rival the aurora borealis or, at the very least, a Chinese salute to the Year of the Goat. Not to put too fine a point on it, Mr. Ford's brain is, well, different.
Ford is the founder, president, curator, conservator, interpreter, fundraiser, business manager, publicist, maker of display cases, and floor sweeper for the Main Street Museum, a cabinet of curiousities that could have been designed by P. T. Barnum if only he had been really creative . At last sighting, the MSM (as the cognoscenti call it) was more or less in Hartford, Vermont, but when and where fortune will take it next, God only knows, although Ford is hoping for another storefront in White River Junction. You won't find the MSM in the usual guidebooks, but in Vermont, at least, it has developed a certain reputation and even atrracted some funding from the Vermont Arts Council and a few other daring sources. Ford happily admits that the MSM has been called "Vermont's Strangest Musuem" and that he himself is often referred to as "quirky". However, he prefers to call the MSM "Vermont's most amiable museum."
