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Article: Museum hopes to grow with the times Farm life exhibit is start of effort to bring more visitors to Waukesha attraction
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- March 1, 2009
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Waukesha -- Kirsten Lee Villegas grabbed the udder of a
mechanical cow and gave it several firm tugs. Not much squirted out.
Either the bladder was empty, or Villegas' resume does not
include "farm girl" as a skill set.
Villegas, a marketer and fund-raiser by trade, became the
Waukesha County Historical Society & Museum executive director in
June, replacing longtime director Sue Baker, who resigned in August
2007.
Her first large-scale endeavor to amp up attendance is under way.
The museum is hosting a traveling exhibit on farm life in the Upper
Midwest at the beginning of the 20th century. It runs through June
28 and is one of several traveling exhibits planned there through
2010.
Villegas ...