A day at Heritage Museum In Prince George

I had a little free time this week and wanted to find out about doing some research on county family cemetaries that are not on record here, and decided to go visit the local Heritage Museum in Prince George.
The museum opened just a couple of years ago inside the old courthouse and I have been wanting to see the place so off I went.
I was rather surprised at what was on display inside when I was inside. I was most impressed by some of the stories of items that were donated or loaned to the museum. I am hoping that a few things I asked about will soon come there as it seems only right that they are in the museum for all to see.
One item i really liked was an old whale flipper bones. Long ago when I was in 6th grade, a whale beached itself along the river. My children have never believed me when I told them about that so I took a picture of it just for them LOL.
Some other items I liked was a trunk of old Bohemian family items, quilt, dishes and even some canned food there. Prince George owes a lot to these families who settled here and farmed. I also seen a Civil War chess set made out of bullets and a World War 2 collection from a bride here in the county along with her scrapbook, letters and things like that. There was also an old grindstone from Flowerdew Plantation that was used to grind corn for cornmeal. There were some old pictures of schools and some history on them. But what I really wanted to see was from my generation - The Years of the Amazing Mezza. John Mezza was our band director at Prince George High School and he was the best. Over the years, he directed our band and make our school a national name. He took the band to so many parades including return trips to the Rose Parade and Macys Thanksgiving Parade. Many bowl games including the Sugar Bowl, Cotton Bowl and Orange Bowl. They even performed in Canada where our friends in Canada were impressed that our band was the first to play its National Anthem for the game.
My memory of the band that is one of my favorites is when they danced the Tea Berry Shuffle all the way thru the Rose Parade with the crowd applauding the whole way. The majorettes wore holes in their boots halfway thru. Tea Berry was a popular chewing gum at the time and they came to the school to tape the band doing the shuffle !
So this was my day out this week and I hope you enjoy the pics !
see you soon