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The occasion featured contemporary donuts and apple cider, the Family Resource Center Carnival, fossil discovering, exhibit excursions within the Avenue of Shops, and a drumming demonstration within the planetarium.

The Historical Village was open for excursions of the McKay Log Cabin, the Maltz Exchange Bank, Green School, and Spratt Church.

The Girl Scouts of St. Paul Lutheran Church in Alpena gave excursions of Spratt Church, explaining bits of historical past to company. The women defined that the church was inbuilt 1912 and the pews are precise replicas of the unique pews. Guiding company to the windowsill, the Girl Scouts then famous {that a} 1919 penny was present in that very same windowsill when the church was moved to the museum grounds in 1990. They mentioned the church was heated with a woodstove, and a portray of Jesus was discovered on the wall behind the cross.

Two of the Girl Scouts giving excursions on Saturday had been Layla Ellsworth, 8, and Juliana Avery, 10.

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Layla Ellsworth, 8, and Juliana Avery, 10, welcome company to the 1912 Spratt Church on Saturday on the Besser Museum Fall Festival. The Girl Scouts from St. Paul Lutheran Church gave excursions of the historic constructing.

Scout leaders Trudy Mousseau, Bronwyn Woolman, Janis Galarza, and Carla Steinke supervised the ladies on the Spratt Church.

“As a troop, we like to give back to the community,” Woolman mentioned. “The girls enjoy coming here, playing games, doing crafts, supporting the museum.”

She mentioned the Girl Scouts have been giving excursions of Spratt Church for over 20 years.

“The museum has been very good to the community,” Woolman mentioned. “We have fun giving back.”

Inside the museum, volunteer Mark Addington, wearing historic clothes, welcomed company into the General Store within the Avenue of Shops.

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Volunteer Mark Addington tells guests in regards to the General Store within the Avenue of Shops contained in the museum on Saturday.

He defined that the unique counter got here from Marston’s General Store in Long Rapids, and the shop was used as a put up workplace in addition to providing groceries, a number of meats, dry items, and sweet.

Reach News Community Editor Darby Hinkley at 989-358-5691 or dhinkley@TheAlpenaNews.com.

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Children choose a ducky out of a pool for a prize within the Family Resource Center Carnival Saturday at Besser Museum.

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Hamid Hamid smiles behind a cowboy cutout in entrance of the Maltz Exchange Bank on Saturday at Besser Museum.

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