Editor, Gazette-Journal:
The Mathews Museum is becoming a driving force in bringing more visitors to our town, and we have the community to thank. Volunteers, individual donations, corporate support, and great publicity in the Gazette-Journal have all come together to make the museum an attraction that any community would be proud to have and support. Special thanks are in order:
To Mr. and Mrs. Tony Billings for the donation of their beautiful, 1891 A. B. Chase reed organ and almost half of the monies necessary for its complete restoration. To Mark Thompson & Co., master organ builders of Colonial Williamsburg, for making unprecedented “house calls” to the museum to complete the restoration. Future organ concerts are being planned in our new theater.
To C. W. Hudgins for the donation of his 19th century doctor’s carriage for our soon-to-be-opened, “Dr. Haynes Carriage House” exhibit.
To Julie Hardaway, President General of the National Daughters of the Confederacy, for having her ...