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Fairbanks Community Museum: Front Desk: First Fridays : "If you haven't been here recently, you haven't seen our new gallery; our new art gallery. Like so many things that happen here in the 'Bank..."

Fairbanks Community Museum: Revamped! : "Welcome to the latest and greatest revamped Fairbanks Community Museum website! Please look around and see what we have going on and what ..."

Arctic Garden Studio: Rhubarb Mojitos : "A little piece of advice, when experimenting with cocktail recipes start with the non-alcohol version if you still want to be able to take p..."

The Ester Republic: Farms, schools, soil, and dirt : "As the Comparative Farming & Sustainable Food Systems course has progressed, I have, predictably, gotten farther and farther behind in m..."

The Road is All: The Familiarity of Princes : "Indulge me for a moment and, in return, I shall breathe new life into that most hackneyed of phrases, 'Life is funny'...."

In my quest to try new things, I attended a Brass Mount Making workshop today. For those of us in small institutions with equally small budgets, learning how to make your own mount can be a budgetary life-saver. Since I had never done anything like this in my life, I wasn't all that sure about the outcome. Yet, somehow, thanks to the good folks at Museums Alaska (especially Chris and Norm) I ended up with this: My first brass mount!

"This whole medieval concept of the jihad, or holy war, had all but vanished from the Muslim world in, like, the 10th century, and with good reason," God said. "There's no such thing as a holy war, only unholy ones. The vast majority of Muslims in this world reject the murderous actions of these radical extremists, just like the vast majority of Christians in America are pissed off over those two bigots on The 700 Club." God Angrily Clarifies 'Don't Kill' Rule | The Onion - America's Finest News Source