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A FASCINATING and unique collection of photographs capturing North Craven life from 1864 to 1960 is to go on show for the first time at The Folly…

There should have been a party. When the Corvallis Museum opened last week, there should have been some fanfare, a big communal celebration of an achievement more than two decades in the making. But in the age of COVID-19, that just wasn’t possible. Add that to the list of things stolen from us by the pandemic. Because of safety protocols aimed at containing the spread of the coronavirus, the new museum’s opening on Friday was a quiet affair, with just six visitors at a time allowed inside the building to view the exhibits. Those limits will have to stay in place until Benton County...

The first visitor through the doors when the new Corvallis Museum opened at 11 a.m. on Friday was Freda Vars, and one of the first things that caught her attention was the old Horner Museum sign mounted on the wall of the building’s lobby. Before Oregon State University closed it down in 1995, the Horner was a local landmark and a cultural touchstone for generations of schoolchildren from around the state, who were bused to Corvallis to gaze at the museum’s assemblage of Oregon Country artifacts and pet Horner mascot Bruce the Moose. (All that touching was hard on poor Bruce, who ha...

THE Museum of North Craven Life, The Folly in Settle, has set up a crowdfunding appeal to raise the £1,500 it needs to buy an ‘outstanding’ collection of photographs. The Horner Collection contains more than 1, 000 photographs which were taken by the Horner family who ran a studio in Settle for three generations from 1864 to 1960. Trustees have secured a V&A Purchase Grant which will cover half of the cost and are now racing to raise the match funding required before the end of the financial year. The photographs cover the changing faces and places of Settle and the surrounding a...