Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
Weller Public Library Director Sarah Roberts shared items and actvities from the Mammal Burke Box with Waitsburg students.
Furs and skulls from the informative
New windows were installed at the Weller Public Library in Waitsburg. The new upstairs windows are the start of efforts by The Weller Public Library Board and the City to remodel the second floor of the historic building.
WAITISBURG - The Weller Public Library offered patons and Waitsburg students an interactive experience on mammals using a Burke box from October 11 through 25. The Burke Museum provides the boxes which include museum-quality objects, artifacts, and activities covering culture, earth science, and life science topics.
Library staff took the Mammal Burke Box to all the classes at the Waitsburg elementary school and several at the high school and middle school. The library will continue hosting temporary exhibits from this program, including rocks and minerals in November, birds in January, and Lewis & Clark in February.
The Mammal Burke Box included some of the following items:
Polar Bear Fur
Wolf Fur - summer & winter coat
Coyote Fur
Red Panda Fur
Cottontail Rabbit aFur
Harbor Seal Fur
Beaver Fur
North American Porcupine Quills
Mink Fur
Mountain Goat Wool
Black Bear Skull
Harbor Seal Skull
Coyote Skull
Beaver Skull
Snowshoe Hare Skull
Bobcat Skull
Pronghorn Horn
Raccoon Skull
Spotted Skunk Skull
Muskrat Skull
Pine Chipmunk Skull
Townsend's Mole Skull
Cougar Skull
The fees for the Burke Boxes are donated by Friends of the Library.
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