Haines museum staff and business leaders attended six educational sessions Sept. 15-16 that were broadcast online at the Sheldon Museum from the 2016 American Association for State and Local History annual meeting in Detroit, Michigan.

Sheldon Museum Director Helen Alten said the first session, covered the challenges of three small museums and how they overcame those setbacks.

“It’s all things that we as a small museum have issues with,”Alten said.

Cheryl McRoberts, executive director of the American Bald Eagle Foundation, attended three of the six sessions last week. She found the second session, called “From Farm to Fork: Narratives That Connect,” to be the most helpful as she works to get a grant to restore the Henderson barn and property for the foundation.

McRoberts said the session gave her the idea to display the farm equipment that was left on the property to represent the land’s history as a tobacco farm, a dairy farm and crop farm.

“I was jazzed about that,” McRoberts said.

She said she is now doing research to find people who remember the barn being built or might have been around in the early days when the property was being farmed.