Local museum puts the past on display

There’s a lot to learn from looking back where we came from. The local Pioneers Museum gave over 2,500 people a chance to do just that on Saturday.

Jack Ohmstede, event exhibitor, said, “You can appreciate what you have today because when people grew up a hundred years ago it was very difficult to live, especially on the farm with no running water, no electricity and wood for heat and cooking.”

Organizers and exhibitors said it was important to put the past on display.

Jurg Heuberger, Pioneers Museum Board Member, said, “The whole museum is full of artifacts that show you how the pioneers came to imperial valley, how they developed imperial valley. So, there’s all kinds of equipment here that people back in the twenty’s, thirties, forties used.”

They said it was also necessary to pay due respect to the past.

Esperanza Colio Warren, event exhibitor, said, “Today is a good time to remember how hard it was before and how easy we have it sometime today.”

Sam Couchman, Brawley Council Member, said progress was not always a good thing, but it could be.

“There’s many, many things that we have now that are better than what they were in the past. But, in the past life was a little bit easier and people did things at a different pace than they do now nowadays. I think now we don’t talk to people as much, we don’t get together as much as we did in the past,” Couchman said.