Jackson Town Hall on the Move!

History Moving Forward
Weather permitting, the Town Hall will be moved Tuesday, July 29th. Put this on your calendar! We are still formulating plans, but there will be food, maybe music, and interpretive displays. There will be a photo-op reminiscent of our Pumpkin People display of people pulling the building. Come and join in.

To help explain and interpret the moving operation, our curator Bob Cottrell will have a hands-on interpretive station to help explain the use of ancient simple machines to move buildings historically and compare and contrast that with today's more modern methods. The six simple machines that date back to ancient Greece and Rome are the lever, incline plane, screw, wedge, pulley and wheel and axle. We will look at how these tools work and the mathematical principles involved in calculating the mechanical advantage they provide.

There will also be a display of stone working tools used to split and shape stone that served as the original building foundation and will be incorporated into the building at its new location.

The interpretive station is on a drop by basis, with no real start or finish to the interpretation. Folks can spend as much or little time as they want.

Bring a lawn chair and watch history in the making. Activities will start around 9:00 AM.