The Umbrella Cover Museum in the News!

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National traveling exhibit

The Smallest Museum in St. Paul hosts The Umbrella Cover Museum!

The Workhorse Café proudly displays this firehose cabinet which is The Smallest Museum in St. Paul. From Jan. - Feb. 2021 this is the display. Join a special Zoom conversation with the two curators on Sat. Feb. 6th by sending an email. More details are on this webpage.

What is it that ties us to the state where we currently live and adopt it as the one we're "from"? How does living in our states define us? States of America is a series of short documentaries--one from each of our 50 states--that ask these questions by featuring everyday people as diverse as the landscape in the places they call home. This is a story of Maine. Nancy "3” Hoffman curates the world's only Umbrella Cover Museum on an island off the coast of Maine. Here she embraces a community that welcomes eccentricity and self reliance as she pursues her life's purpose of bringing laughter and joy to others. *States of America is created and produced by Brad Barber *Maine shot and directed by Brad Barber, edited by Peter Totten, color by Ryan Romanovitch with music by Micah Dahl Anderson. Title design by Brian Turley and Mark T. Lewis. For more information contact Brad Barber at bradbarberpictures at gmail dot com. www.StatesFilms.com
 

The State of Maine

Documentary film about the State of Maine by Brad Barber, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, March 2019

http://www.statesfilms.com/state/maine

The Weather Channel

Featuring The Umbrella Cover Museum on Cantore Stories, September 2010

 
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Cartoon essay by Liza Donnelly

“A Summer Story of People’s Wonderful Weirdness,” September 2019

https://medium.com/@lizadonnelly/the-umbrella-cover-museum-2f3c33eecaa0

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“Five Lessons from One Quirky Museum”

Article from the American Association of State and Local History about the Umbrella Cover Museum, Summer 2018

https://aaslh.org/five-lessons-from-one-quirky-museum/

 The 13 Oddest Places you can Possibly go in Maine, September 2018

https://www.onlyinyourstate.com/maine/13-oddest-places-me/?fbclid=IwAR15UDNV6db36ictggUt5LbpNkK2JIFzKpBNeuTuAzfjD5Hxj5idi3EVZps

Travel Trivia website - Eight Things You Never Knew about New England, September 2019

https://www.traveltrivia.com/8-facts-you-never-knew-new-england/XqgZkXU1XQAGkiUY

Cartoon Essay by Liza Donnelly - “A Summer Story of People’s Wonderful Weirdness”

https://lizadonnelly.medium.com/the-umbrella-cover-museum-2f3c33eecaa0