Find Good Stories in Museums: Part I

What’s the story? In a bid to rid the town of pesky flies, a newspaper ran a contest. Send in your dead flies. Winner with the most gets a prize.

Museums curate stories and tell history in interesting ways. On a recent trip to Bisbee, AZ, we found a gem of a museum. The Bisbee Mining and Historical Museum, a Smithsonian affiliate, presents the town’s boom or bust history from multiple points of view: bankers and businessmen; waves of immigrants; engineers and politicians; and consumers like y...