Three Hour Sale

A three hour sale, kind of like a three hour tour, but no shipwreck.  On Thursday, December 15 the gift shop is having a three hour sale, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. only!  Everything in the store will be 25% off for those three hours.  Even the sale items will be an additional 25% off.

See you then!

*No members or docents additional discounts and it may not applied to previous purchases. 

FLAVOR OF WHATCOM

Friday December 9th from 6-8 PM at the Lynden Pioneer Museum you can sample some of the most scrumptious foodstuffs Whatcom County has to offer.

Tickets are 10.00 each/15.00 for 2!  ON sale NOW!!! call 354-3675 to reserve or purchase your tickets today!  You can also reserve your tickets via email at Luginbill2@yahoo.com

Local Food producers will be sampling their wares (and selling if you need that last minute super special gift!)

Just some of the Vendors!  (and their samples)
Bellewood Acres-apples, ciders, fruit jams, peanut butter
Lone Boot Buffalo Ranch-meat!
Lynden Dutch Bakery-tasty desserts
Green Barn-produce
Renatas German Deli-sausage, and cheese
Aldrich Farms-jams, jellies, dips, and more
Appel Farms-cheese
Barbies Berries
Breckenridge Farm
Everybodys Store-local delicacies
Fresh Breeze Organic Dairy-cheese and milk
Holmquist Hazel Nut Orchards-nuts and fun
Guilmetts Busy Bees-HONEY!!!!

Take time out this holiday season.  Come to the Flavor of Whatcom, test out some great food, get some great gifts and relax and have fun!  The museum is all decorated up for the holidays.

There will be live music and lots of fun!

Today

Along with our new exhibit, Flying Spokes, we are hosting several events at the museum. Today Bike and Barge is coming to the museum. Bike and Barge hosts trips in Holland, France, Belgium and Germany. Their barges look amazing for accommodations. As you bike through Europe, they take care of the details. There are different levels of riding including, just stay on the barge. Meals are included.

Please join us today at 1:30 at the museum to see a free presentation on biking through Europe with Bike and Barge.

See you there!

Playmobil Sale Today Only

One day only sale at the museum gift shop, today! All playmobil is 25% off regular price. No limit. Think Christmas, birthdays or just because for all those kiddos that LoVe playmobil.

History-It affects all of us.

Are you tired of your history?  Is it boring?  Simple?  Common?  Did all your ancestors do is travel a few thousand miles West?  Survive hunger, thirst, violence, illness and emotional hardships?  Did they cross an ocean in the hold of a ship infested with lice and rats?  Did they eat nothing but salted beef and bread so hard you had to soak it for an hour just to gnaw on it?  Were they thrown out of their homes because of their religious or political views?  Or perhaps they were simply kidnapped and dragged away in chains?


At the Lynden Pioneer Museum we are working diligently, day long and through the night to solve the problems of boring history.  No more will you have to relate stories of hardship and strife at parties when your friends are talking about alien abductions, and political conspiracies.  You will not longer have friends walk away after a few minutes of you relating how your ancestors "had it so much harder than us."  No-we are coming up with new ways to prevent boring history and give you a chance to impress your friends, co-workers, neighbors and strangers on the street at every opportunity.


History afflicts all of us.  And boring history afflicts 99 out of every 100 people.  Help us fix this problem in our society.  We can't get rid of history but at least we can make it "not boring."


Support this effort by coming into the Lynden Pioneer Museum today and find something interesting about history.  If we all work together we can overcome our past.

Exhibit Opening

Flying Spokes

The bicycle exhibit at the Lynden Pioneer Museum officially opens June 1st.

The museum members Members Only BBQ is set for Thursday, May 26th, 4:30-6:3o p.m.

If you are not a member and would like to take part in this fun and delicious evening please call the museum and join today.
The bicycle exhibit is running through November 24th.

You won't want to miss it!

Attention Easter Bunny

The Lynden Pioneer Museum Gift Shop is loaded for the season.

I've ordered a lot of new inventory this Spring and it's here!

Thomas the Train Pez dispensers, Jelly Belly candy, dolls and more dolls, garden tools for kids. Darling aprons for your little one to wear in the kitchen, when she is "helping" you bake.

Lego and playmobil in all sizes. Board books for baby are stocked.

There are tons of options for the Easter Bunny to find just that perfect Easter basket stuffer.

Hop in today, Thursday morning, mention the blog and receive 20% off.

The Easter Bunny needs all the help he can get. Right?

(you don't need to literally HoP!)

Two wheels are better than Four!

Starting in the end of May the Lynden Pioneer Museum will be hosting an exhibit on the history of the Bicycle.

The Bicycle has become ubiquitous among human culture. In China Bicycles are the main cause of traffic jams! Originally invented in the early 1800s they were the primary driver for technologic invention that later allowed the automobile to develop. Such things as pneumatic tires, chain drive, ball bearings and self tensioning rims were developed for the bicycle but later allowed the car to become what it is today.

Bicycles have inspired art as well and we would like to exhibit some of your art bikes. If you are an artist with a unique flair and would like to make a bike for the museum exhibit please let us know. If you own a bike that is more beautiful than practical then we would like to exhibit it!

Finding Aunt Phoebe: Upcoming Event

Finding Aunt Phoebe: My Search for the True Life of Phoebe Goodell Judson

Thursday, January 13, 2011 at 1:30 p.m.

Lynden Pioneer Museum
Cost: FREE

IF...you have read Phoebe Goodell Judson's remarkable book, A Pioneer's Search for an Ideal Home, perhaps you think that you know the story of Phoebe's life. Well, maybe not! Come and hear Mary Michaelson, Phoebe Judson historian, talk about the many surprising facts she has discovered over the last six years of in depth research.

DISCOVER...the "story behind the story." Where were Phoebe and her husband, Holden, living prior to their move to Whatcom County in 1870? (hint: it's not where you think). Why didn't Phoebe tell us the whole story? This is just one example of information that is missing from Phoebe's book.

LEARN...how Mary discovered these little-known facts with a combonation of diligence, teamwork, affirmative prayer and "co-inky-dinks." Mary isn't your garden-variety researcher.

BE AMAZED! BE AMUSED!...Mary presents without a net. No scripts, no notes, no visual aids other than her lovely PowerPoint slide show. She has a phenomenal memory for a myriad of seeminly unrelated facts, assembling the puzzle pieces to present a surprising picture of the
"TRUE LIFE OF PHOEBE JUDSON."

Don't miss this fascinating free program!

This program is jointly sponsored by Humanities Washington Inquiring Minds Program and the Lynden Pioneer Museum.



Snowman Milk Bottles

I saw this idea on Bakerella and had to share it! Small milk bottles are available at the Lynden Pioneer Museum Gift Shop for $3 each. Just add the powdered sugar donut holes, chocolate jimmies for the eyes and mouth and an orange sunflower seed for the snowman's nose. A scarf, buttons, and a straw to drink the milk. Donut hole and milk for the snack time ... cutest winter snack ever.