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Cheroke Wheel Basket Weaving Workshop
Submitted by on Thu, 07/01/2010 - 1:13pmCheroke Wheel Basket Weaving Workshop
Submitted by on Thu, 07/01/2010 - 1:13pmPottery Place at The Children's Museum
Submitted by editor on Tue, 06/29/2010 - 7:58pmCarson City Chamber of Commerce honors volunteers
Submitted by admin on Thu, 06/24/2010 - 11:26amAt the Chamber's Annual Meeting held at Duke’s Steakhouse inside the Casino Fandango on Monday, June 21, outgoing Chairman of the Board Jim Smolenski honored special people who helped the Chamber grow during his tenure.
Honored were:
JOHN HOY – VOLUNTEER OF THE YEAR
Father's Day at the Nevada Train Museum
Submitted by admin on Mon, 06/21/2010 - 7:58amAmong the many things to do on Father's Day was for the kids to take dad (or vice versa) to the train museum.
Carson City on the Web
Submitted by on Wed, 06/16/2010 - 12:41pmby Scott Schrantz Source: http://aroundcarson.com/2010/06/16/carson_city_on_the_web Sarah, The Queen of Wanderlust, has a trip report and some photos from the Carson City Rendezvous on her blog.
Open House at Carson City Airport
Submitted by editor on Wed, 06/16/2010 - 10:00amFlights of fancy and aviation demonstrations will be on tap Saturday at the Carson City Airport Open House from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. The event and parking is free and open to the public.
Festivities will include skydiving demonstrations, fly-bys, model aircraft demonstrations, static displays, hot-air balloon rides and lots of food and snack vendors.
Spring Cleaning??? Donate your gently used rummage to the Children's Museum
Submitted by Carson Now Reader on Thu, 06/10/2010 - 12:21pmYou still have a couple of days left to donate to the Children's Museum rummage sale. Just drop off your gently used items (no clothing please) at the museum from 10am to 4:30pm Thursday & Friday, June 10th & 11th.
Be sure to come by on Saturday and check out the great stuff at the Rummage Sale! Ann Street will be closed off and there will be bargains galore! You never know what treasures you will find at the CMNN REALLY BIG Rummage Sale.
Saturday, June 12th, beginning at 8:30am
813 N. Carson Street
The Children's Museum of Northern Nevada 884-2226
Kid's Summer Break Art Camp at the Children's Museum in Carson City
Submitted by Carson Now Reader on Tue, 06/08/2010 - 10:43pmMaking a mess is FUN... Just ask any kid!
Mon-Fri, 9am-11:30am, June 14th - June 18th.
$65 for non-museum-members but only $50 for CMNN members.
Join Miss Penny for a great week of fun art projects and snacks.
Ages 3 and older.
Call 884-2226 for reservations
The Children's Museum of Northern Nevada
813 N. Carson Street
Carson City, NV 89701
CMNN.org
884-2226
Kid's Night at the Museum!
Submitted by Carson Now Reader on Tue, 06/01/2010 - 9:19amThe Childrens' Museum is hosting our annual "Kid's Night at the Museum" during the Taste of Downtown again this year.
It will be from 5:30 to 8:30 on June 19th. We will have very special snacks, games, crafts, movies & FUN!
Only $20 per child or $40 for families of up to three children. Ages 3-12.
Space is very limited so please call to reserve your spot now 884-2226.
Thanks to our sponsors... Little Caesar's Pizza, Walmart, and Straw Hat Pizza!
Children's Museum of Northern Nevada Rummage Sale in Carson City
Submitted by Carson Now Reader on Tue, 06/01/2010 - 8:59amDo this now...
Donate your tax-deductable, gently used items to the Children's Museum of Northern Nevada's REALLY BIG Rummage Sale. Volunteers are needed too. No clothing, please!
Donations are being accepted everyday until June 12th. The museum is open from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
For more information, please call (775) 884-2226.
Do this on June 12th...
Come to the Children's Museum and check out the great rummage that we will have for sale.
Families enjoy holiday weekend on V&T, steam trains between Carson City and Virginia City
Submitted by editor on Sat, 05/29/2010 - 3:44pmBack on the tracks again, the V&T Railroad kicked off Saturday with a near-sold out day, ample sunshine and a promising full-steam-ahead summer.
"We had a couple of seats left, with quite a few tickets sold for tomorrow," said Candy Duncan, executive director of the Carson City Convention and Visitors Bureau. "Today went very smoothly and everyone was excited about going on that first ride of the season."
Radio program looks to Nevada history as guide to the region's future
Submitted by editor on Thu, 05/20/2010 - 7:05pmVIRGINIA CITY — Longtime Virginia City businessman Hugh Roy Marshall brings old cars, old wars and old warhorses to the Northern Nevada airwaves this Saturday, May 22.
Tales of Nevada Past and Present airs at 1 p.m. on 5,000-watt 1270-AM. The program is also available live to online listeners at www.KBZZ.com. The on-air call-in talk line is (775) 823-1920.
This week's featured players:
The old war horse: Veteran tourism media specialist Harry Spencer, a popular local columnist who specializes in stories of his first-hand knowledge of the golden age of Nevada gambling.
Letters from the Nevada Frontier
Submitted by editor on Mon, 05/17/2010 - 10:43pmBob Nylen, Curator of History at the Nevada State Museum will continue his series of lectures depicting Nevada's rich historical past with Letters from the Nevada Frontier. Bob will be showing slides and reading the correspondence of Tasker L. Oddie. This will give you an insight of the early life of Nevada. The program starts at 2 p.m. at the Nevada State Museum. Call (775) 687-4811.
Coin show brings in collectors of all ages
Submitted by admin on Mon, 05/17/2010 - 4:11pmThe Downtown Coin Club staged its first coin show over the weekend at the Carson Nugget.
The event drew 675 adults, plus a number of kids who were rewarded with a Wheat cent album, and were allowed to begin filling it by picking through a pile of 5,000 of the coins.
Ron Roberts from the Nevada State Museum gave each kid who picked out Foreign coins a trip around the globe, showing them the country and telling them the denomination.
Tales of Nevada Past and Present premieres Saturday on 1270-AM
Submitted by editor on Fri, 05/14/2010 - 7:46pmVIRGINIA CITY — Longtime Virginia City businessman Hugh Roy Marshall brings history to the airwaves and the Internet beginning Saturday.
Tales of Nevada Past and Present premieres at 1:00 p.m. PDT on 5,000-watt on the regional affiliate 1270-AM. The program will be available live to online listeners at www.KBZZ.com. The on-air talk line is (775) 823-1920.
"The rich future of Virginia City and the legacy of the legendary Comstock Lode cannot be fully realized without a continuing focus on all the things that led us here," Marshall says.
McKeen Car Unveiling
Submitted by on Tue, 05/11/2010 - 1:30pmChorus of the Comstock at Nevada State Railroad Museum
Submitted by Carson Now Reader on Mon, 05/10/2010 - 2:35pmThe Chorus of the Comstock lead by director, Jim Crowley, presents songs of tribute for the celebration of 100 years, to the day, that the McKeen motor car arrived in Carson City for the V&T Railway, and, the culmination of a 12 year and nearly one million dollar restoration effort for this unique antique railway transport car. The program included the patriotic theme selections, “This is My Country”, “America the Beautiful”,”Armed Forces Medley” and “ God Bless America”. Barbershop quartets, "Miners" and "Assisted Living" entertained at Wabuska depot and the State Museum building.
Carson City railroad history celebrated with arrival of McKeen Motor Car V&T No. 22
Submitted by Jeff Munson on Sun, 05/09/2010 - 6:24pmCARSON CITY — It was 'all aboard' the historic McKeen Motor Car V&T No. 22 on Sunday for dozens of railroad enthusiasts as the Nevada State Railroad Museum celebrated a milestone 100th anniversary commemorating the iron horse's arrival to the Carson City railroad.
The celebration was at the platform of the historic Wabuska Depot. Numerous local, state and federal officials and noted railroad historians participated in the event, trading stories and history references, and taking turns riding the car.
The Bernhard family, donors of the car, were the honored guests.
Musicals on tap in Carson City this weekend
Submitted by Carson Now Reader on Thu, 05/06/2010 - 4:27pmA couple of fine shows on tap this weekend for Carson City folk. One is a children's production, Aladdin, Jr." at the Children's Museum of Northern Nevada. The other is the venerable "Sound of Music," staged by the Western Nevada Musical Theater Company, affiliated with our local college.
New Turntable at NSRM
Submitted by on Wed, 05/05/2010 - 1:10pmOurTown: Wildhorse Children's Theater Company
Submitted by admin on Sun, 05/02/2010 - 6:30amCarol Scott and Pat Josten from the Wildhorse Children's Theater Company, talk about their latest production of "Disney's Aladdin Jr." at the Northern Nevada Children's Museum.
Railroad museum in Carson City celebrates arrival of historic motor car
Submitted by editor on Fri, 04/30/2010 - 12:23pmThe Nevada State Railroad Museum in Carson City will celebrate the delivery of the historic McKeen Motor Car V&T No. 22 on May 9, marking the completion of its decade-long restoration and the 100th year anniversary of its arrival in Carson City.
The event will take place Sunday, May 9, with the ceremony/program to begin at Noon, at the Nevada State Railroad Museum, 2180 South Carson Street, Carson City. After a public ceremony and inaugural trip, rides will be available to the public. McKeen Car Rides: will be at 1:30, 2, 2:30, 3, 3:30 and 4 p.m.
Celebrate National Coin Week with the Nevada State Museum and Reno Coin Club
Submitted by on Wed, 04/21/2010 - 11:15amCash in on the celebration of coins this Saturday in Carson City
Submitted by editor on Mon, 04/19/2010 - 1:44pmTime to flip a coin and cash in on some Carson City history this week.
Today through Saturday is National Coin Week and the Nevada State Museum and Reno Coin Club will celebrate the occasion with events culminating on Saturday, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the museum.
The 87th annual National Coin Week, will celebrate coin and currency collecting with the theme, “Beautiful Places: Landmarks and Mintmarks.” The Nevada State Museum and the Reno Coin Club, both members of the American Numismatic Association, have several events lined up for the day.
Review: '25th Annual Putnum County Spelling Bee' is a long title for a funny musical
Submitted by Carson Now Reader on Sun, 04/18/2010 - 2:38pm“The Bee” is an offbeat kind of musical comedy that turns out to be pretty funny in the Wild Horse Theater’s production, weekends through April 24 at 8 p.m. at the Children’s Museum of Northern Nevada, 813 N. Carson St.
NSRM Turntable Reconstruction
Submitted by on Sat, 04/17/2010 - 11:44amDisney's Aladdin, Jr.
Submitted by Carson Now Reader on Thu, 04/01/2010 - 5:10amWild Horse Children's Theater is getting ready to transport audiences on a magical journey to “A Whole New World” as our spring production of Disney's Aladdin, Jr. takes to the stage at the Children's Museum of Northern Nevada in Carson City May 7-22.
Disney's 'Aladdin, Jr.' presented by Wild Horse Children's Theater
Submitted by Carson Now Reader on Thu, 04/01/2010 - 5:07amWild Horse Children's Theater is getting ready to transport audiences on a magical journey to “A Whole New World” as our spring production of Disney's Aladdin, Jr. takes to the stage at the Children's Museum of Northern Nevada in Carson City May 7-22.