‘A Walk Through Gaines County History’ Pieces of history ranging from one of World War II’s most top-secret devices to a collection of pre-Columbian artifacts are among the new items now on display at the Seminole Museum in Seminole. The museum, located at 700 Hobbs Highway, seeks to reflect the peoples and cultures who have inhabited the Gaines County area, from the indigenous past to the present, along with their institutions and ways of life. New at the museum is an exhibit of a Norden Bombsight, which during World War II was one of the United States’ most highly guarded secrets. Used in high-alti- tude bombers in both the European and Pa- cific theaters, the Norden was also used to drop the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan in 1945, to help bring an end to the war. The display includes information and photos on the bombsight, and a free handout offers further details on the device, including the story of a Seminole man who, as a serviceman in Big Spring during the war, worked on maintaining the top-secret weapon for pilots in training. Topping the Norden Bombsight exhibit is a dramatic color painting of the Enola Gay, the B-29 bomber that dropped the bomb on Japan, by Seminole artist Kathy Davis. The Seminole Museum is also now host to a wide-ranging exhibit of hundreds of pre-Columbian, or Mesoamerican, arti- facts. The Mesoamerican civilization encom- passed an area ranging from north of Mexico City south to the Honduras-Guatemala bor- der. Among the cultures of that region, active from about 200 B.C. to 1300 A.D., were the Aztec, Toltec, Maya, Olmec and Teotihuacán. Pieces in the exhibit include a wide range of pottery, figurines, jewelry, carvings, The Seminole muSeum 700 Hobbs Highway — Seminole, Texas 79360 — (432) 758-4016 The Norden Bombsight display tells the story of one of the most secret weapons of World War II. Stone and ceramic figurines are among the hun- dreds of artifacts of pre-Columbian cultures.
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‘A Walk Through Gaines County History’Pieces of history ranging from one of World War II’s most top-secret devices to a
collection of pre-Columbian artifacts are among the new items now on display at the
Seminole Museum in Seminole.
The museum, located at 700 Hobbs
Highway, seeks to reflect the peoples and
cultures who have inhabited the Gaines
County area, from the indigenous past to
the present, along with their institutions and
ways of life.
New at the museum is an exhibit of a
Norden Bombsight, which during World
War II was one of the United States’ most
highly guarded secrets. Used in high-alti-
tude bombers in both the European and Pa-
cific theaters, the Norden was also used to drop the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima,
Japan in 1945, to help bring an end to the war.
The display includes information and photos on the bombsight, and a free handout
offers further details on the device, including the story of a Seminole man who, as a
serviceman in Big Spring during the war, worked on maintaining the top-secret weapon
for pilots in training.
Topping the Norden Bombsight exhibit
is a dramatic color painting of the Enola
Gay, the B-29 bomber that dropped the
bomb on Japan, by Seminole artist Kathy
Davis.
The Seminole Museum is also now host
to a wide-ranging exhibit of hundreds of
pre-Columbian, or Mesoamerican, arti-
facts.
The Mesoamerican civilization encom-
passed an area ranging from north of Mexico City south to the Honduras-Guatemala bor-
der. Among the cultures of that region, active from about 200 B.C. to 1300 A.D., were
the Aztec, Toltec, Maya, Olmec and
Teotihuacán.
Pieces in the exhibit include a wide range of pottery, figurines, jewelry, carvings,