WILTON - Joni James, executive director for the Western Maine Play Museum, announced her resignation yesterday, January 24. Joni James shared the following statement: Dear Members and Friends of the Western Maine Play Museum, It is with mixed emotions that I announce my resignation from the position of Executive Director of the Western Maine
Dear Museum Community,
The violence and chaos that ensued in our nation’s capital on January 6 was horrifying and reprehensible, and a clear attack on our democracy and society propagated by deliberate deception and misinformation from elected officials. On a day that the United States recorded the most COVID-19 deaths in a single day so far, rioters invaded the U.S. Capitol building in an effort to overturn the unambiguous results of our presidential election resulting in the additional tragic loss of lives.
Museums serve millions of people of all backgrounds and political persuasions in communities across the country, who cast their vote on Election Day. Regardless of whom their ballots favored, our support for the democratic process and the peaceful transition of power must be unequivocal.