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Michigan women s history museum faces COVID-19 pandemic, a flood and death of its founder Julie Hinds, Detroit Free Press © Courtesy of Meaghan Bergman Water pooled into the museum s giftshop, ruining some paper-based materials. There also has been personal loss. In December 2020, the museum s founder, a pioneering activist in the field of women s history, died of COVID-19. Then on the morning of Jan. 6, a century-old water main burst in downtown Lansing, resulting in flooding that covered the floor of the museum s gallery and office space with several inches of water. Two months later, the site s director, Meaghan Bergman, is waiting to find out when she can reopen. And she s dealing with another flood, this one metaphorical: the onslaught interviews and speaking engagements booked in March for Women’s History Month.

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