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The Elgin History Museum, Elgin Public Museum, Fire Barn No. 5 Museum and the Elgin Area School District U-46 Planetarium are hosting the first Elgin Museum Crawl featuring a theme of catastrophes on scales from local to global.
The Elgin Public Museum has a new director in Sharry Lynn Blazier, who has been education coordinator at the natural history and anthropology museum for the past two and a half years. She and the museum are gearing for the holidays with their annual Touching on Traditions exhibit and a Winter Solstice program.