After a four month closure, Garces said he was determined to reopen, but it wasn’t easy.
“It’s really intense to try to stay in business and people are told to stay home,” he explained.
The Paycheck Protection Program was part of his plan to succeed. Launched by the Small Business Administration last spring, the federal government has doled out more than $6 billion to Connecticut businesses.
“Nothing has compared to the amount of assistance and level of funding that the federal government has offered through the PPP program,” explained Bristol’s economic development director, Justin Malley, noting that the state has offered up small loan programs and that cash-strapped cities and towns don’t have the funds to do the same.
The Curran Homestead based out of Orrington has a long tradition of keeping traditional skills and long lost ways of life alive by educating Mainers and all visitors of what life was like in rural Maine during the late 1800s into the 1900s.
Now, the museum will be housing a long-lost New England treasure at the homestead for visitors to check out.
The museum announced in a Facebook post on Sunday that a 1894 Herschell-Armitage horse carousel will be moved to the Curran Homestead this spring and be operating by 2022.
Here s what the post says:
Update. We have hired the engineering firm Nickerson & ODay of Brewer, ME to move our carousel building starting as early as April!