The Logy Bay-Middle Cove-Outer Cove Museum

Photo by Annemarie Christie The museum took part in the St. John’s Doors Open event again this year, as it did in  2013. It is a wonderful event to take part in; it is advertised all over the city and  reaches a wide audience. The turn out at the museum this year was great, especially  in the afternoon! For a lot of people it was a first-time visit, and the visitors  consisted of a nice mix of locals and people from the city; a more diverse group than  visits the museum, generally speaking, children and adults both. Photo by Annemarie Christie People really liked the new Outer Cove Plane Crash exhibit. A few of the return  visitors had come specifically to see it! People loved hearing an embellishment on  the exhibit: I passed on the story I had heard from Robert Angus who heard the  story from Mike O’Rourke. Mike’s father was one of the men who went out in a boat  to try to save the pilot. The pilot had not survived, but they brought him back in. One  of the men held onto

For the majority of my life, I have romanticized about being a curator. I have always loved the idea of collecting beautiful, old objects - objects with their own past, and a narrative to tell - and displaying them in an interesting and informative way. This summer I was given the opportunity to curate my very first exhibit here at the Logy Bay-Middle Cove-Outer Cove Museum. Curator, Katie Harvey, putting the finishing touches on  The Mysterious Outer Cove Plane Crash  exhibit. Photo by Kenneth J. Harvey The idea just sort of fell into my lap. Gary Hebbard wrote an article for the Telegram early in the summer about a military plane that crashed into a house in Outer Cove in 1956. One of the members of our Heritage Committee sent it to me to put in our archival collection.  And so it began. I decided my first step would be to interview people in the community who could supply me with first-hand accounts of that day.  Easier said than done. The plane crash happened in 1956, s