by Mike Staggs | Mar 30, 2020 | Uncategorized, Updates
We’ve never seen anything quite like it here at the Seal Cove Auto Museum – over 100 people, one-third of them MDI Cub Scouts (Pack 98), gathered on March 1 to compete in the annual Pinewood Derby. Last fall, derby organizer Clay Gilley asked us if we had...
by Mike Staggs | Jan 15, 2020 | Learn
You may have heard of White trucks or White sewing machines but a White steam car? You learn something new every day. This is one of 167 Whites known to exist, one of five model M-Ms, and one of only three 1910 M-Ms with a Pullman body. It is powered by a...
by Mike Staggs | Dec 30, 2019 | Learn
Evaline Kimball was born in Rumford, Maine, on her family’s farm in 1864. Growing up, she went to live in Chicago with her uncle William Wallace Kimball, the founder of the Kimball Piano Company. “With his great wealth and connections to high-society Chicago,...
by Mike Staggs | Dec 9, 2019 | Learn
A “supercar” is loosely defined as a high-performance street-legal car. I’ll tell you all about America’s first Supercar – the Stanley K Semi-Racer – but first a bit of background history. In 1906, at Ormond Beach (now known as Daytona Beach, Florida),...
by Mike Staggs | Dec 2, 2019 | Uncategorized
The 2019 season, my first as Curator of Education, was stuffed to its hilt with beautiful days (and busy, rainy days!), great visitors, and fun events and programming at the museum. We are now in our off-season, and I thought it appropriate to reflect on some of the...
