I’ve been thinking about Bob Paquette’s Microphone Museum ever since @TechConnectify reminded me of it last week.pic.twitter.com/3CXeLaywx0
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I’ve been thinking about Bob Paquette’s Microphone Museum ever since @TechConnectify reminded me of it last week.pic.twitter.com/3CXeLaywx0
The Microphone Museum is in Milwaukee – one man’s collection, open only by appointment. I visited it in 2017, after @plural’s suggestion.pic.twitter.com/HxVJbpH9e8
Those kind of places can be a bit of a crapshoot – one person’s museum is another person’s junkyard – but this one turned out bigger and cleaner than expected. I was glad I went.pic.twitter.com/nJiNYKFJ1T
And yet, I never wrote about or otherwise shared this visit. It was fun to be there, ask questions, look at different artifacts. But I never connected with much of what was inside. I‘m not sure I learned that much, either.pic.twitter.com/dejPK1a2Sj
The stories I heard were mostly nostalgia – except not mine. I never listened to radio, tinkered with audio equipment, or had a personal relationship with a mic of any kind.pic.twitter.com/Bp6bmwKGWH
I don’t have a connection to Nipper. I don’t know whether President Coolidge was a good guy, or a bad guy. I didn’t really know if the thousand microphones around me was a worthwhile collection, or junk off of eBay.pic.twitter.com/Fuw7b2MxjQ
(Likewise, I didn’t know whether me witnessing a recreation of a part of a WWII plane was supposed to be inspiring, or a sign of Mr. Paquette desperately holding onto an idealized past.)pic.twitter.com/KryOQkLaPu
Sigh. I’m sorry. I feel bad about this. I’ve been down on many of these things recently. What’s the point of preserving history if there might be no future?
(Many of those darker thoughts are self-directed. What separates my book from any of this?)
Spoiler alert for the last chapter of my book! :·)
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