It’s a Christmas Gift. It’s a STOCKING STUFFER. It’s the museum’s new coloring book!!!

It’s $2 and it is on sale until Dec. 14, when the museum closes for the season.

Where else can you get a coloring book with a concise history of the Edwardsburg area, written especially for elementary students?

Thanks to Retired Teachers Leigh Goyings, Judy Singley, and Pat McCain, the coloring book on local heritage is here. The three educators researched and wrote the text and selected the photos. The cover photo was shot by Bonnie Elder and the map on the back cover was drawn by Marilyn Christner. The digital design class at Edwardsburg High School used software to change the photos into coloring pages.

The book’s printing was made possible through a grant from Midwest Energy & Communications so that it can provided without charge to all Edwardsburg fourth graders.  Additional funds for the initial printing were gifted in memory of the late Otis and Mary Montgomery, longtime supporters of the community and instrumental in the museum’s development. The funds for re-printing then were provided in memory of the late Jo-Ann Boepple and her husband, Dick, who worked tirelessly for the museum’s founding.

The museum is open from 1 to 4 p.m., Tuesdays through Fridays, and from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturdays. It will be closed from Wed., Nov. 27, through Sat., Nov. 30, for the Thanksgiving weekend. The books also will be available during the museum’s open house at the Christmas Tree Lighting on Thurs., Dec. 5.