For more, email Hutson holds a cow’s skull while giving a presentation. Hutson said she accepts donations of specimens. “I think more kids should be educated on those things and understand the world around them more like older generations did, which is another reason why we do this,” she said. Hutson said she is convinced kids of the present generation should learn some of the lost arts, such as gardening, canning foods, woodworking or hunting and cleaning an animal. “It was pretty gross with the smell,” she said. She normally doesn’t have an issue while cleaning skulls but said she nearly got sick while preparing a coyote skull. Hutson has considered expanding her repertoire by learning taxidermy. “I’m passionate about getting kids to experience things they normally wouldn’t,” Hutson said. She has contemplated visiting other schools to share her collection of fossils, skulls and bones. Hutson also has taken items into Coram Deo and given presentations on bones. A total of 140 people visited July 31, approximately the same number as last year. Hutson and Wade gave presentations to the museum attendees and took questions from the children. My oldest (son) is a prolific question asker.” “Whether I’m doing it informally or formally, I continue to try to educate myself more.

“My family and I joke about becoming a park ranger in my next life,” she said. Donations are accepted at the gift shop and are used to purchase more items.Ī 1997 Carmel High School graduate, Hutson majored in creative writing at DePauw University and enjoyed the AP Biology class in high school. There is a museum gift shop and snack bar. “I like making nature accessible to people,” she said. The one-day museum includes a sensory station for children to touch items. In addition, she has fossils and American Indian artifacts. Hutson has a collection of bones and skulls. “I have my work gloves and I sanitize everything.” People will call and say I found this dead animal,” Hutson said. “It’s kind of a joke that I’m wildlife control. 11 while the twins will be in kindergarten at Coram Deo. Wade is starting fourth grade at Coram Deo Academy in Carmel Aug. Wade, now 10, has 5-year-old twin brothers, Ty and Cody. The one-day museum wasn’t held in 2020 because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Hutson presented what she calls her “3 brothers museum” for the third time in the family’s Carmel home July 31. “That’s how the idea came on and we just kept expanding.” “I thought, ‘Why don’t we do that and start a museum?’” Hutson said. In the story, four children spend a summer on an island, and they have an idea to make a museum of things they discovered. Four years ago, Hutson and her oldest son, Wade, were reading one of the Boxcar Children’s books.

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