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Jonathon Naylor Editor Denare Beach's rich history will come alive this weekend. The Northern Gateway Museum will host its Discovery Day open house on Sunday, August 5, from 2-4 p.m. At 3 p.m. there will be speeches. New to the museum this year is a display on Denare Beach pioneer Harry Moody, focusing on his archeological work on Beaver Lake in the 1950s. Throughout August, the museum is hosting Portraits of the North, a traveling exhibit featuring pencil drawings of northern aboriginal people by renowned artist Gerald Kuehl. The museum also has children's books to give away. The museum is divided into two halves. The newer portion houses priceless artifacts, from First Nations beadwork to a statue of a native man carved from a single tree. The older portion is made up like a 1940s and '50s era home. Inside visitors find tokens of the past such as a hand-operated washing machine, a stove-heated iron and a bulky typewriter. The small passageway that joins the two buildings takes on an old-time appearance as well. Everything inside the corridor, including the fireplace and intricate wood carvings, belonged to the late Fred Shwaga, the one-time mayor of Denare Beach.
