Ryedale Folk Museum

This week staff at the museum surprised director Mike Benson with an oversized card and a delicious chocolate birthday cake to mark a special birthday!  Happy Birthday Mike! Many happy returns.

From Shared Horizons Mike Benson, Director of Ryedale Folk Museum will be on BBC Radio Tees reviewing the papers on Saturday 13th November 2010 at 0930ish. Please tune in and listen, it's bound to be entertaining... http://www.bbc.co.uk/tees/programmes Jonathan S

From Shared Horizons Mike Benson, Director of Ryedale Folk Museum will be on BBC Radio Tees reviewing the papers on Saturday 13th November 2010 at 0930ish. Please tune in and listen, it's bound to be entertaining... http://www.bbc.co.uk/tees/programmes Jonathan S

Mike Benson here letting you know how I get on with my research trip In The Search of Ordinaryness ...I'm looking for people and institutions that just do good work everyday to the point it becomes everyday..ordinary..not average..Where the gap between what they say and what they do is minimal..where everyone gets what they are about..where they are (my favorite word) surefooted. This research trip is the final part of my Clore Fellowship I'm off to British Columbia to a place called Bella Bella to stay with Harvey Humchitt and his wife. I'm also going to visit New York, Boston and Chicago! More to follow Bella Bella. 22 Sep 2009 It is around 14:00 hrs Canadian Pacific time. I’ve just got of the plane in a place called Bella Bella home of the Heiltsuk in British Columbia after travelling for 40 hours. On the plane was a woman and her teenage son, her bag had on a great first nation design with the words Heiltsuk honouring our women. I gather from her conversation she ...