Mr. Mayor, Members of the
City Council, and Honored Guests,
Thank you for coming
today. I’d like to thank the City and
everyone else who has been so supportive of this museum, including the College
Hill businesses, Wells Fargo, Vintage Rose, our landlord, Tim’s Corner, my family and friends, my Husband and our
son, and above all my Mom and Dad, how I wish they had lived to be here. I’d like to begin my brief comments with this
quote by noted author Anne Rice, who was herself a doll collector;
“When you loved dolls and studied them, you
started to love all kinds of people too, because you saw the virtue in their
expressions, how carefully they had been sculpted, the parts contrived to
create the triumph of this or that remarkable face.” Anne Rice, Taltos.
Dolls are among the
oldest human artifacts, and toys have inspired rocket scientists, artists, and
many others to create amazing things.
All we have of many cultures who have disappeared from the earth are
their dolls and toys. This is one reason
they are important, and need to be preserved.
The dolls and toys in this museum, both at this location, and at
our future location at the 30/31 library represent the cultures of those who
have settled in our community, as well as the efforts of those who have set up
their businesses to make dolls and toys here.
They are objects of
nostalgia, of history, of art. The Quad
Cities have been home to me for most of my life, and the objects in this
collection were curated largely from our community, and from all over the
world.
Our museum is open to all
and we welcome anyone who wants to learn about us, about QCA toy stories, about
dolls and toys in general. But, we’re
also open to kids of all ages, from on month to over 100, and we hope everyone
will come here, stay to visit, and learn to think out side the doll house.
Thank you.
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