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🏛️ Explore Past Exhibits
🧵The Courage to Begin Again
Step Inside: Meet the woman who went back to school at 46, the geologist who became an economic developer, the homemaker who built three careers, and the man who mastered three completely different professions. Discover what gives someone the courage to start fresh—and why expertise might be the foundation for the biggest risks we take.
🧵The Love of Sharing
Step Inside: Meet the cooking teacher who turned personal crisis into community healing, the coach who found his greatest joy mentoring youth, the librarian who made learning irresistible, and the recovery guide who helped others belong. Discover what drives people to share their knowledge—and how these informal teachers create the connections that hold communities together.
🧵Loving the Work of Our Hands
Step Inside: Meet four people who found deep satisfaction not in what they achieved, but in what they created with their own two hands. From woodshops to flower studios, discover why the simple act of making things might be the secret to resilience, meaning, and joy—and what neuroscience reveals about our evolved need to shape the world around us.
🧵What Survived the American Experiment?
Step Inside: We examine lives built from inherited pieces rather than promised foundations. What does it mean to adapt, survive, and innovate within the outcomes of decades-long experiments? Plus, the final chapter of a personal reckoning with living as data in America's ongoing laboratory.
🧵The Variables: Who Gets Tested in America?
Step Inside: We examine lives shaped by institutional forces—from fire departments to corrections to refugee resettlement. What does it mean to navigate systems rather than choose them? Plus, the personal reckoning with living as a variable in America's ongoing experiment.