Researching some Haines history from the early 1970s last week, I stopped at the Haines Sheldon Museum and was led to the town’s archives where I found what I was looking for in some old newspapers.

If the Haines Borough Assembly eliminates museum funding, such a simple research mission might become impossible.

What does closure or loss of our local museum mean? It means that our collective database, our town history, becomes a matter of…