ATHENS, Tenn. — Hey, kids. Where’s Abbie?
The McMinn County Living Heritage Museum is pretty sure children will know.
Abbie is a doll who usually can be found in the museum’s doll collection. But in the tradition of Flat Stanley, Waldo or the traveling gnome, the museum is beginning its own traveling cutout program with Abbie, Executive Director Diane Hutsell said.
‘”Where’s Abbie’ is one of many ways we want to make the museum more interactive,” Ms. Hutsell said. “Museums have changed in the past few years from static displays. People want to be more than spectators.”
Abbie is a wooden-jointed doll, dressed in a black silk dress with a white collar and bonnet. According to the museum’s history, she was created in 1745 in Rhode Island.