You never know what someone is going to bring to the Whittier Museum. Majority of the time it’s copies of Whittier High yearbooks or Whittier Daily newspapers; but every so often it’s something very unexpected. At the beginning of August, during the sixth month of our temporary closure, I was contacted by Sarah Hall, a Whittier resident, who was inquiring if the museum would be interested in accepting a homemade telescope built by a former Whittier resident, Paul Nemecek. Sarah’s father, Mike Pavelski, had acquired Nemecek’s telescope years ago as a keepsake from Nemecek’s family, but was now unable to …
