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When Gov. Gavin Newsom ordered a statewide lockdown of California March 17, 2020, nobody could imagine what lay ahead. For Museum on Main Executive Director Jim DeMersman it meant immediately shifting his four-person team to working from home and shuttering the museum. With the exception two weeks in November 2020, the museum remained shut until […]

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