JOYCE — A new wing of the Joyce Museum will be dedicated with speeches and perhaps horse carriage rides Saturday.
The ceremony will begin at 1:30 p.m. at the Joyce Museum, 51001 state Highway 112.
The new wing was constructed with funds provided by the Myrtle and John Gossett Charitable Foundation and is dedicated to the memory of the Gossetts, who were lifelong Joyce residents and active community members.
Among other historical memorabilia, the Gossett Wing — a separate building from the main museum, connected to it by a boardwalk — houses a 1915 Republic truck which was donated by veterans of World War I in the late 1960s or early 1970s, said Mary Pfaff-Pierce, president of the Joyce Museum Society.
“It had been stored in various barns and buildings for years,” said Pfaff-Pierce, who is also the co-owner of the Joyce General Store and a Port Angeles attorney.
“We didn’t have a place to display it.”
An 1890 Studebaker runabout horse carriage donated by the Wetherald family also is housed in the new wing.
Carriage rides
Weather permitting, Margaret Wetherald Sallstrom will provide guests with carriage rides.
Directors of the Gossett Foundation will be introduced, as well as officers of the Joyce Museum Society and contractors for the Gossett Wing.
The new addition is named for the Gossetts, who formed a charitable foundation that provides scholarships and funds projects, mostly in Joyce.
John Gossett — who was born in 1909 in Port Crescent, a town that once existed at Crescent Beach — died in 2002; Myrtle Gossett died in 2006, Pfaff-Pierce said.
Foundation board members are Charles McClain, Ray Divacky and Kathy Hamilton.
The new wing was built by Country Homes of Port Angeles.
The main museum is housed in the former Joyce Railroad Depot — a log building constructed in 1915.
The museum displays West End memorabilia, including railroad history and photos and artifacts of Port Crescent, Gettysburg, Disque, Twin, Piedmont, Fort Hayden at Tongue Point, Lake Crescent, Sol Duc and Joyce.
Summer hours for the museum are from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday through Labor Day.
For more information, phone 360-928-3568.
