My Sincere Apoligies

After reading your comments on my resent post I realized that Yes I was upset and unclear, If I lead you to believe that the museum had not received any support from the town of Mansfield
that Clearly is Not True!
We have had Mansfield residents donate their time, family memobilia, students who volunteer regularly, a Mansfield resident built free of charge the stands that held our displays at the state house, Our town manager has visited the museum, the Mansfield rotary club made a donation that gave us the funding to purchase a projector, the Mansfield nonprofit grant fund, overseen by the Mansfield board of selectmen, provided the funds for us to purchase TTV monitors so we could play DVD's on different displays or facts of history, the local restaurants have donated food to our events, but Mansfield residents didn't show so food had to be given away to a shelter, I did not say we didn't receive any support, I said that the support was minimal, I mean that the patronage was at best minimum. I also meant that the town doesn't support the arts in general and let me be clear, that my sisters may or may not share my views on certain issues that this is my personal opinion. the robbery upset me because we now have to rethink our open door policy at the museum. The museum doors are always open to patrons, the entrance is set up to do a self guided tour  I don't think that the robbery was planned or was a personal attack on us but in fact a robbery of opportunity, the bag was laying on the counter and no one was around. as far as the money that was taken who knows what was going on in that persons life Desperate times bring Desperate measures. I am a God fearing woman who believes that everything happens for a reason and lessons are learned as a result, My family has been a presence in Mansfield for twenty years, We are a family museum and we treat the museum as such, we wanted to create an environment where people would feel comfortable and eager to take the journey into our legacy, so we don't have security cameras or have our dolls enclosed in cases we encourage people to interact with certain to be able to touch and feel the experience and history behind our dolls and yes we do realize that museums depend mostly on tourists and out of town visitors as a result we have been able to keep our doors open I just feel (my personal opinion)that the town of Mansfield is rich in history, culture and diversity, as such, it has so much to offer to the public at large, we have houses here that played a major role in the slavery act, we have a lot of things going on here that as a whole is not supported. We have music & arts, an art gallery, a diversity club created by a Mansfield resident & teacher, we have the mural going on, our museum is the first on the east coast, the second in the country & the largest in the world! Although we struggle daily to keep our doors open I wouldn't want  our museum to be anywhere else but here, I just feel as a town specifically my fellow residents that we don't embrace the opportunity to grow into a town that is known for it's contribution to history. being located in a heavily populated town ,according to our town records 93.2% Caucasian , 2.2% Black, 1.1% Asian,1.4% Hispanic,0.9% American Indian, 0.2% other race,0.1% Hawaiian and other Pacific Islanders, my point? I find it disheartening that the bulk of our support come from outside of Mansfield, my question is
Why is That?
but make no mistake I love my town I live here too!