Browsing through history: Ruth Ann Arkle looks through a pamphlet at the New Hampton Museum. The little puppy on the right wears a dog tag dating back to the early part of the last century in New Hampton. Thousands of items from New Hampton’s past are on display at the museum.
By Phil Conger
Ruth Ann Arkle has been battling most of her adult life to preserve New Hampton’s history.
That sometimes has led to conflict with people in a throwaway society where some of the community’s most important artifacts have been cast into the ditch or a landfill.