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Anchoring in deep-rooted Pawnee County history
Santa Fe Trail Center director Seth McFarland looks to extend museum's impact
SFTC Seth McFarland 2023
While most museums have modernized to digital record-keeping, Santa Fe Trail Center Director Seth McFarland considers the SFTC's wooden card catalog a valuable research tool. (photo by Mike Gilmore)
LARNED — Seth McFarland likens his growing up years to a tumbleweed blowing in the wind. Even after becoming grounded in history through high school and college, he’d worked at five museums before getting the call over the summer in 2020 that the Santa Fe Trail Center in Larned was looking for a museum director.