There were no ring-ins, just a couple of people from Campbell Town - they're from the North and they're welcome to paint with us.

Each exhibit involves an enormous amount of behind-the-scenes planning and execution. He truly is a jack-of-all-trades, from creating ideas, building models for exhibits, writing and keeping up with the ever-changing computer and printing needs of the museum.

It's a huge job that he does.

It was hard for me to do the show (All American Girl) because a lot of people didn't even understand the concept of Asian-American. I was on a morning show, and the host said, 'Awright, Margaret, we're changing over to an ABC affiliate! So why don't you tell our viewers in your native language that we're making that transition?' So I looked at the camera and said, 'Um, they're changing over to an ABC affiliate.'

Traditionally, natives did not put wings on their totem poles, but many people want wings on them.

I'm not a good butcher but I've had to learn to carve the joint. People expect a new look.