We’re continuing our 75th anniversary celebration with another unforgettable community story! This time, from someone who grew up with the Museum woven into her earliest memories. 🥹 Jeannine Perrot, daughter of former CMoG Director Paul N. Perrot, remembers visiting the exhibit hall in the mid‑1960s and encountering an object that felt larger than life: our 200-inch Hale Telescope mirror blank. “Entering the dark exhibit hall that featured the bright yellow telescope mirror… there was an aura of awe and silence in that black, velvety space. I know we had to whisper and walk quietly. I didn’t understand what I was looking at. I thought the bright yellow honeycomb structure with the central glory hole was where people died and went to heaven. I thought it was a very scary place. It was only years later that I learned it was, at the time, the largest single piece of glass ever made.” Today, the mirror blank remains a symbol of bold innovation, monumental ambition, and the many stories...