Three people, one dome, and a donated mirror
Cedar Hollow started as a single 14-inch mirror donated to the high school science department, and a projector bought secondhand from a planetarium that had closed two states over. It took six years of weekend fundraising to build the dome that now houses both.
We are not a city museum with a research staff. We are three people - a retired teacher, a machinist, and a college student home for the summer - who run every show, clean every seat, and open the roof by hand when the sky is worth it.
Admission stays low because the building is paid off and the volunteers are not paid at all. What we ask instead is that you actually look up.
