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Scavenger hunts highlight hidden items at Augusta museum

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2 years ago

April 8, 2024

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Scavenger hunts highlight hidden items at Augusta museum

AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) – The Augusta Museum of History is unveiling a couple of new scavenger hunts.

We stopped by to find out why they started doing this.

“We’re constantly walking around the museum, and every time I do, something new catches my eye,” said Krystal Lyon, who started working there last summer.

Since then, she’s continued discovering little details all over the museum. Now, she’s putting some of them into two new scavenger hunts.

“Sometimes when you go through a museum, you’re just like, walking through a room, and you don’t pay attention to all the posters, or all the text that’s on the wall, but with these scavenger hunts, you have to really be an investigator or a little reporter,” she said.

One scavenger hunt focuses on music from Augusta, and it goes beyond James Brown. The other is a second-floor scavenger hunt targeted for kids, featuring a lot of counting and “I Spy.”

“We’ve tried to make it fun and exciting, and a little bit hard, but also just a lot of fun,” said Lyon.

Our Will Volk decided to take on one of the challenges. He found everything and picked up his reward: a sticker.

Lyon thinks you’ll get another reward too — a better understanding of the museum.

“It’s great for little kids. It’s great for adults. One of the things that it will do is it’ll open your eyes,” she said.

If you’re interested in giving this a try, you can go anytime the museum is open.

The scavenger hunts are included with your admission.

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From Augusta roots to Nighthawks leader: Nolan Belcher comes home

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8 hours ago

March 29, 2026

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From Augusta roots to Nighthawks leader: Nolan Belcher comes home

AUGUSTA, Ga. (WJBF)- Augusta University baseball is in a three-game series matchup against the University of North Georgia.

AU is currently down in the series 0-2 after a close loss Friday and a loss Saturday.

But we aren’t focusing on the Jags, we’re going to take a look at North Georgia’s head coach, Nolan Belcher.

He is an Augusta native who began his career at Greenbrier and Augusta Christian.

He won three state championships, which then led him to play for the South Carolina Gamecocks.

There he won back-to-back national championships and finished runner up in 2012.

His coaching career began after that where he eventually joined the Peach belt Confrence, coaching at USCA and GCSU.

Now in his first season as head coach for the Nighthawks, he is happy to come home and coach in front of his friends and family.

“I’m very fortunate that I got family that, one is still around and they can come watch me do what I love. And, they’ve shown me, nothing but support throughout my whole coaching career and even back on my playing dates are very thankful and appreciative for everything they’ve done for me.”

AU and UNG will have their final series match on Sunday.

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