Dioramas sweeten visits to BC3 library
BUTLER TWP — The Peep Show at Butler County Community College has raised a few eyebrows.
“Steve said, 'What?'” said Nancy Seibel, the John A. Beck Jr. Library receiving secretary who suggested the show to her boss, Steve Joseph, dean for library services.
Joseph agreed after he realized that Seibel's Peeps are the sugared marshmallow candies made by Just Born of Bethlehem, Pa.
Like some other peep shows, this one is visible only through keyhole cutouts in the library foyer display case.
“Some of the men didn't want to look” because they didn't want to seem coarse, Seibel said. “I could only see how many people were viewing it by the nose smudges.”
Inside the case, Seibel arranged five dioramas featuring Peeps of multiple colors, like those in the extravagant dioramas in The Washington Post contest that inspired her.
She used shallow cardboard boxes to house her dioramas and a hot glue gun to place the Peeps and their props.
Two scenes include unused architectural renderings of Beck library featuring hardworking Peeps.Another shows Peeps relaxing at the beach.A fourth shows the long line at a pink Peeps restroom, and the short line for blue Peeps.The fifth display has dressed-up Peeps from “Downton Abbey,” the British television series shown on PBS in the United States.Seibel said she made the clothes from paper at home because she didn't want to spend her working hours on the Peep Show.These are Seibel's first Peeps dioramas. The display will be up through Friday, she said.
