Nutcrackers looking for new home

Clara Stahlbaum’s friends have a week to find a new home, and it doesn’t have to be the Land of Sweets.
Main Street Coordinator Joan McManus said the Nutcracker Museum housed on South Second Street in a portion of the Liberty Building has to be out by next Sunday.
The museum site, which once housed an insurance agency; the next door unit, which once housed a barber shop; and that part of the Liberty Building to the alley on the north side, as well as the upstairs portion, has been sold to a Seattle, Wash. couple.
McManus said the new owners have plans to develop retail space in the museum-old barber shop area.
Caswell and the retail outlet between his law office and the old barber shop have leased their locations from the new owners.
The nutcrackers, of course, are figures inspired by the popular ballet of the same name, with music by Tchaikovsky.
McManus is scrambling to find them a new home, saying she desperately wants to keep the collection donated to the city in 2009 in the Second-Park area in order for it to benefit most from Liberty Theater’s Saturday foot traffic.