Garret, I would absolutely not let them in the door. Plain and simple, for general relics or especially artillery.
It is all well and nice to showcase your collection and possibly spark interest in another person for Civil War relic collecting, but the risk isn't worth the chance. I always say, "what good is a collection if you can't share it". But being in the newspaper is way different than meeting a friend of a friend who has an interest in relics and has a few himself and would like to share conversation with you. That's great. That is totally different. But, once it goes in print, it is out there in cyberspace forever. And as pointed out by others here on the forums; the bad guys might eye your collection as a potential target for robbery.
I have been in the newspapers before, and interviewed on tv, for other interests of mine. It always amazes me how when edited, how misquoted I was, or chopped out of even finishing a sentence. Or, my point was not gotten across. I have personally vowed to never do an interview again, nor even be photographed at an event.
You / me / we all have too much riding here with our collections for some person seeing our interview, sitting back in their armchair, to think that it is not right for us to have this stuff, and for them to raise a stink, which on social media can burn and blaze like a wildfire.
Just my personal opinion. But I don't want to read about EOD taking your collection out to destroy because it was deemed a threat to your community. I would hate it for you. And that hurts all of us too, in the long run.