Opening day at Libby's Heritage Museum
Museum volunteer John Schneider with the Model T he bought for $10 as a sophomore in high school.
Greg Smith at Libby museum’s grand opening on Saturday, telling stories as a American fur trader in 1879. Smith is a living history presenter and worked as a ranger in Glacier National Park for 20 years.
Drew McLaury at the blacksmith’s forge, cranking the metal blower which replaced a leather and wood bellows common before about the 1880s.
Robert Viergutz explains the evolution of lighting mines to Atticus Karuzas at the Heritage Museum’s grand opening Saturday.
Forest service employee Paige Hageness and Smokey Bear at Libby museum’s grand opening on Saturday.
Tabitha Viergutz applies free face paint at Libby Museum’s grand opening on Saturday.
Libby’s Heritage Museum’s annual grand opening on Saturday, June 3, featured panning for gold, rides on a Model T, demonstrations of mining equipment and more. There also was square dancing and a living-history performance from Greg Smith which kept crowds in fits of laughter. “This is a day for the community to enjoy,” said museum President Charles McFarland.”