Heritage Museum's opening day to include living history with Greg Smith

Opening day at the Heritage Museum at 1367 Highway 2 in Libby Saturday, June 3 will include the Montana Conversations program “A Visit With An 1879 American Fur Company Trader,” a living history performance with Greg Smith, according to a museum news release.

The presentation, set for 11:30 a.m. in the museum’s Beebe Room, is free and open to the public.

Smith brings to life the adventures and stories of James W. Schultz through the fictitious character of Jim Deakins, the news release states. As Deakins, Smith will describe the hunting of the last of the great bison herds in 1879 and in the adventures of the Blackfeet tribe and its enemy the Crow, among other stories from Montana history.

Smith, who lives in Bozeman, was a naturalist and backcountry ranger in Glacier National Park for almost 20 years, the news release states.

Funding for the Montana Conversations program is provided by Humanities Montana through grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Montana’s Cultural Trust, and private donations.

For more information, please call the museum at 406-293-7521.