Emond retires from PC Museum after nine years

After nine years of being the curator of the Phillips County Museum, Sharon Emond retired last week and as a celebration of her time spent at the museum, friends and family showed up Friday afternoon to bid her farewell.

"This is wonderful and kind of exciting," said Emond."I've got mixed emotions because this has really become a passion. I am going to miss the people and the staff who works here so I have mixed emotions."

Emond said that she was working at the Phillips County Library prior to her start at the Phillips County Museum and when she fond out that the curator's position was open she jumped at the opportunity.

"I like history and I love this county so I thought, let me go try that," she said. History didn't come easy to Edmonds s in her school days she didn't care much for the subject. Over the years, however, she has grown more found of the topic and because, for the most, she was raised in Phillips County, she said she became passionate for knowing more about the area's history.

"It's a living history really," Edmonds said. "At the Library we were getting lost of genealogy requests and I thought that was neat so that kind of propelled me in that direction."

Emond and her husband, Noel, have been married for 60 years and now that Sharon is retired the couple hopes to do some traveling and spend time with family.

"We want to have some retirement years to do some funs things," she said. "First we are going to go to Arizona, where we have been going for the last three years, and then travel to see the children and grandchildren. They are all in the state of Montana now, so that should be pretty easy."

Emond said the wildest things she has ever seen while working at the museum might seem tame to some and might scare the heck out of others.

"Snakes," she said. "We have had two of them here. I don't do snakes."

Edmond said that she loves all of the exhibits at the Phillips County Museum, but cited the Kid Curry and Dinosaur – Elvis -- displays at the top of the list.

"I guess because those are the ones that people seem to enjoy the best," she said.

Emond thanked everyone she has worked with for making the job so interesting and then thanked all the people who frequented the museum day in and day out.

"It has been great," she said.