Phillips County Museum News for Wednesday, September 15, 2021

“Treasure” is defined as a valuable object.

Treasure comes in all shapes and sizes and surprising it might even be a slip of paper. The Museum was given several paper letters that are “treasures”. The letters were hand-written by a schoolteacher in Caldwell, Montana to her mother who lived in the East.

Here is an excerpt from a letter about a 1920’s country dance she attended. She writes “The dance was all I had hoped for! An old-fashioned fiddler but playing up-to-date modern songs! And the men in this country sure can dance. Everyone was a graceful dancer. You see this wild country is appropriately tame at times. Supper was served about 3:30 and the party broke up at sunrise.”

What a story she tells in her letters. How many of our readers can remember the fun dances at First Creek Hall?? To read more about our young teacher’s adventures visit the Museum! Museum hours are 10-5 Monday through Saturday.