Mountain man in front of his hunting cabin at the Big sandy Museum.
Tina Rodewald, who heads up the Big Sandy Museum, says to stop in as the entire museum is being refreshed and there are plenty of new exhibits to see and explore from 10 until 4 until Labor Day.
Traci Rodewald, is the woman in charge of the museum, and she has worked hard to make museum mannequins dressed in the kind of garb they should be wearing for the period they are representing. For instance Tina said that the Mountain Cowboy has never looked better and is worth a look this summer at his setting in front of the old and tiny log cabin that could be seen at one time in most every Bear Paw coulee. Some remains are still in coulees to this day, but if you want to go inside and see how some of the old timers really lived through very cold winters and very hot summers, visit this wonderful exhibit!
New last year, and not viewed by a great many, is the famed Huber tractor on the museum grounds.
For many people, coming back to Big Sandy, about the only contact with their relatives who homesteaded here is the famous Big Sandy Memory Book. If a family homesteaded here, chances are that someone has written something about them in the Memory or "Green Book" as it is affectionately referred.
There are some of the "Green Books" still available for sale at the museum. They cost $45.00 and arrangements can be made to send them
people not living here anymore but who might be interested in hearing about their ancestors.
So far as history goes, the "Green Book" is the only really invaluable record of what happened here and why it happened the way it did.
It is enough to say that the museum is world class in our community and covers something about most everyone who has ever lived in this region.
You can never see it too many times. There is always something new and always something that has been there for twenty years but you have just missed it.
Also, it is a great place to take visitors when planning things for them to do in this area.
