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SMITHSONIAN EXHIBIT TO VISIT BLAINE COUNTY

Beginning September 3rd, the Blaine County Historical Museum will be alive with an exhibit from the Smithsonian Institution.

Journey Stories--tales of how we and our ancestors came to America and have moved across the continent--are a central part of our personal heritage. In the exhibit, accounts of travelers themselves express the hopes and promises, grim realities and fresh starts that have made today's America.

Where are YOU from? What is YOUR story? --These are the questions the exhibit asks us to consider.

Articles from the museum's permanent display, especially those regarding Native Americans and the Chinese, will be highlighted and incorporated into the Smithsonian exhibit.

Many local organizations--including the Ski Heritage Museum, the Trailing of the Sheep, the Hailey Public Library, and local schools--will join the Historical Museum in presenting displays, performances, lectures, and projects.

Journey Stories is part of Museum on Main Street, a collaboration between the Smithsonian Institution and the Federation of State Humanities Councils. Support for Museum on Main Street has been provided by the United States Congress, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, and the Hearst Foundation. Journey Stories has been made possible in Idaho by the Idaho Humanities Council and the National Endowment for the Humanities "We the People" Program.

HERITAGE COURT CELEBRATES SEVENTH YEAR

The Blaine County Historical Museum is honoring four women this summer in
the seventh annual Heritage Court festivities. As is traditional, local
community organizations from the various towns nominated ladies who
have contributed to the history and heritage of the county.

The ladies were treated to an early summer tea at the Dollar House in Sun Valley, hosted

by the Ketchum-Sun Valley Ski and Heritage Museum.

On Sunday, June 16, the formal coronation ceremony and reception will be held at the
Liberty Theatre at three o'clock. Each lady will be escorted to the stage by her town's mayor.

This year's court includes--

Fern Stephenson, nominated by the Hailey Masonic Lodge

Jean Pyrah, nominated by the Carey Senior Connection

Sally Donart, nominated by the Ketchum/Sun Valley Community Library

Phyllis Stelma of Bellevue, nominated by the Lions Club

After the coronation the ladies will begin their participation in the county's summer parades: the Fourth of July in Hailey, Pioneer Days in Carey, Wagon Days in Ketchum, and Labor Day in Bellevue.

For more information on the Heritage Court, past and present, including pictures and links to Karen Bossick's newspaper articles about each lady, click on "Heritage Court" at the top of this page.

RECENT ACQUISITIONS

* Beaver Burke has donated the 1898 wedding dress and other clothing of Emily Trowbridge Burke. She was the grandmother of John (Stoney) Burke and was married in Little Ross Valley, California.

* Julie Keierleber has donated a woman's deerhide fringed jacket evocative of our valley's trapping and pioneer heritage.

* Helen Bolton has donated an Idaho-themed silver plate celebrating the U.S. Bicenntenial, 1776-1976.

*Dan Springer has donated a single-jack mining drill that will take its place in the museum's exhibit dedicated to our mining history.