Museum Offers Breakfast On Saturday Morning
Piping Hot Pancakes Ready For All
Individuals can check out the new additions at the Wolf Point Area Museum during the museum’s annual pancake breakfast from 7-11 a.m. on Saturday, July 11.
Montie Page, curator, is excited about the progress being made with the new addition, which includes cubicles of different historical parts of the community including a movie theater, radio station, blacksmith shop, horse wagon and sleigh, automobile shop, newspaper shop and hospital.
Page noted that Dr. Mark Zilkoski donated an examination table and X-ray machine while the clinic donated photos of past physicians for the hospital’s area.
After museum board member Jim Marmon and high school students started construction work on the expansion project last school year, Page worked during the winter months.
An interesting part of the area’s history was added to the Wolf Point Area Museum recently when R.J. Doornek and family loaned a Portland cutter and an antique buckboard wagon to the facility.
Jim Marmon of the museum board said the items will be honored additions of the museum’s expansion town area. The cutter and wagon will be placed in a cubicle between a blacksmith shop and a Model T from the 1920s.
“We’re showing advancements in technology,” Marmon said of the expansion, which will also feature a 1960’s garage.
The other side of the street will include a movie theater, newspaper office, doctor’s office and post office.
While at the museum, people might enjoy looking at photos from Stampedes taken from many years ago. One older group photo is from 1921.
Officials add that Stampede week is the busiest time of the year for the museum. Many of the people visiting like touring the museum prior to the night’s rodeo.
