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January 2020
Routine Patrol: Memoirs of a Small Town Cop By Bart Ringer
“Routine Patrol: Memoirs of a Small Town Cop” by Bart Ringer January 16th 6:30pm The Riverton Museum will host Bart Ringer for a Wyoming Community Bank Discovery Speakers Series program January 16th at 6:30pm at the Riverton Museum. Bart grew up in California, but developed a love of small Western towns visiting family in southeast Idaho. After serving in the Army, he attended Ricks College in Rexburg, Idaho. There, he met his wife, Marian, a Lander native, and the two…
Find out more »“From Clovis to Cowboy: Five Years of Archaeological Reconnaissance Between 10,000 and 13,800ft in the Wind River Mountains, Wyoming”
The iconic “Clovis to Cowboy” Wyoming Archaeology Month poster (1990) celebrated the long continuum of Wyoming’s cultural heritage during an era when common wisdom held that prehistoric people avoided alpine regions. Recent research has documented considerable human presence at high elevations throughout the Rockies.
Find out more »February 2020
Exploring Historic Computers
“Exploring Historic Computers” Feb 8th 2-4pm Join the Riverton Museum for this Bailey Tire/Pit Stop Children’s Exploration Series program February 8th from 2-4pm at the Riverton Museum. Computers existed all the way back to the 1940s, but unless you had a spare building to put it in, a spare substation to power the thing, a spare gazillion dollars to buy one, and a spare Ph. D. in electrical engineering, you probably didn't want one. The home computer age dawned in…
Find out more »“3rd Annual Murder Mystery Night at the Museum: Roaring 20’s”
“3rd Annual Murder Mystery Night at the Museum: Roaring 20’s” Feb 14th 5:30-9:30 pm Celebrating Valentine's day this year? Singles Awareness Day? Either way, you won't find a more fun and unique way to do so than our annual Murder Mystery Party! This year, we're going back to the Roaring 1920s, with an event called Murder at the Juice Joint. With the passing of prohibition and organized crime on the rise, The Juice Joint, a swanky speakeasy run by Rosie…
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