The Sweetwater County Historical Museum in Green River recently treated Kindergarten and 1st Grade classes to a live, virtual mini-tour of the museum.
Via cell phone and a live video link, Aidan Brady, the museum’s Public Engagement Coordinator, brought the museum to Mrs. Adkins’s classroom at Monroe School in Green River.
Brady’s topics included the history of the Christmas tree, vintage Christmas presents like Slinkies and Russian nesting dolls, dinosaurs, and the fact that Green River was once the bottom of a huge prehistoric lake.
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The video link enabled Brady to interact directly with Mrs. Adkins and her students, and he answered many questions from the children.
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Christmas Eve at the Ezra Emery home in Rock Springs, 1901. Ezra Emery, an important pioneer in long-distance automobile travel in Wyoming, is the man with the moustache in the bottom row.
By DICK BLUST
Sweetwater County Historical Museum
While searching through its photo archives recently, the staff at the Sweetwater County Historical Museum in Green River came across a unique holiday image from over a century ago - Christmas Eve at the Rock Springs home of one of the most important, yet largely unrecognized, figures in Wyoming history.
Ezra Lowman Emery - known as Good Roads Emery - was a groundbreaking civil engineer who mapped out an automobile roadway across southern Wyoming from Cheyenne, to Ogden, Utah in 1911 and 1912 along the corridor of the Union Pacific railroa.
While searching through its photo archives recently, the staff at the Sweetwater County Historical Museum in Green River came across a unique holiday image from over a century ago – Christmas Eve at the Rock Springs home of one of the most important, yet largely unrecognized, figures in Wyoming history.
Ezra Lowman Emery – known as “Good Roads” Emery – was a groundbreaking civil engineer who mapped out an automobile roadway across southern Wyoming from Cheyenne, to Ogden, Utah in 1911 and 1912 along the corridor of the Union Pacific railroad line. What he called the “Transcontinental Highway” became the Lincoln Highway, which was officially christened in 1913. Later the route evolved into U.S. Highway 30, then Interstate 80.
Weather Alert
.A Winter Storm continues to impact much of Central and Western
Wyoming Thursday.
.A storm system will bring widespread snow across much of the
area through Thursday, lingering over Johnson County through
Thursday night. The heaviest snow for this winter storm will
occur in most locations Thursday morning.
.WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL NOON MDT
TODAY. WHAT.Periods of snow. Additional snow accumulations up to 1
inch. 1 to 2 inches expected over eastern portions of Sweetwater
County. WHERE.South Lincoln County, Rock Springs and Green River,
Flaming Gorge, and East Sweetwater County. WHEN.Until noon MDT Thursday. IMPACTS.Plan on slippery road conditions and very low