⢠At the
state track meet in Torrington, Jackson Hole High School sophomore Susan Stone won two hurdle titles, finished second in the 100-yard dash and took third in the long jump.
⢠About 180 people participated in the
Miles for Money fundraiser for the Learning Center. Some biked, some walked. Steve Rogers and his son Eric claimed they made the Guinness Book of World Records by throwing a softball 1,086 times without a miss as they walked.
⢠Radio station KMTN encouraged people to put one of its bumper stickers on their car for a chance to win an AM-FM radio.
⢠St. Johnâs Hospitalâs $119,000 debt was complicating the transfer of ownership to the new hospital district. A state statute prohibited a public body from accepting that debt.
Walking around Timbered Island one day in the 1990s I spied something that didnât fit the landscape. When I was closer I saw a chain-link fence about armpit high enclosing a small rectangle.
I suspected as soon as I saw the shape and some plastic flowers stuck to the wire: I went straight up, looked down and saw what I expected.
It was a grave. I was elated.
If youâre a person who understands that reaction, you will enjoy Earle Layserâs new book, âJackson Holeâs Buried History: The Funerary Landscape Unearthed.â Layser, an amateur historian with several previous books, is a man who appreciates a good burial ground.