SWEETWATER COUNTY — Dave Mead, Executive Director of the Sweetwater County Historical Museum in Green River, expressed his special thanks to the volunteers and others who made possible this year’s four-day Third Grade History Fair, May 10 through May 13.

Over 700 students from all over the county took part this year. Each received a guided tour of the museum, reviewed special exhibits and demonstrations about ranching, mining, mountain men, Native Americans, and the railroad at Centennial Park, and participated in hands-on activities grounded in frontier history such as gold panning, making their own butter, simulated calf branding, and simulated railroad spike-driving.

Among the volunteers who made this year’s event possible were Bud Allen, Stan Blake, Diane Butler, Sarah Crow, Dennis Freeman, Mike Masterson, Richelle Rawlings-Carroll, Landry Roskelley, Emilio Sanchez, Madeline Trujillo-Hamel, and Carrie Tuttle.