Final week to view ‘Second Annual Sandbar Exhibit’

The “Second Annual Sandbar Exhibit” is in its final week of exhibition at the Natrona County Library. The free exhibit will end at the close of business at the library on Friday, March 15.

Presented by the Casper College Western History Center, the traveling exhibit and living library were curated by Casper College students Rae Mann, Veronica Mojica, Schuyler Fox, and Jessica Padilla.

According to Hanz Olson, librarian and archivist at Casper College, the exhibit is in the Second Street side atrium display cases. “We based last year’s exhibit on the order of chapters in Walter Jones’ history book, “History of the Sandbar (1888-1977),” but this year, we went off the map, so to speak, with the addition of a play the NCL gave us after last year’s show and materials from a couple of other collections,” said Olson. “Rae and I worked on an archival research activity using last year’s exhibit and put a QR code for it in this year’s exhibit. We have a more robust blueprint for things we can do with future iterations of the exhibit,” he noted.

“History of the Sandbar (1888-1977)” contains 10 chapters, and Olson plans to do something different each year based on some aspect of the Sand Bar once a year for 10 years; with the current exhibit, eight years and eight new exhibits remain.

The NCL is open Monday-Thursday from 9 a.m.-7 p.m. and Friday from 9 a.m.-5 p.m.

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