Shared by Sandy Chamberlain Spring has sprung and with that comes thoughts of flowers and butterflies! We have a wonderful collection of butterfly specimens at Tioga Point Museum, donated by Robert Crandall. It is believed he collected these during the 1930’s, when he was in college in Arizona and locally while he was a volunteer at the museum. Robert Heggie Crandall, born in 1915, was a prominent nature photographer and was a former Athenian. He began his career as a boy

Shared by Sandy Chamberlain Unless you’re new to the Valley area, you’ve no doubt heard of Queen Esther. She was quite a memorable figure in the early history of this area. The stories about her vary. She has been described as kind and agreeable by her neighbors, the Stropes. But to kin of those killed at Wyoming, she was “the most infamous of the Montours, the fiend of Wyoming.” Using information from our archives, I hope to shed a little light on what her life was like. Y