Silverton school teacher Whitney Gaskill’s fourth and fifth grade students made a number of field trips and did extensive research to make many contributions to this latest major exhibit at the Silverton Museum. As the primary occupants of this area prior to the white settlements in the second half of the nineteenth century, the Ute Indians and their culture is an important area of study for our understanding of the land in which we live.
As we missed our 2022 Courier publication due to a clerical error (my fault) last year, I will give a recap of the new exhibits for both last year and this year.
Early last fall we acquired a Chinese Opium Bed. It is original to Silverton but had spent the last twenty years in Telluride. It is very well made of what I believe is cherry wood. The front panel is beautifully hand carved ...
