Heather: So one of the things I do want to say is that the Rockpile Museum, over the last few years, has stepped up their game in trying to bring that community vibrance. Make sure you go up there. We have two, we have a new exhibit called the Wyoming Cowboy Hall of Fame, so that is just ringing with Wyoming history.

And you really have to look. There's a display there where it's a touch screen, and it goes through, and a lot of these will be videos. And, I mean, we had the governor here the other day, and he was so moved that's a really cool thing, to be able to share Wyoming histories with other people, that they knew them, and the, and the gentleman that he saw had passed away. 

And, there isn't anything better to me than honoring people for what they did. And because Wyoming, because of the grit and determination here... that's pretty cool. And then on the polar opposite, we're doing something, we're doing a public art install called the Parade of Pronghorns.

I don't know if you've heard anything about this.

Nichole: Okay. No, tell me more.

Heather: So there are 10 full life-size pronghorns that have been painted by five local artists and five regional artists. I get to be one of them. So you'll have to go up there. Mine has hidden stars that actually glow in the dark, so they charge during the day, and then they glow at night.

But it's fascinating. All of them are just really cool. So here we have this whole dichotomy. We're having a Sheepherders Festival. We have the Wyoming Cowboy Hall of Fame. We have Pronghorns on Parade. And the cool thing about that, when they first started to come to us, like they brought them from Omaha, Nebraska, out of, it's all, it's called Icon Poly, the wind caught them when we had one of those horrible storms, grabbed the trailer, smashed it to smithereens.

There were pronghorn parts all over the highway. So that's kind of our redemption story now. They came back, and we painted them, and so very, very fun. And we have a fundraiser in September.

Nichole: Thank you. Thank you for sharing. 

Note: This was recorded live at the Sheepherder’s Festival in Gillette, WY and includes background crowd noise.

The transcript above has been condensed from its original audio recording to improve the flow and readability of the story.