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Original FFA banner donated to museum

The Crook County Museum took ownership of a special piece of local history last week as the Sundance FFA chapter delivered the original banner that commemorated their organization's founding many decades ago. The donation is intended to mark a special occasion for FFA while preserving its long history in this area.

"The FFA is in its ninetieth year this year and we got to looking and our original charter is still hanging in our classroom – it was signed in 1929," says FFA advisor Brian Kennah.

"There are still signatures from the original members and some of those names are still familiar around here. It's kind of interesting and we thought we should be doing something to celebrate our history."

The banner was found folded in a closet. Museum Director Rocky Courchaine believes it likely once hung in the old high school, Old Stoney.

"We thought, this is an artifact, there's a long tradition of FFA in Crook County and it would be nice to have something hanging in the museum," he says.

The kids also uncovered a tub full of old scrapbooks that Courchaine says he would love to add to the library collection.