Museum board plans teepee replacement, spring events

The H. Earl Clack Museum Board met for their monthly meeting Monday, and discussed the repair or replacement of the teepee located at the Wahkpa Chu’gn Buffalo Jump and conversed about upcoming events this spring.

H. Earl Clack Memorial Museum Board Chair Lela Patera said the teepee just ripped apart when Kelly Jones and Gregg Carlson, who are volunteers at the Buffalo Jump took it off.

“It’s not fixable, I should say so we are going to order a new one,” she said. “He (Carlson) and Kelly Jones have been working diligently on that and have come up with one.”

She added that the H. Earl and Margaret Turner Clack Memorial Museum Foundation Board has approved the museum board to order a new one once they pick one out.

“It’ll be up before the Wahkpa Chu’gn is open in for the spring,” Patera said.

The annual Hands on History event the museum hosts is set for a tentative date Saturday, April 18.

“Return to Downtown Abbey,” is the theme for this year’s annual Tea Party fundraiser and is set for Saturday, April 25.

Hands on History is an event that started 12 years ago and has become very popular with children.

The board also plans to continue to move more museum items from the Great Northern Fairgrounds into their new location.

Patera said once the weather is nice enough the board will move more items off the fairgrounds.

Clack Museum Director Emily Mayer said her first day back to the museum was Feb. 4 after being off for quite some time, so no H. Earl Clack Memorial Museum and Buffalo Wahkpa Chu’gn reports were presented.

H. Earl and Margaret Turner Clack Memorial Museum Foundation Board President Elaine Morse was excused and no foundation report was given.

The H. Earl Clack Memorial Museum Board will hold its next regular meeting Monday, March 9, at 6 p.m. in Havre Inn and Suites.