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Saturday, July 26, 2008
WILD WEST LIVES ON AT BUTCH CASSIDY DAYS
July 24-26 visitors to Montpelier, Idaho have the chance to re-live the wild Wild West. In 1896 Butch Cassidy and two other men, Bub Meeks and Elzy Lay robbed the Montpelier Bank. Citizens of Montpelier have used this event to re-create a bit of the old west every third weekend in July. This year's celebration will be filled with food, activities and entertainment. Festivities start Thursday July 24 at 10 a.m. with the craft fair and the carnival at Wells C. Stock Park. Later that evening in the Allinger Community Theatre inside the National Oregon/California Trail Center there will be a "Quick Draw" performed by Idaho artist Gary Stone and his wife Bev. This is not a traditional quick draw with guns. Gary will sketch on black paper with white chalk the diary entry Bev reads in about a minute and a half. - Idaho State Journal
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