Al Kalbfleisch plays banjo with the Trail Center Philharmonic on Friday afternoon at the National Historic Trails Interpretive Center. The group will be playing at 9 a.m. and 12 p.m. today as part of the center's 5th Anniversary Celebration. Photo by Kerry Huller, Star-Tribune
Donna Murphy climbs down through a narrow panel in the floor of the Kistler Building on Center Street to a small room that was once part of a tunnel system under downtown Casper on Tuesday morning. The building, owned by Murphy's mother, Eva Babcock, may be listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Photo by Kerry Huller, Star-Tribune
Mark Martin talks about driving for the Jack Roush Racing team during NASCAR media day Thursday in Daytona Beach, Fla., as drivers and teams prepare for the Daytona 500. Photo by J. Pat Carter, AP.
Jay Straight, pictured here, is completing his senior year for the Wyoming Cowboys. File Photo Casper Star-Tribune.
Competitors saw a log in the man and woman handsaw team event at the Woodchoppers Jamboree and Rodeo in Encampment last summer. Photo by Noel V. Hayes Jr.
State engineers walk across the line of the reconstructed trestle that runs from the hoist house to the mill house (background) at the old Carissa Mine in South Pass City.The state is refurbishing the state historic site, which is one of the oldest mines in the state. Photo by JEFF GEARINO, Star-Tribune.
Wheatland assistant coach and state wrestling historian Spencer Condie works at his booth at the Casper Events Center on Friday. (Tim Kupsick, Star-Tribune)
Third-grader Madison Tinker helps her friend Hannah Welch put on her Cleopatra wig during a Painted Past workshop at Paradise Valley Elementary Wednesday. Photo by TIM KUPSICK, Star-Tribune.
Cherie and Dave Stricker stand with their children Corey, 16, and Danielle, 19, during a final family gathering in Dave's parent's home on Aug. 13, in Traverse City, Michigan. The Strickers left early the next morning to start a new life in Sheridan, Wyoming after struggeling to stay in their home town. Michigan has taken an exceptionally hard economic hit over the past few years, and many people there are finding work in Wyoming. Photo by Dan Cepeda, Star-Tribune
The Stricker's house sits on land that has been in the family for generations in Traverse City, Michigan. Dave's parents live within sight of the house. Photo by Dan Cepeda, Star-Tribune
Wyoming National Guard Staff Sgt. and Douglas Middle School history teacher, Evan Bock, helps his student, Jaaron Rittel try on his flak jacket during class in early April. Bock, who will be deploying to the Middle East, showed his classes a slide show of photos from his second deployment in 2004 to Kuwait, so they wouldn't worry too much about him. Photo by Kerry Huller, Star-Tribune
Emily Moore, center, of Gillette runs in the Class 4A 100-meter dash trials on Friday during the 2009 Wyoming State High School Track and Field Championships in Casper. Photo by Kerry Huller, Star-Tribune
Inscription Rock at El Morro National Monument rises above the plateau of northwest New Mexico on. (AP Photo/Heather Clark)
E. Pen Long of Baltimore, Md., chiseled one of the more elegant inscriptions probably in 1859 at El Morro National Monument in northwestern New Mexico. (AP Photo/Heather Clark)
Steve Baumann, archeologist at El Morro National Monument, poses beside a Spanish inscription that says Ramon Garcia Jurado "passed by here" in 1709 at El Morro National Monument in northwest New Mexico. (AP Photo/Heather Clark)
Timeline shows the history of Nintendo's Mario franchise
Tim Kupsick, Star-TribuneDavid Turner and his son Jared climb to the top of Independence Rock Monday afternoon. The Turner's stopped at Independence Rock as apart of their childrens studies of the Oregon Trail. The Turners are back from a missionary trip to Bolivia to file reports and visit friends and family for the holidays.
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