WOW! What a terrific surprise it is! Having been a part of the Museum and the Historical Society for the past several years, I’ve been amazed at the progress Curator Kathy Scranton has made with the new Big Timbers Transportation Museum. YAY! Good job Kathy!

When we arrived in Colorado from a trip to the east coast, we were invited to the Truck Stop for dinner and I noticed the digging and heavy equipment behind the museum. At first, I thought it was something with the highway department, then I realized it was the museum building Kathy Scranton had been working on as the Curator of the Big Timbers Museum.

When grants became available from the Department of Transportation, Kathy went to work, first contacting everyone who might know something about it, then working every spare moment to get the grant written. She had plenty of helpers visiting the museum frequently to help her put the words on paper, get the grant written and out. Often guests in the museum offered thoughts and ideas or suggestions.

Members of the board literally put in extra effort (several hours, a trip to Pennsylvania and building a new business) to get more information about the wagons the County Commissioners had purchased to include them in the new Big Timbers Transportation Museum. The plan was to build a museum building big enough to show the overflow from the Big Timbers and the transportation items available to the Prowers County Historical Society.

The new building is well on its way with foundations and footings being poured already, right there on the KLMR Corner behind the Big Timbers Museum. I can’t say it enough, “Well done, Kathy! The new museum and the old Big Timbers Museum will soon be an awesome place to spend a hot afternoon along the Back Roads of Colorado.”