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Byron Days ‘Through the Decades’ next week
After a one-weekend break, the North Big Horn County summer festival season continues next week, July 12-13, with the annual Byron Days celebration. According to committee chairwoman Rebecca Bates, the 2024 celebration will carry the theme Through the Decades, a celebration of life in the community from days gone by to today.
Greybull’s Museum of Flight and Aerial Firefighting sheds light on planes’ past
Before its closure in the early 2000s, Hawkins and Power Inc. sent out planes filled with fire retardant and water to combat forest fires; however, the planes weren’t always used for fighting fires. Those planes, which can still be seen at the Museum of Flight and Aerial Firefighting in Greybull, have seen the hot flames and destruction of war, too: many of them are retired bombers and cargo planes from the Second World War.
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