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Article: Montana Museum's Future in Jeopardy
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- May 30, 2003
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Dateline: BILLINGS, Mont.
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In a stately, 26-room country home in central Montana, a trove of
antiques from 19th century Europe, priceless Western artwork and American
Indian artifacts are at the center of a battle of wills.
On one side is the legacy of two wealthy heiresses who hoped to share
their collection with their rural, less-traveled neighbors. Their
efforts culminated in the 1996 opening of the Charles M. Bair Family
Museum outside Martinsdale, a dot on the map in the middle of nowhere
where Alberta Bair lived many of her 97 years before her death in
1993.
On the other: trustees who have since closed the museum, at least
for this tourist ...
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