2015 Museum Day

Tractors! Cars! Quilts! Pies! Good food! Perfect weather! Lots of Fun! All these items went into a great Museum Day.

Museum Day 2015 was the ninth year for the event and this year over 500 people attended the event.

We had 15 tractors, 22 cars, 20 pies and 46 quilts exhibited. The silent auction had 122 items and bidders were busy making sure they had the highest bid!

“Best of the West” pie contest winners were Barbara Johnson in the single crust division with a pecan pie, Thelma Smith in the cobbler division with a deep dish plum cobbler and Sherry Harper in the cream pie division with a coconut cream pie and the double crust division with an apple pie.

Brenda Newton won the “Viewer’s Choice” award for her quilt.

People’s Choice Tractor was Joye Watson with 1950 Co-Op. Eight tractor games were won by Ted Ray Coleman of Hereford, Jed Morton of Dumas, Don Dowdy of Amarillo and Howard Landry of Amarillo.

Best History Car was won by Norris Stewart with the history of his 1937 Packard that was bought new by Boss Crump.

Division winners in the Car Show were Jackie Patterson of Amarillo with a 1910 Hupmobile, Tom Ferguson with a 1947 Hudson, Barcine Smith with a 1954 Ford Customline, Dudley and Marilyn Christian with a 1977 Corvette and John Hays with a 1970 El Camino.

Lawnmower slalom was won by Creed Johnson.

Winner of the 50” television was Starla Smith of Sunray. 

The five winners of paintings given by The Art Center were Alexa Maples, Shelly Burnett, Glynda Pflug, Howard Patton and Mike DeBons.

“Miss Piggy” spent the day entertaining. Kids learned about building bird feeders from Tom Cannon.

Janis Hunt won the Candy Guess game, missing by only eight.

Winners of the sidewalk chalk painting were was Arlene Ramos.

Entertainment during the afternoon was by “The Christians”, a father and daughter duo, Alfred and Marilyn.

Lunch was pulled pork sandwiches with trimmings and chocolate cake and ice cream were served during the afternoon.

Thanks to all the volunteers who helped make the day successful!