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Gayle's Wreath. Photo by Dawn Ballou, Pinedale Online.
Gayle's Wreath
Mark Johnson (L) and Richie Strom from Wind River Brewing Company, hold the Gayle McMurry Kinnison Memorial Wreath during the 17th Annual Museum of the Mountain Man Wreath & Chocolate Auction on Friday, Dec. 3rd. The wreath is brought back each year by the winner to be re-auctioned to benefit the Museum. Kinnison was a strong supporter of the Museum of the Mountain Man. Encana won the good-natured bidding war at $1550 to claim the wreath for another year.

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2010 Wreath Auction
Annual fundraiser for the Museum of the Mountain Man in Pinedale
by Dawn Ballou, Pinedale Online!
December 12, 2010

Fundraiser for the Museum of the Mountain Man in Pinedale
The 17th Annual Museum of the Mountain Man Wreath & Chocolate Auction was held on Friday, Dec. 3rd at Rendezvous Pointe in Pinedale. The event is the major fundraiser of the year for the Museum.

Each year, businesses, organizations and individuals in the community make beautiful holiday wreaths and greenery swags and generously donate them to the museum to be auctioned off at the Wreath Auction. This year there were 50 wreaths donated.

In addition to the wreath auction, there was a silent auction for chocolate delights. The Museum also had fur-trade related books for sale from their gift shop.

The refreshments for the wreath auction were sponsored by First Bank of Pinedale.

Wind River Brewing had a selection of their locally-brewed beer available for liquid refreshments.

Jay Fear, President of the Sublette County Historical Society, served as auctioneer for the live auction.

The Museum thanks the community for their beautiful wreath donations and everyone who attended to help support the Museum and their programs.



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  • Gayle's Wreath. Photo by Dawn Ballou, Pinedale Online.
    Gayle's Wreath
    Encana brought back the Gayle McMurry Kinnison wreath. They redecorated the wagon wheel with evergreen boughs, pine cones, red winter berries, gold and red ball ornaments, and a pretty red and gold bow. Whomever buys this wreath agrees to keep it during the year, then redecorate it and bring it back for the auction next year.

    Looking at the wreaths. Photo by Dawn Ballou, Pinedale Online.
    Looking at the wreaths
    Everyone had a chance to socialize and look at all the wreaths before the live auction started.

    Wreath auction. Photo by Dawn Ballou, Pinedale Online.
    Wreath auction
    (L to R): Sublette County Historical Society Board members Ron Wilson (spotting), Jay Fear (auctioneer), and J.D. "Sam" Drucker (holding Peggy Bryant's wreath).

    Sage & Snow Garden Club. Photo by Dawn Ballou, Pinedale Online.
    Sage & Snow Garden Club
    The Sage & Snow Garden Club created this living plant creation. Hen & chick succulents are given a holiday look with sagebrush sprigs, cinnamon sticks, red berries, and dried seed pods. This wreath won the most stars for people's choice.

    Big crowd. Photo by Dawn Ballou, Pinedale Online.
    Big crowd
    A big crowd showed up to enjoy the fun, see all the unique wreaths, and help support the Museum. This event is the major fundraiser of the year for the Museum of the Mountain Man in Pinedale. All of the wreaths in the auction are donated by community members for this cause.

    Bridger Mechanical wreath. Photo by Dawn Ballou, Pinedale Online.
    Bridger Mechanical wreath
    Note the antlers entwined in the wreath and the lantern hanging from the center.

    Reed's Ready Mix. Photo by Dawn Ballou, Pinedale Online.
    Reed's Ready Mix
    The background for this wreath was a hand-made tree skirt. The ornaments were made of beeswax (the wax was from Farson). The skirt and ornaments were made by Collette Ziegler.

    Detail of Reed's Ready Mix. Photo by Dawn Ballou, Pinedale Online.
    Detail of Reed's Ready Mix
    Close-up of wax ornaments.

    Sublette Communications wreath. Photo by Dawn Ballou, Pinedale Online.
    Sublette Communications wreath
    Sublette Communications made a lighted wreath out of antennas. This wreath was one of the fan favorites.

    Refreshments. Photo by Dawn Ballou, Pinedale Online.
    Refreshments
    First Bank of Pinedale sponsored the wreath auction and refreshments.

    Wind River Brewing. Photo by Dawn Ballou, Pinedale Online.
    Wind River Brewing
    Richie Strom (L) and Mark Johnson, from Wind River Brewing in Pinedale, sponsored the brew for the wreath auction.

    Shell elk antler wreath. Photo by Dawn Ballou, Pinedale Online.
    Shell elk antler wreath
    This beautiful, and heavy, wreath by Shell Exploration & Production, was made using elk antlers. This wreath was a fan favorite.

    Putting on a star. Photo by Dawn Ballou, Pinedale Online.
    Putting on a star
    Anyone who got a bidding number was given a star sticker to place on their favorite wreath. The wreaths with the most stars were the "fan favorites". Most of the favorites were bought for high dollar by generous bidders, then given back to be resold once or even twice more to raise maximum money for the Museum and still allow people to obtain a wreath at a good price.

    Richie Strom Christmas tree. Photo by Dawn Ballou, Pinedale Online.
    Richie Strom Christmas tree
    Richie Strom donated a live Douglas Fir Christmas tree from Oregon to the auction. It smelled wonderful!

    Green River Valley Museum wreath. Photo by Dawn Ballou, Pinedale Online.
    Green River Valley Museum wreath
    This wreath combines a cowboy hat and cowboy rope with sagebrush boughs and red berries.

    Chocolate Auction. Photo by Dawn Ballou, Pinedale Online.
    Chocolate Auction
    The chocolate goodies were part of the Silent Auction.

    Ann and Jay Fear wreath. Photo by Dawn Ballou, Pinedale Online.
    Ann and Jay Fear wreath
    Ann Fear Appraisals and Jay Fear Real Estate donated this unique arrangement. It has a wooden fence/barb wire backdrop, evergreens, sagebrush, red and silver berries, and a grouse, and license-plate bird house. The focal point was an 1847 John Deere tractor seat.

    Ann and Jay's wreath. Photo by Dawn Ballou, Pinedale Online.
    Ann and Jay's wreath
    Some of the creations were quite elaborate and took two people to hold them. Here, Sublette County Historical Society Board members Sam Drucker (L) and Clint Gilchrist (R) hold the wreath which was made and donated by Jay Fear (far R) and his wife, Ann.

    Annette Pape. Photo by Dawn Ballou, Pinedale Online.
    Annette Pape
    Annette Pape manned the table selling books and gifts from the Museum Trading Post (gift shop). All proceeds from the auction go towards the Museum's 2011 programs.

    SubletteOpoly SAFV. Photo by Dawn Ballou, Pinedale Online.
    SubletteOpoly SAFV
    Sublette County Historical Society Board member Clint Gilchrist holds up the SAFV wreath during the auction, which came with a copy of their new board game, "SubletteOpoly".

    LaMere Concrete display. Photo by Dawn Ballou, Pinedale Online.
    LaMere Concrete display
    LaMere Concrete donated a lovely display which used Fremont Lake driftwood, an antler shed, dried fall color flowers and leaves, and pheasant feathers. A fan favorite, this display was made by Laurie LaMere.

    Nikki and Jeff's wreath. Photo by Dawn Ballou, Pinedale Online.
    Nikki and Jeff's wreath
    This wreath by Nikki Mann and Jeff Wohl with NOLS Three Peaks Ranch had hanging cookies that were edible, and came with a bucket of even more holiday cookies to enjoy.

    Edible cookies. Photo by Pinedale Online.
    Edible cookies
    NOLS wreath detail. Enjoy the wreath and eat the cookies!

    Wind River Pizza wreath. Photo by Dawn Ballou, Pinedale Online.
    Wind River Pizza wreath
    Wind River Pizza wove evergreen boughs, red berries and gold ribbon into entwined branches, and added an old fashioned Santa decoration.

    Pinedale Chiropractic. Photo by Dawn Ballou, Pinedale Online.
    Pinedale Chiropractic
    This wreath combined horseshoes, spurs, and horses made out of bells.

    Horseshoe wreath detail. Photo by Dawn Ballou, Pinedale Online.
    Horseshoe wreath detail
    Detail of Pinedale Chiropractic's horseshoe wreath with bell horse ornaments.

    Ultra Resources wreath. Photo by Dawn Ballou, Pinedale Online.
    Ultra Resources wreath
    The base for Ultra Resources's wreath was a wonderful old weathered wagon wheel. They richly decorated it evergreen boughs, different kinds of pine cones, red berries, and glittery red ball ornaments. Placed around the wreath were elk, moose and deer ornaments.

    Pinedale Preschool wreath. Photo by Dawn Ballou, Pinedale Online.
    Pinedale Preschool wreath
    Pinedale Preschool created a lighted evergreen bough wreath. They frosted some of the greenery with snow-like highlights, added in glittery silver bows and cute little penguin and snowflake ornaments.

    Sandy Anderson wreath. Photo by Dawn Ballou, Pinedale Online.
    Sandy Anderson wreath
    Sandy Anderson used a cowboy lariat as the base for her unique wreath. She then wrapped part of it with barbed wire and extended the wire into the middle of the wreath and bent it into the shape of a cross. She added silk sunflowers and raffia.

    Julie Early's Saddle wreath. Photo by Dawn Ballou, Pinedale Online.
    Julie Early's Saddle wreath
    Julie Early always amazes us with her creative wreaths. This year, she used an old saddle which is believed to have come from the David Ranch in the Upper Green. She added juniper greenery, pine cones, glittery red ornaments, and red holly berries, and topped it with a glittery red and poinsettia flower. This beautiful creation was donated back to be auctioned off a second time to help the Museum.

    Saddle detail. Photo by Dawn Ballou, Pinedale Online.
    Saddle detail
    Detail of Julie Early's saddle "wreath". This creation was one of the fan favorites.

    Rosemary's chocolates. Photo by Dawn Ballou, Pinedale Online.
    Rosemary's chocolates
    Rosemary Brewer made delicious chocolate treats for the chocolate auction.

    Sam's candlesticks. Photo by Dawn Ballou, Pinedale Online.
    Sam's candlesticks
    Fishing enthusiast, Sam Drucker, decordated this set of candles with holiday greenery, adding a variety of fishing flies for decorations. Sam is on the Board of Directors of the Sublette County Historical Society, the parent organization of the Museum of the Mountain Man.

    The Barn Door wreath. Photo by Dawn Ballou, Pinedale Online.
    The Barn Door wreath
    The Barn Door wove evergreen boughs with oak and maple leaves, acorns, pine cones and berry boughs into their wreath, then decorated it with wine bottle corks. The finishing touches were to add two wine goblets and a bottle of wine!

    Encana-Jennifer Gibson wreath. Photo by Dawn Ballou, Pinedale Online.
    Encana-Jennifer Gibson wreath
    Jennifer Gibson made this wreath on behalf of Encana Oil & Gas. She used evergreen boughs, pinecones and red holly berries for the base, then decorated it with blue and black ball ornaments, bells and ribbons, adding in a couple of peacock feather accents.

    High Mountain wreath. Photo by Dawn Ballou, Pinedale Online.
    High Mountain wreath
    Ron Wilson, from High Mountain Real Estate, made this unique cowboy boot wreath. It has (at least) 14 boots of various colors and designs, and is topped with a sagebrush swig bow tied with a red scarf with silver slide. This wreath was one of the fan favorites.

    Cowboy Boot wreath. Photo by Dawn Ballou, Pinedale Online.
    Cowboy Boot wreath
    Ron Wilson (L) from High Mountain Real Estate, helps hold the cowboy boot wreath he made. Clint Gilchrist (R) holds the other side. Jay Fear, (far R), conducts the auction for this wreath.

    James Duran bids. Photo by Dawn Ballou, Pinedale Online.
    James Duran bids
    James Duran, from Shell, laughs as he particpates in the bidding exchange for the cowboy boot wreath.

    Encana-Jennifer wreath. Photo by Dawn Ballou, Pinedale Online.
    Encana-Jennifer wreath
    Jennifer Gibson made this wreath on behalf of Encana. She used evergreen boughs and decorated it with silver and black ribbons, adding gold and black ornaments.

    Encana's Chocolate Cake. Photo by Dawn Ballou, Pinedale Online.
    Encana's Chocolate Cake
    Encana donated a whole chocolate cake to the chocolate auction. This was a silent auction, with people writing down their bids to try to get the treat they wanted.

    Clean Wash Laundry wreath. Photo by Dawn Ballou, Pinedale Online.
    Clean Wash Laundry wreath
    Clean Wash Laundry made an evergreen bough wreath and decorated it with little silver and blue glittery packages, adding a pretty blue bow and sprig of branches with shiny silve leaves.

    Tegeler & Associates wreath. Photo by Dawn Ballou, Pinedale Online.
    Tegeler & Associates wreath
    Tegeler & Associates created a unique wreath using a variety of green and copper-colored holiday ornament balls, entwined with a copper-colored see-through fabric ribbon.

    Sam Drucker wreath. Photo by Dawn Ballou, Pinedale Online.
    Sam Drucker wreath
    Sam Drucker also made a wreath for the auction. He used pine boughs with holly berries and pine cones, and added in fishing flies and peacock and pheasant feathers for added decorations for the fishing enthusiast.

    McKenzie Meningitis fence. Photo by Dawn Ballou, Pinedale Online.
    McKenzie Meningitis fence
    McKenzie Meningitis organization used a section of wooden picket fence as the base for their creation. Across the top, they added fir evergreen boughs mixed with sprigs and red berries. They added cute moose ornaments for the final touch.

    McKenzie Meningitis wreath. Photo by Dawn Ballou, Pinedale Online.
    McKenzie Meningitis wreath
    Museum of the Mountain Man Director, Laurie Hartwig, helps hold the wreath she donated on behalf of the McKenzie Meningitis Foundation. Sublette County Historical Society Board member Clint Gilchrist holds the other end. SCHS Board President Jay Fear (L) conducts the auction.

    Big J's wreath. Photo by Dawn Ballou, Pinedale Online.
    Big J's wreath
    Big J's used a grapevine wreath and added evergreen boughs, pinecones, winter berry, maple leaves and floral sprigs for a lovely holiday wreath.

    Big J's wreath detail. Photo by Dawn Ballou, Pinedale Online.
    Big J's wreath detail

    Ridley's wreath. Photo by Dawn Ballou, Pinedale Online.
    Ridley's wreath
    Ridley's contributed a pretty wreath with pine and fir evergreen boughs decorated with pinecones, glittery apples, pears, flowers and red winter berries, with an entwined red ribbon.

    Shell wreath. Photo by Dawn Ballou, Pinedale Online.
    Shell wreath
    This large wreath, donated by Shell Exploration & Production, uses a grapevine base wrapped with silver-blue ribbon and glittery silver fronds, adorned with fir and pine boughs, silver flowers, and a silver angel. Three silver and gold Christmas ornament balls dangle on silver ribbons from the center.

    Shell wreath. Photo by Dawn Ballou, Pinedale Online.
    Shell wreath
    Sam Drucker (L) holds the Shell wreath while Jay Fear conducts the auction.

    Lakeside Lodge wreath. Photo by Dawn Ballou, Pinedale Online.
    Lakeside Lodge wreath
    This wreath is made of evergreen boughs decorated with pine cones and white, green and red berries and a pretty red snowflake bow. Little Santa ornaments, including one of Santa stuck with his legs sticking out of a chimney, complete the decorations.

    Sublette Center wreath. Photo by Dawn Ballou, Pinedale Online.
    Sublette Center wreath
    This is a evergreen wreath donated by the Sublette Center has pine cones, snow flakes, and a brown & green striped bow.

    Shell antler wreath. Photo by Dawn Ballou, Pinedale Online.
    Shell antler wreath
    Shell donated this lovely wreath that is decorated on a moose atler. The greenery has white, green and red berries, hydrangea type flowers, a red poinnsettia, evergreens and gold bells.

    Shell wreath detail. Photo by Dawn Ballou, Pinedale Online.
    Shell wreath detail

    Ridley's wreath. Photo by Dawn Ballou, Pinedale Online.
    Ridley's wreath
    Ridley's decorated this evergreen wreath with pine boughs, sprigs, green ball ornaments and white poinsettia flowers.

    Library wreath. Photo by Dawn Ballou, Pinedale Online.
    Library wreath
    The Pinedale branch of the Sublette County Library created this unique wreath with rolled up sheets of Christmas music, entwined with red holly berries. A holly bow adds the final touch.

    Library wreath detail. Photo by Dawn Ballou, Pinedale Online.
    Library wreath detail
    Detail of the Library wreath.

    Peggy Bryant's wreath. Photo by Dawn Ballou, Pinedale Online.
    Peggy Bryant's wreath
    Peggy Bryant took a grapevine wreath and intertwined strings of multi-colored beads, antler, leather, and a sun/moon pin. Peggy is on the Board of Directors of the Sublette County Historical Society.

    Detail of Peggy's wreath. Photo by Dawn Ballou, Pinedale Online.
    Detail of Peggy's wreath
    Detail of Peggy Bryant's bead and antler wreath.

    Children's Discovery Center. Photo by Dawn Ballou, Pinedale Online.
    Children's Discovery Center
    The wooden blocks in this wreath spell out "Childrens Discovery Center". A toy car, truck, plane, mouse, and rabbit are decorations.

    Digger Lewis-Encana wreath. Photo by Dawn Ballou, Pinedale Online.
    Digger Lewis-Encana wreath
    Digger Lewis made this wreath for Encana. It uses juniper and sagebrush boughs, pine cones and mistle toe with a pretty red bow.

    Wolfs Pinedale Dodge. Photo by Dawn Ballou, Pinedale Online.
    Wolfs Pinedale Dodge
    Wolf's Pinedale Dodge made a lighted wreath with evergreen boughs, pine cones, red berries, with cowboy and horse ornaments.

    Big Brothers Big Sisters. Photo by Dawn Ballou, Pinedale Online.
    Big Brothers Big Sisters
    Big Brothers Big Sisters created a wreath of white and red poinsettia flowers, decorated with a glittery red butterfly.

    Karen Olsen-Encana wreath. Photo by Dawn Ballou, Pinedale Online.
    Karen Olsen-Encana wreath
    Karen Olsen made this swag on behalf of Encana. It has a wire rope with metal stars. The swag has vines with red and white berries large bells. A red plaid bow completes the decoration.

    Wyoming Land Trust. Photo by Dawn Ballou, Pinedale Online.
    Wyoming Land Trust
    Wyoming Land Trust made a sagebrush wreath and wrapped it with a horseshoe lights and a bucking bronco ornament.

    Rio Verde Engineering wreath. Photo by Dawn Ballou, Pinedale Online.
    Rio Verde Engineering wreath
    Rio Verde Engineering made a twig wreath decorated with sagebrush sprigs and red berries. Two deer antler sheds are worked into the design.

    Tammy Bradley. Photo by Dawn Ballou, Pinedale Online.
    Tammy Bradley
    Tammy Bradley made an evergreen wreath around a moose antler. Decorations include pheasant and peacock and feathers, gold ball ornaments, white flowers, red berries, lotus pods, and gold sprigs.

    Rosemarie's wreath. Photo by Dawn Ballou, Pinedale Online.
    Rosemarie's wreath
    Rosemarie Brewer donated this lighted evergreen wreath. It has pine cones and gold flowers, leaves and bows.

    Annette & Millie's wreath. Photo by Dawn Ballou, Pinedale Online.
    Annette & Millie's wreath
    Annette & Millie Pape made this lighted evergreen wreath. It has pine cones, red berries and silver sprigs. A happy snow man decorates the center.

    SAFV wreath. Photo by Dawn Ballou, Pinedale Online.
    SAFV wreath
    The Sexual Assault and Family Violence Task Force donated this lighted evergren wreath. It has red berries, gold ornaments and a red bow. A white dove and the words "PEACE" are added decorations.

    Dennis Trucking wreath. Photo by Dawn Ballou, Pinedale Online.
    Dennis Trucking wreath
    This evergreen wreath has holly sprigs and red berries, and pheasant feathers. An old fashioned Santa is the centerpiece.

    Childrens Learning Center. Photo by Dawn Ballou, Pinedale Online.
    Childrens Learning Center
    The Children's Learning Center donated this holiday centerpiece. It has evergreens and pine cones, with a red plaid ribbon. A holiday moose adorns the center.

    Moose Country Quilting. Photo by Dawn Ballou, Pinedale Online.
    Moose Country Quilting
    Moose Country Quilting made an avian basket wreath. Evergreen boughs, red poinsettias and a gold ribbon adorn the center. 38 little birds perch on the crossbars on the basket.

    Bird closeup. Photo by Dawn Ballou, Pinedale Online.
    Bird closeup

    Shrimp. Photo by Dawn Ballou, Pinedale Online.
    Shrimp
    First Bank of Pinedale was the wreath auction sponsor, providing a wonderful selection of refreshments.

    Fan Favorite. Photo by Dawn Ballou, Pinedale Online.
    Fan Favorite
    The tags with the most stars became the "fan favorites". People received a star when they got a bidding number, then put the star on their favorite choice after going around the room and looking at all the wreaths.

    Hang on. Sam. Photo by Dawn Ballou, Pinedale Online.
    Hang on. Sam
    Sam's arms got a work out holding up the wreaths during the auction. Here he holds the elk antler wreath made by Bridger Mechanical, while Jay Fear takes the bids behind him. Note the lantern in the center of this wreath. The card says, "Light in the Window on Christmas - Taken from the Irish and continued in the Old West, placing a light in the window on Christmas Eve is a tradition meant to welcome the Holy Family and any strangers passing by."

    Millie Pape. Photo by Dawn Ballou, Pinedale Online.
    Millie Pape
    Museum of the Mountain Man Business Manager, Millie Pape, kept track of the bids during the auction.

    Keeping track. Photo by Dawn Ballou, Pinedale Online.
    Keeping track
    (L to R) Emma Lee Hecox, Angie Thomas, Janet Montgomery help keep track of the wreaths during the auction. Hecox and Thomas work at the Museum of the Mountain Man. Montgomery is on the Sublette County Historical Society Board of Directors.

    Sublette Communications wreath. Photo by Dawn Ballou, Pinedale Online.
    Sublette Communications wreath
    There were many very unique and creative wreaths in this year's auction. Sublette Communications deals with radio and other communications, so the antenna wreath was perfect as their creation! Clint Gilchrist holds the wreath while Jay Fear takes the bids.

    Museum books. Photo by Dawn Ballou, Pinedale Online.
    Museum books
    The Museum of the Mountain Man has an impressive collection of books they have published. Some of the books were available for sale at the wreath auction. During the winter, while the Museum is closed, these books are available for purchase online from their website. These make great Christmas gifts for anyone who enjoys local area history.
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