Serving O'Brien & Clay Counties
Serving O'Brien & Clay Counties
Scrapbook collection highlights Everly girls' hoopsters
Bev Rinehart shows off the Everly Heritage Museum's collection of news clippings featuring articles and photos of the Everly Cattlefeeders girls' basetball teams from the 1960s and 1970s.
The yellowed clippings in scrapbooks at the Everly Heritage Museum may be frail, but they carry the weight of a significant period in the town's history.
More than a dozen books filled with news clippings donated by former basketball players, their families and fans help tell the story of the community's stellar girls' basketball teams in the 1960s and 1970s. Museum volunteer Bev Rinehart spent more than a month this summer cataloguing the articles into an Excel spreadsheet to better organize the Cattlefeeders' story, which is rich with thrilling victories and heartbreaking defeats.
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