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Lanny Wilke, business professor at Montana State University-Northern, reshingles the roof of the old Faber School at the Great Northern Fairgrounds Saturday, while 7-year-old Camille Keeley helps out on the ground.
The 109-year-old Faber School at the Hill County Fairgrounds is a treasure trove of area history.
It is full of turn-of-the century books, old-fashioned school desks and maps and a furnace that kept students in the 1920s warm from the Bear Paw Mountain winters.
The one-room school was disassembled, moved to the fairgrounds and reassembled many years ago, and has been an attraction for history buffs. But it has been closed for some time because the roof is in disrepair.
The H. Earl Clark Memorial Museum Board got a grant from the Montana History Foundation to fix the roof, and Saturday, volunteer workers were on hand to make the repairs.
Elaine Morse, chair of the museum foundation board marveled at the community support the group has received. Eli Salapich, a foreman for Lotton Construction Co. and a member of the museum board, Brad Lotton and Lanny Wilke, a Montana State University-Northern business professor and member of the museum foundation board, were on the roof tearing off the old material and putting the new roof on.
Lotton donated company equipment to help in the effort, Morse said.
Camille Keeley, 7, carried away the old material from the roof.
Judi Dritshulas, chair of the museum board, said she hopes the repairs will be finished in time for the school to open for this year's fair.
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