Havre Daily News/Zach White

Bonnie Williamson, bottom right, is moved by a poem written and recited for her at her Thursday afternoon retirement party at the Havre Hill County Library. Nearly 100 people filled the library for the event.

Thirty years worth of Hi-Line fans of literacy gathered in the Havre-Hill County Library to commemorate the departure of their queen, Bonnie Williamson.

Nearly 100 people filled the library's rows of chairs and tables, with more than a dozen standing, for Williamson's afternoon retirement party on Thursday.

Through the afternoon, recent associat...