Singing, Dancing...and Boone and Crockett Heads

All over America communities are hosting holiday celebrations, and Cody was no exception!  The big event this Saturday was the Buffalo Bill Historical Center (BBHC) Holiday Open House.  For those of you that are not familiar with the BBHC, the Historical Center houses 5 museums under one roof: The Whitney Gallery of Western Art, the Buffalo Bill Museum, the Cody Firearms Museum, the Plains Indian Museum and the Draper Museum of Natural History.  This museum is packed with tourists most of the year, but each December they open it free to the public for the Holiday Open House. 

As if free isn't enough, anyone in Cody with any pretense of talent at all can perform.  I saw cloggers, singers, choirs, family singers, high school bands, barber shop quartets, ballet dancers...and a reading of "The Christmas Story by Buffalo Bill".  There were also free cookies and lemonade!

The genius of this is that while I watched the dancers and singers, my husband...instead of tugging at my arm every 30 seconds saying 'Let's go' (he can take only so much ballet), was happily occupied looking at guns in the firearms museum, and checking out the Boone and Crockett Heads that are mounted in the little log cabin re-creation.  So there really was something for everyone...even for the little ones, because Santa was sitting in one of those little log cabins!  DLB