Laramie’s Living History —
A Variety of Other Topics

A series of stories prepared for the Albany County Museum Coalition, an alliance of institutions that promote Laramie’s historic and cultural resources. This series originally appeared in the Laramie Boomerang.

Not all Albany County history falls into a specific category; a wide assortment of additional topics are covered on these pages.

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Piano music once filled the air of Laramie What to do with an old piano now?

Why pianos? There were a lot of reasons why a piano was and is a difficult status symbol.It is heavy, expensive, has a tendency to go out of tune in a way that only a skilled piano tuner can remedy, and requires experts to move, even to a different floor in the same house.

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