STRATTON – Anna Smart, a former telephone operator, will demonstrate the 1950s telephone system she used when she lived in Stratton at 2 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 5, at the Dead River Area Historical Society museum.

She will explain how the system worked and will answer questions. The telephone office was located in what is now the T & L Enterprises parking lot. The Quint family of North Anson donated the equipment to the museum.

The museum is open from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. weekend during July and August. Displays include artifacts, manuscripts and photographs that have been donated or loaned by townspeople and descendants of original families of the Dead River Region.

Collections from 1850 on include carpentry and logging tools, china, glass, a church organ, furniture from native families, a schoolroom, a memorial room to the “lost” towns of Flagstaff and Dead River, the lineage of several native families and a host of memorabilia from native homesteads.