Fort Bridger State Site long-time employee, Sanderson, feted at retirement dinner.
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FORT BRIDGER — Cecil Sanderson, curator for the Fort Bridger State Site, was feted at a retirement dinner last Saturday night at the American Legion Hall in Fort Bridger.
Sanderson, cultural resource specialist, has worked at the state site for 30 years, beginning as a summer seasonal employee. He initially answered an ad for a seasonal interpreter, which meant he “dressed up in period clothing and talked to the visitors.” The start in June 1988 was the stepping-stone tenure at the Fort Bridger State Historic Site.
In 1988, according to Sanderson, the staff at the State Site was in a transitional period. When Sanderson joined the staff, the site had a curator. One of the turnovers of staff moving in-and-out resulted in the curator leaving. At that point, Sanderson said, he applied for and was hired for the position in August.
In addition, to his tenure at the state site, Sanderson has also represented Wyoming on the board of the Colorado Wyoming Association of Museums (CWAM) and served as Wyoming’s representative on the Mountain Plains Museum Association (MPMA), which covers the states from Montana to Texas and the Dakotas.
