L&H – Past, Present, and Future

 Press Release – The Campbell County Rockpile Museum and the Campbell County Public Library invite the public to a program by Mike Wandler to discuss the origins, growth, and development of L&H Industrial. The program will be held on July 12^th at 7:00 p.m. in the Wyoming Room at the Campbell County Public Library. Mike is president and shareholder of the company which designs, repairs, and manufactures components and equipment in the mining, oil and gas, railroad and other industries with heavy industrial equipment. L&H Industrial opened in 1964 as a six-man welding shop in Gillette, Wyoming and has grown to a global manufacturer of heavy industrial equipment with over 500 employees worldwide. Mike will discuss L&H’s current work and some of the special projects the company has undertaken, such as the NASA transporter.

This program is held in conjunction with the traveling Smithsonian exhibit, The Way We Worked, which is currently open at the Rockpile Museum.

The Way We Worked has been made possible in Campbell County by Wyoming Humanities. This exhibition was created by the National Archives and is part of Museum on Main Street, a collaboration between the Smithsonian Institution and state humanities councils nationwide. Support for Museum on Main Street has been provided by the United States Congress.

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For more information :

C. C. Rockpile Museum contact: Angela Beenken, 307-682-5723, abeenken@ccgov.net

Wyoming Humanities contact: Sheila Bricher-Wade, 307-721-9243, sheila@thinkwy.org

Smithsonian contact: Jennifer Schommer, 202-633-3121, schommerj@si.edu