Labor history exhibit opens in Priest River

A traveling Smithsonian exhibit about the evolution of the workplace in America will open this Saturday at the Beardmore Block in Priest River, said Emily Nauseda with Frause Full Spectrum Communications, working with the Beardmore's architect.

The exhibit, "The Way We Worked," explores workforce environments over the past 150 years. It touches on logging and mining history in the Inland Northwest.

The exhibit is being hosted by the Rex Theater Foundation, the Priest River Museum, the Timber Education Center and the Idaho Humanities Council.

The exhibit runs through Oct. 21 in Priest River. It will later come to the Coeur d'Alene Public Library.