Thank You!

The Booth Museum would like to thank everyone who came out for the 5th Annual Cowboy Gathering! The weekend was a great success and could not have been possible without the help of our staff, volunteers, sponsors, participants and our visitors!

For more information about the Booth Museum and the Cowboy Gathering Weekend, please visit http://www.boothmuseum.org/

The Booth Western Art Museum is pleased to announce the winners of the 2008 Youth Cowboy Poetry Contest. The contest was open for students in three age groups: grades five and six, grades seven and eight and grades nine through twelve. Students selected from topics relative to the theme The Spirit of the American West and submitted their entries to a panel of judges. The top fifteen finalists in each age group competed at the Booth Western Art Museum on Saturday, March 8 as part of the Cowboy Gathering.

The finalists will return to the Booth to compete for cash prizes in the final competition on Saturday, April 19, 2008 in honor of National Cowboy Poetry Week.



Finalists in the 2008 Cowboy Poetry Competition include:

Grades 5 and 6
· Joseph Nease from Cartersville, Ga., Bartow County 4-H
· Victoria Staley from Cartersville, Ga., Cartersville Middle School
· Lauren Nicole Seymour from Cartersville, Ga., Cartersville Middle School

Grades 7 and 8
· Ben Vagase from Cartersville, Ga., Cartersville Middle School
· Maria Cabanas from Cartersville, Ga., Cartersville Middle School
· Mallory Fleming from Cartersville, Ga., South Central Middle School

Grades 9 through 12
· Rachel Potter from Rydal, Ga., Adairsville High School
· Omicha Stapleton from Peachtree City, Ga., McIntosh High SchoolKayla Frazier from White, Ga., Adairsville High School