Lifetime Hobby Provides Glimpse Into History

February 25, 2015 at 5:00 a.m.

by Lynn Kutter ENTERPRISE-LEADER

LYNN KUTTER ENTERPRISE-LEADER Bill Bequette of Farmington rode horses but was not a cowboy. He describes himself as a “drugstore cowboy,” saying he tried to learn to rope but just was not able to do it. Still, he loves cowboy hats and has quite a collection of them in a museum he has created on his property.
LYNN KUTTER ENTERPRISE-LEADER Bill Bequette of Farmington rode horses but was not a cowboy. He describes himself as a “drugstore cowboy,” saying he tried to learn to rope but just was not able to do it. Still, he loves cowboy hats and has quite a collection of them in a museum he has created on his property.

FARMINGTON -- Bill Bequette of Farmington has spent his lifetime collecting and keeping old items from his family or picking them up elsewhere along the way. His self-described hobby has been going on for so long that he now has a museum of sorts in a large building behind his home on Rheas Mill Road in Farmington.

Sometime this spring, most items will be sold in an auction as Bequette and his wife, Aylene, downsize in preparing to move permanently to Butterfield Trail Village in Fayetteville sometime in the future. But for now, he enjoys talking about his museum and having others look at it.

He has no idea how many items are in the building. Walls are

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