Shop of wonders

Leslie Kehoe, owner of Kehoe’s Agate Shop, is pictured in front of her store on Holt Drive in Bigfork. (Mackenzie Reiss/Daily Inter Lake)

Agates, fossils, crystals and more fill the third room of Kehoe’s Agate Shop on Feb. 14. (Mackenzie Reiss/Daily Inter Lake)

Crystals, rocks and minerals are on display at Kehoe’s Agate Shop in Bigfork. (Mackenzie Reiss/Daily Inter Lake)

Longtime customer Joan Hodgeboom, of Bigfork, brings her pup in to visit with Kehoe’s Agate Shop staff on Valentine’s Day. Hodgeboom keeps coming back to Kehoe’s because “everybody is knowledgeable — you can ask them any questions you want,” she said. (Mackenzie Reiss/Daily Inter Lake)

Kehoe’s Agate Shop offers a variety of agates, crystals, fossils and jewelry.

Montana sapphire jewelry is one area of specialty at Kehoe’s Agate Shop. Founder Jack Kehoe. “My dad started buying it 50, 60 years ago,” said his daughter and current owner, Leslie Kehoe. “It’s something that’s been continuously in the business all these years.” (Mackenzie Reiss/Daily Inter Lake)

Kehoe’s Agate Shop has been in business since 1932 and is known for offering quality stones and classic jewelry.

An expansive mineral collection decorates the walls of the first room at Kehoe’s Agate Shop. The collection was started by founder, Jack Kehoe. His daughter Leslie Kehoe continues adding “one nice mineral every year,” she said. (Mackenzie Reiss/Daily Inter Lake)

Kehoe’s Agate Shop carries rocks and gems of all sizes, some as large as this Amethyst geode. (Mackenzie Reiss/Daily Inter Lake)

This photo of Kehoe family includes James Kehoe Sr. and James "Jack" Kehoe Jr. (Courtesy of Leslie Kehoe and the Bigfork History Project)

Jack Kehoe and family in fishing boat on Bigfork Bay with the SS-Helena in the background circa the early 1920s.

James “Jack” Kehoe working at the diamond blade “jade” saw he designed and built. Kehoe was one of the first people in the U.S. to cut and work with the jade from Canada.