admin | July 28, 2010
Monday’s tornado in northeastern Montana was the strongest of a series of twisters that have done damage in the state this summer. The best known was the one in Billings on Father’s Day that ravaged the state’s premier indoor arena, the Metra, but this one was deadlier, killing a child and a 46-year-old man on [...]
admin | April 15, 2010
A post of a couple of days ago got into the early history of the Marshall Ski Area east of Missoula, courtesy of a writeup by Anna Sain in 1988-89. Here are more nuggets from Sain’s report: The original log lodge at Marshall, built in the 1940s, became a part of Si and Velma Green’s [...]
admin | April 12, 2010
I grew up in the shadow of Marshall Mountain east of Missoula but as anyone who has seen me ski can tell you, it didn’t do much good. Back then I wouldn’t have had to put “east of Missoula” in that first sentence, because everyone knew where Marshall Ski Area was. It’s been closed to [...]
admin | April 5, 2010
Kris Crawford of Target Range sends along a photo of the old Kelley family house (as in Kelley Island) which she says was known as the “Pepperpot.” It was a speakeasy during prohibition. I’m trying to download the photo here, but I’m being told the file is too big, so I’ll have to get help. [...]
admin | March 17, 2010
It’ll be several weeks before demolition of the old Florence Laundry building on East Front and Pattee is Missoula is complete. Jim Howard of Frenchtown sends these thoughts: “I have many good memories of the old Florence Laundry as my granddad and, later, dad ran the business. “One very important historical point, though, that wasn’t [...]
admin | February 10, 2010
Time for some detective work. Diane Sands at the Historical Museum at Fort Missoula got the following e-mail the other day. So far, none of the resources Diane or I turn to have shed light on Willy deMero, a singer/songwriter who supposedly was born in 1903 in Alberton and died in 1998 in a “small [...]
admin | November 24, 2009
Warren Davis, editor and publisher of the Daily Missoulian, weighed in on a difficult subject this week in 1932: Thanksgiving. “There have been last Thursdays in Novembe of other years that maybe better exemplified the nationwide thought of Thanksgiving than does this day of 1932,” he wrote on the editorial page on Nov. 24. They [...]
admin | November 17, 2009
They buried Earl Cooley yesterday afternoon in his Bitterroot hometown of Corvallis, and the barrage of tributes to Cooley’s work as one of the first smoke jumpers keeps coming. It’s interesting just to Google Cooley’s name and see them all. Cooley graduated from high school in Corvallis in 1930, but he didn’t enroll in Forestry [...]
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