admin | June 29, 2009
Here’s a fascinating story that some of the UFO sites on the Internet have picked up in recent years. Cadotte Pass is the next pass up from Rogers on Highway 200, and was well-used in the pre-highway days. I’m heading up that way today with my bike. Think I’ll take a look around. I’ll let [...]
admin | June 28, 2009
When I first read A.B. Guthrie’s “The Big Sky” back in the 1970s, I figured it was a pretty good baseline for living in Montana. I’m having at it again this summer and wondering if it’s not something more than that. Take this passage, at a time in the novel when old-time mountain man Dick [...]
admin | June 23, 2009
If you’re into early western Montana history and have access to microfilm at the UM, Missoula or state historic libraries every once in awhile, check out the Dec. 15, 1912, edition of the Missoulian. One of the gems is a discussion by Judge Frank Woody of steamboats in Western Montana. Referring to an article he [...]
admin | June 22, 2009
From FWP: Visit Salmon Lake State Park on Saturday evening, June 27 and get a glimpse into the Nez Perce War of 1877 through the eyes of Major Charles Rawn. The program starts at 8 p.m. at Salmon Lake State Park’s campground amphitheater, approximately 5 miles south of Seeley Lake just off Highway 83. The [...]
admin | June 22, 2009
From FWP: Beavertail Hill State Park will host a special program on Friday, June 26 on Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and the controversies that have surrounded the book. The program is set to begin at 8 p.m. at the state park’s amphitheater. Guest speaker Michael Delaney, historian and independent scholar from Missoula, [...]
admin | June 16, 2009
If you missed it, read the post below about the worldwide celebration of “Bloomsday” each June 16. What’s the Montana connection? Stick with us here. Actress Millicent Bandmann-Palmer’s name pops up three times in “Ulysses,” which is set in its entirety on June 16, 1904, in Dublin. At one point, Leopold Bloom spots a theater [...]
admin | June 16, 2009
It’s June 16, time for the annual “hooey” (as they call it in Ireland) marking the day in 1904 around which James Joyce centered one of the greatest English novels — “Ulysess.” It’s more than 700 pages of the daylong wanderings and meditations in Dublin of Leopold Bloom and Stephen Dedalus. According to an Associated [...]
admin | June 11, 2009
According to Keren Wales’ blog, she returned yesterday to the prison camp her father was held in during World War II, this time with a new friend — 68-year-old Helga Radau — who has an amazing exhibit at the camp. Keren is bicycling and traveling by train through Europe, retracing the steps her father Ken [...]
admin | June 11, 2009
It was about this time in 1958 that professional baseball visited Stevensville. The Missoula Timberjacks, in their third season of Class C Pioneer League play, played a 5 p.m. exhibition against the Cuban Giants, a traveling team from Havana (I’m guessing it was the last summer such a thing occurred, as Fidel Castro’s Cuban Revolution [...]
admin | June 10, 2009
Keren, whose late father was shot down over Holland in WWII (“Recycling History …”), yesterday visited the German prison camp where Ken Wales was held from late 1943 until the Russians liberated him in the spring of 1945. She rode her bicycle to the town of Barth in northern Germany, getting lost along the way [...]
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