admin | October 29, 2009
It would be interesting to research how the matches made at a party on another Halloween Saturday 118 years ago turned out. Perhaps some Missoula historians can help. The “dummy supper” was one time-honored method of marking the eve of All Saint’s Day, and 10 young ladies and gentlemen practiced it Judge Thomas C. Marshall’s [...]
admin | October 23, 2009
Maybe it was frenzy-whipping propaganda, planted by Montana stockmen to gain the sympathies of the public, which they no doubt did. But the horror stories perpetrated by wolves got plenty of ink in the late 1800s. From the New York Times in October 1894: “BUTTE, Mon., Oct. 6 — Reports of ravages by great packs [...]
admin | October 8, 2009
One thing that led to the initial success of the Aber Day keggers in Missoula was their time in Montana history. The first kegger was in 1972, the last in 1979. In 1972, the legal drinking age in Montana was lowered from 21, where it had been since Prohibition ended, to 18. That meant all [...]
admin | October 8, 2009
The documentary on the kegger debuts tonight at the University Theater. That’s NOT the newer, smaller UC Theater on the third floor of the University Center, but the old one where, among other events, we children of the ’70s heard K. Ross Toole’s Montana history lectures. Bob McCue, executive producer, said the original thought was [...]
admin | October 8, 2009
Here’s a list of the bands that played the keggers, as provided by the producers of the documentary that debuts tonight at the University Theater: 1972 — (at Deer Creek east of Missoula) Weston Davis Revue, Bitterroot, Big Sky Country Band, Arrow, Tender Green, Oaken Line 1973 — (at Deer Creek) Jasper, Black Cat Bone, [...]
admin | October 7, 2009
Meriwether Lewis, by his hand or someone else’s, died 200 years ago next Sunday. The Lewis and Clark Trail Heritage Foundation, based in Great Falls, was in Tennessee today to memorialize the event. Here’s the AP account: HOHENWALD, Tenn. — Two hundred years after he died mysteriously, explorer Meriwether Lewis was honored Wednesday as a [...]
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