admin | November 27, 2009
Annick Drosdal-Levillain got back to me early Thanksgiving Day, too late for her thank you to the people of Missoula to get in the paper yesterday. The story, headlined “Missoula Cemetery mystery unraveled,” was a follow-up on a Nov. 7 feature on her quest to chase down the ghost of her great-grandfather, Haakon Hauge, who [...]
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 19, 2009
Thought I’d trot this one out again. We ran it in the paper in the lead-up to the 2001 “Brawl of the Wild.” Not everyone in Montana gives a damn about the Grizzly-Bobcat football game. But folks from all walks of life do, and don’t our peculiar walks define us? I’ve long thought the home [...]
admin | November 17, 2009
Earl Cooley, who died Nov. 9 at his home in Missoula, was actually the second man to jump from a plane to fight a fire for the Forest Service. The late Rufus Robinson proceeded him by a minute or too, in the Marten Creek region of what’s now the Bitterroot-Selway wilderness in Idaho. Here’s a [...]
admin | November 17, 2009
If I understand correctly, Earl Cooley and the first smoke jumper class in the summer of 1940 did their ground training at the Seeley Lake Ranger Station, stayed at Camp Paxson on the south end of Seeley Lake, and did their training jumps over Blanchard Flats, near (or at?) Clearwater Junction. Here’s Cooley’s own account [...]
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 [...]
admin | November 10, 2009
Thanks to Carl Haywood for tracking this down. If you missed the initial showing of the PBS documentary on David Thompson last week, here’s the info for the next one. If anybody knows when else and where else it’s showing, let me know. WHAT: Uncharted Territory: “David Thompson on the Columbia Plateau” WHEN: Wed, Nov [...]
admin | November 9, 2009
OK, does this sound familiar? Yesterday was a day of misty weather, cloudy but fine in the Thompson Falls area. Today is a fine day again, but unmisty and not so cloudy. It’s what folks in T-Falls are experiencing this morning in 2009, and what David Thompson encountered exactly 200 years. It wasn’t easy at [...]
admin | November 9, 2009
Our state’s 120th birthday came and went yesterday (Sunday) without much fanfare. Nov. 8, 1889 Following a series of “whereas” clauses, a proclamation signed by President Benjamin Harrison at 10:40 a.m. in Washington, D.C., concluded: “I … declare and proclaim the fact that the conditions imposed by Congress on the State of Montana, to entitle [...]
admin | November 7, 2009
If you get the chance, drop into the Veterans Day weekend program Sunday at the Rocky Mountain Museum of Military History at Fort Missoula. The program at Building T-316 starts at 2 p.m. and there’s no charge. This year’s program is a tribute to American POWs, and few have stories to rival that of WWII [...]
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