Pontiac LIVES - Proud GTO owner is one reason GM’s first muscle car will never die
FLORENCE - Like a lot of folks, Harry Gedney would give almost anything to still have his first car. More brains, Mr. Darcy? Austen’s 'Pride and Prejudice’ gets zombie touchup
WASHINGTON - As you may have heard, Pemberley has been overrun by zombies. Trading fedoras for spurs - Two detective novelists return to the Western
Robert B. Parker and Loren D. Estleman, two novelists who made their bones writing detective novels, sometimes write Westerns, but they usually approach their contributions to the genre in very different ways. Gem for dragon fanatics
In Volstov, a 100-year war with an enemy across the mountains has been all but won, thanks to its Dragon Corps. SHELF LIFE - Missoula’s own top librarian
We love the opportunity to toot our own horn - and this time we can play an entire symphony. Missoula Public Library’s very own reference librarian Vaun Stevens was awarded the Montana Library Association’s Sheila Cates Award for Librarian of the Year. Book dates
Tuesday, May 5
Ty Clement reads and signs “Being Ourself,” 7 p.m., Fact & Fiction Downtown, 220 N. Higgins, Missoula. Montana history almanac - Stuarts set up 1st gold sluices
May 8, 1862
It’s a busy, historic Thursday on Gold Creek in the Deer Lodge Valley. James and Granville Stuart, along with Jim Minesinger and Thomas Adams begin to wash gravel from newly constructed sluices in a ravine. It’s the first string of regular sluices in what will become Montana. The Way we were: 1925
Standing for a photograph in the summer of 1925 at Iona Vista, the family’s Flathead Lake retreat, the Wickes children are, from left, Helen, Caroline, William, Elizabeth and Margaret. Margaret was home, after 2 1/2 years as a missionary in the Philippines, to prepare for her wedding to the Rev. Kenneth MacDonald, another missionary in the Philippines. Field of dream built on Superfund site
LEADVILLE, Colo. - The mass of mud, which residents here call their “field of dreams,” sits atop a Superfund site where a zinc smelter once reigned. Time to start tending Barbara’s garden
This time of year is absolutely my favorite season and nothing is more gorgeous than springtime in Montana. Missoula, known as the Garden City, couldn’t be more beautiful as the tulips pop open, the daffodils stand up tall and the trees start turning green. It makes me want to run to the nearest nursery and start buying all the pretty plants and flowers to fill the pots and flower beds without waiting any longer. Fixing up the landline
Our home’s telephone system went on strike a few days ago. All the phones refused to carry communication. Sometimes they squawked and squealed with static. Other times, they just gave the silent treatment. Hummingbirds abuzz despite spring snow
HYAK, Wash. - Hummingbirds swirl in buzzing clouds, zipping around more than 10 feeders to sip sweet nectar. Western history magazine wins top honor - UM history professor penned article that brought in award
HELENA - “Montana The Magazine of Western History” was awarded a top literary honor at an April 18 ceremony at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City. Study: Grazing threatens habitat
RENO, Nev. (AP) - Conservationists say in a new report that livestock grazing poses a threat to a wide variety of fish and wildlife across more than three-fourths of their dwindling habitat on federal land in the West. ’30s explorer’s remains found in rock crevice
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - A skeleton found in Utah’s redrock country was that of a talented artist, poet and wanderer of the 1930s whose disappearance became the stuff of Western lore and Navajo legend, scientists confirmed Thursday. 'Real Hands Rodeo’ - Deer Lodge photographer captured cowboys’, cowgirls’ grit in the arena
Otho Hartley was a big man, and he carried a big camera. Rare justice - Narrative traces Standing Bear’s journey into national debate
“It would seem to me an odd feature of our judicial system that the only people in this country who have no rights under the law are the original owners of the soil: an Irishman, German, Chinaman, Turk or Tartar will be protected in life and property, but the Indian commands respect for his rights only so long as he inspires terror from his rifle.” Reading 'Good Book’ cover to cover - Entertaining, respectful look by author who spent year reading the entire Bible
David Plotz figured he knew the Bible. After all, he knew all the main stories - Adam and Eve, the Ten Commandments, David and Goliath, the parting of the Red Sea. Rejection, acceptance - Novel explores drama, anxiety of college applications process from desk in admissions office
Over the past few months, high school seniors have been finding out whether they’ve been accepted or rejected by the colleges to which they’d applied. There’s plenty of drama in their lives. SHELF LIFE - Celebre en la biblioteca
Celebrate children and books with Missoula Public Library. We’re taking part in El día de los ninos/El día de los libros (Children’s Day/Book Day) by hosting bilingual story times on April 27, May 1 and May 2. Enjoy stories in Spanish and English, plus browse our special book display in the children’s room through April and May. Story times take place Mondays at 7 p.m., Fridays at 10:30 a.m., and Saturdays at 11 a.m. Book dates
Tuesday, April 28
Reception and signing by Devin Fergis, author of “Liberalism, Black Power and the Making of American Politics, 1965-1980,” 5 -7 p.m., Fact & Fiction Downtown, 220 N. Higgins, Missoula. Montana history almanac - Report details strike of first virgin copper
May 1, 1900
An unidentified Finlander strikes a “huge, misshapen boulder” with his pick on Sixteen Mile Creek south of White Sulphur Springs - and the pick sticks. The Way we were: 1930s
In the 1930s, the six Brander sisters from Avon line up for a portrait for rodeo photographer Otho Hartley. The two oldest sisters, Violet and Margaret, competed alongside men in bucking bronco and steer riding events around Montana. The Montana Standard in Butte once boasted about the Branders, “Montana has the only two girls who are expert in the dangerous pastime of bulldogging wild steers.” Giving gift of mobility - Bozeman group makes wheelchairs for disabled Iraqi kids
BOZEMAN - Disabled kids in nonindustrialized nations are often left immobilized and unable to get around without the help of caregivers. But a Bozeman nonprofit that manufactures wheelchairs is working to change that. Ballad of the rhyming identity thief
PORTLAND, Ore. - An identity thief who likes to rhyme will go to prison for his crime. Four Corners mark off, but still legitimate
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - Many a family touring the Southwest has made a stop in Utah, Arizona, New Mexico and Colorado - all at the same time. Rewarding seniors who run the river
The annual Riverbank Run has always been a special anniversary for the King kids. The late Colie King, their Dad, was one of the original runners. Destructive class teaches kids skills
FORT COLLINS, Colo. - Sometimes to build knowledge you have to tear some things down. And that's just what the students in the National Center for Craftsmanship's DeConstruct Training Program did. Natural motion - UM dance classes for children nurture movement, cultivate creative voice
Anybody who watches small children play knows that creative movement just comes naturally. Killer at Cannes - Master of the thriller sets latest among festival’s 'superclass’
He’s a serial killer running loose at the Cannes film festival, but he’s convinced himself that he has a good motive: love. |
