Taking in the tunes - Missoula City Band concerts are a traditional summer evening out
America was still rebuilding Europe’s war-scorched cities when a young couple first sat on the grass to listen to the Missoula City Band. Dark lights in a Texas town - 'Rambo’ creator gets real thrills spinning yarn of mysterious incident
Football-sized lights hover over the dark horizon outside Marfa, Texas, bouncing, shimmering, even changing colors. Some can see them, others can’t. Theories abound as to what they are, but no one seems to know for sure. New take on 'Moveable Feast’ - Hemingway’s grandson, former Bozeman resident edits fresh version of memoir
BOZEMAN - Forty-five years after the original publication of “A Moveable Feast,” Ernest Hemingway’s grandson has edited a new version of the famous memoir of life in Paris for the struggling young writer and the “lost generation” of Daring spirit to aspire to - Reporter Nelly Bly’s story will inspire kids
If you’ve ever felt like doing something daring and adventurous that other people say you can’t do, the story of Nellie Bly will give you a sense of all that is possible. Shelf life - Get literate with Web 2.0
You’ve heard the hype about blogs, Twitter and RSS feeds. Even the library has MySpace and Facebook pages. But it’s hard to keep up with the new technology, especially when you haven’t had a chance to figure out what they do and how they do it. Well, here’s that chance. Book dates
Monday, July 13
Storytime, 10 a.m., Barnes & Noble, 2640 North Reserve St., Missoula. Youths spending summer working volunteer garden
GRANTS PASS, Ore. - Casey Carter and Ryan Beairsto are spending part of their summer vacation digging trenches. And they love it. The Way we were: 1973
In 1973, a women’s bowling team from Missoula’s Timberjanes League has a portrait taken in Las Vegas, where they traveled for a tournament. The women bowlers are, from left, Millie Vevick, Ellamae Mercer, June Lowe, Ernie Fassett and Babe Bogard. Good pair of pants is hard to find
“Did you get that in the thrift shop?” Art market makes difference at home
SANTA FE, N.M. - The dazzlingly colorful, intricately beaded necklaces that cover Rebecca Lolosoli’s chest and shoulders are a pipeline to change in a remote area of northern Kenya. Making gems out of chuck - Beef industry marketing different cuts to use more of animal
CENTENNIAL, Colo. - Meat scientist Bridget Wasser is on a search for what she calls “diamonds in the rough.” Flood gates open on bird sanctuary
SALT LAKE CITY - Flood gates opened Wednesday to begin soaking about 2,700 acres on the southern shore of the Great Salt Lake - the culmination of years of behind-the-scenes work to create a sanctuary for birds. Toasting a barley family - Coors ad features supplier farm that’s spanned generations
BERTHOUD, Colo. - Bill Markham picked the top off a stalk of barley and held it in his tanned, weathered hand. The green heads will turn golden by the end of July and become one of the four main ingredients in Coors beer. Timeless - Lake Mary Ronan hasn’t changed much over the years, to the delight of residents and visitors who keep coming back
LAKE MARY RONAN - His fishing partner told Bruce Nearing he’d heard about this out-of-the-way lake in western Montana and was going to drive over from Spokane, drop a line and give Lake Mary Ronan a try. Two perspectives on sanctuary walls - Patient, inmate look back at facility for Hansen’s disease
NEW ORLEANS - Driving the River Road to the National Hansen’s Disease Museum in Carville, it is easy to get lost in time. That green levee, those majestic oaks are the stuff of a vintage, timeless Louisiana landscape. Closer to present memory, though, is the Louisiana National Guard installation, with its post-Katrina and Rita trailers, its young soldiers training in the summer sun, its signs for the Job Corps and the Youth Corps. Publishing deal with the Devil
Wanted: talented, desperate writer to pen a book for the Devil. Youthful tips on how to go green
You want to help the Earth, but how? You remember to turn off the lights (most of the time!), but what else can ordinary people do that will make a difference? SHELF LIFE - Library’s never been more popular: New services, bad economy draw record numbers
Seems like everybody is rediscovering the library lately. We had the highest number of checkouts in the history of the library in May. Our June numbers aren’t in yet but we’re expecting the trend to continue. So why are we so popular? Part of it is the economy, with folks choosing to borrow a book or DVD instead of renting or purchasing. And part of it is our redesign project, making it easy to find what you’re looking for and more comfortable with cozy seating areas for kids, teens, and adults. But we like to think it’s our amazing, friendly staff. Book dates
Wednesday, July 8
Jim Hogan will read and sign “Yes We Are!” 7 p.m., Fact & Fiction Downtown, 220 N. Higgins, Missoula. Montana history almanac - Surveying Blackfoot for planned railroad
July 5, 1860
A surveyor and a topographer set out with four men to map the Big Blackfoot River and see if it’s fit to run a railroad through. Lt. C.R. Howard and Theodore Kolecki have just returned from the east slope of the Rocky Mountains on a preliminary reconnaissance. The Way we were: 1930s
Fred and Lydia Beier and their eight children have a family portrait taken in the late 1930s a few years after the family came to Missoula in 1933. The family members are (front row, left to right) Esther (Murray), Delores (Weston), Alvina (Dimmitt) and Eldon. Behind them are Walter, Fred, holding Bonnie (Hiatt), Lydia, Adeline (Felsman) and Viola (Strom). Lenore, Idaho, club turns 100
LENORE, Idaho - The only member older than the Willing Workers Club of Lenore itself is Bina Eberhardt, 101, of Lewiston, born the year before the club was founded in 1909. Summer’s filled with birds and beasts
“Ohhhh, hoppers and mosquitoes, Take salt shaker off the table
As most of my readers know, I’m active with TOPS in Missoula, which means Take Off Pounds Sensibly. This nonprofit organization features support, education and motivation but does not promote diets. One of our members who has just reached her 100-pound weight loss goal often shares some really good ideas on losing weight and who can question someone who has lost 100 pounds without a diet or surgery. She is fond of Lean Cuisine frozen dinners and I found they are also rated high in popularity because of their delicious taste and low calories. She also uses a lot of salads and stew-type dishes Forest Service uses GPS to map beetles
JACKSON, Wyo. - Foresters tracking whitebark pine trees killed by beetles will start using GPS to map the damage. Book life - Group honors 'Three Cups of Tea’ co-author
The National Education Association, the nation’s largest organization of school employees, honored Bozeman-based humanitarian Greg Mortenson, co-author of “Three Cups of Tea: One Man’s Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time,” with a special Human and Civil Rights Award at the Association’s at the group’s annual meeting Thursday in San Diego. Modern miners - Prospectors pan for gold in timeless Libby Creek
LIBBY CREEK - Jon VanDort worked a gentle rhythm, shifting and tilting the shallow bowl with practiced ease, panning for color. Time to read along - Each week, discover real stories that match fiction’s magic
What makes a good book? A lot of people say it’s a good story, especially one that makes you want to turn the page. That’s why people sometimes call a book they like a “page turner.” Messy, unconditional puppy love
The story of Marley, the lovable, laughable Labrador retriever, started as a series of columns in a newspaper. It then became a best-selling book for adults called “Marley and Me,” followed by a movie of the same name. Now, that dog-owning newspaper columnist, John Grogan, has created a kids version of his family’s life with “man’s best friend.” Henry Ford’s jungle folly
From the moment restive medieval scribes began to jot their own thoughts and feelings into the spaces alongside the texts and chronicles they’d been assigned to copy, much that’s most fascinating about Western history has seemed, at first, simply marginalia. |
