August 2024
Under the direction of Gordon Carpenter, Independent Theatre (in association with Suffer Out Loud and Active Minds MSU) presents Hugh Burroughs in Duncan Macmillan’s award-winning interactive comedy, Every Brilliant Thing. Performances will…
August 2024
Sydney Jones
Opening a new brewery in Bozeman is no easy task. Many have tried and failed, closing their doors after a few years, or even just a few months. But one step into Après Brewing, and it’s clear this place is here to stay. Located where…
August 2024
Ken Walcheck
Touring Yellowstone National Park in the 1920’s by automobile was a spirited adventure in itself, especially if your touring vehicle was a 1920’s Model T Ford. The Model T was colloquially known by many during this era as a “Tin…
August 2024
Rachel Phillips
One day in August of 2023, a man wandered into the Gallatin History Museum research center and introduced himself as Raphael Lang. He was trying to find information on his great-great-grandmother and asked if we could help him. He explained that he…
August 2024
Jessica Cairoli
As August brings another beautiful Montana summer to a close, it’s easy to be overwhelmed by all the things we have yet to do; Bozeman has so much to offer, and three months hardly seems like enough time to squeeze everything in. Visitors and…
August 2024
I know a lot of people are struggling to make ends meet here these days. It doesn’t come up often in daily conversations in my circles because of a confluence of societal pressure, feelings of shame in admitting you’re struggling to get…
July 2024
Ken Walcheck
As a retired wildlife biologist, I am quite concerned with the extent and magnitude of the world-wide shift of a changing and warming climate and collapse of biodiversity and pervasive pollution now occurring. I am also concerned that a segment…
July 2024
Change is constantly with us. Even during the 1950s and 1960s, Bozeman grew by fifty percent, from a population of 12,000 to 18,000. Then, the northern limit of the city was Oak Street, two dirt ruts that ran along a deep irrigation ditch at the edge…
July 2024
From Bozeman to Baker and What I Learned Along the Way
What comes to mind with when we hear “homestead”? You probably have a general idea of what they are and when they existed. Covered-wagon times. Settlers and Pioneers. Free land. You might even be thinking of Steinbeck’s The Grapes…
July 2024
Rachel Phillips
As a kid, one of my favorite summertime activities was helping my parents make homemade ice cream on the Fourth of July. We had a bright blue slatted wooden bucket with a hand crank and interior metal canister with wooden paddles. After filling the…
