AT LAKE McDONALD, IN GLACIER NATIONAL PARK IN JULY 2018, my moment came late in the day, after the trailhead parking lots had emptied, after the swimmers had docked their giant pink dragon floatie, after the families had retreated to campgrounds to roast marshmallows, after...
BIG SKY COUNTRY IS ALSO BIG BEAR COUNTRY. Most estimates suggest that Montana has between 13,000 and 17,000 black bears (Ursus americanus) and roughly 800 grizzly bears (Ursus arctos ssp.). Most of the grizzlies in the contiguous U.S. live in and around Glacier and Yellowstone...
IN CLASSIC FASHION FOR a college student in upstate New York, Sam Hoffmann first started brewing beer in his dorm room. But it was a childhood spent traveling around the rural byways of Europe that sparked his interest in beer, cider, local foods, vineyards, and...
More than $1,023,000 worth of art was sold when the gavel dropped on the last art piece during the 38th annual Buffalo Bill Art Show and Sale—bringing an end to another successful series of events. The Buffalo Bill Art Show & Sale benefits the Cody Country...
In August 2015, award-winning artist Mary Edna Fraser was Glacier National Park’s Artist in Residency and stayed at the Sperry Chalet to inspire and create her work. The result: 14 plein air oils, photography, books, and numerous batiks on silk. Experience this variety of artwork in...
Thanks to partnerships with Glyndebourne opera and the National Theatre, both in the UK, and Montana Shakespeare in the Schools, Tippet Rise is extending its calendar of cultural events into October. Weather permitting; Tippet Rise will also re-open for hiking and biking for the first...
The Yellowstone Art Museum proudly announces the fall 2019 exhibition of Jill Krutick’s “Metamorphosis,” an uplifting display of original abstract paintings by this emerging New York-based artist. The exhibition opens on November 7, 2019 and a reception with the artist will take place that evening between 6:00pm and...
The lurking menaces in the lives of each character in Fall Back Down When I Die by Joe Wilkins (Little, Brown and Company, $27) are like the wolves that have begun reappearing in the mountains of Eastern Montana: shadowy, elusive, and always just out of...
FOR A FEW DAYS IN EARLY JUNE, Bozeman positively brimmed with activity and emotion: Cubans moved furniture out of the way and danced for pleasure; Afghan women biked across a beige desert; a Kiwi fire chief strove to save a cardboard city from burning; Pakistani...
PLENTY OF WESTERN ARTISTS AND THEIR CRITICS LIKE TO TALK ABOUT "PLACE" as a primary inspiration for their work, but when artist Ted Waddell speaks of the landscape, he refers to the actual ground itself. His use of the word “ground” when one expects to...