In the summer of 2013, when I was working on a story for the Montana Quarterly about the Shonkin Sag and Lost Lake, the Sag’s most spectacular geological feature, I was continually amazed at how little known they were. I made a point of asking every native Montanan I ran into, including a handful of native Montanans who also happened to be geologists, about the Shonkin Sag, located southeast of Great Falls. (more…) Continue Reading →
Shonkin Sag
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Prairie Lights: A best-of list for all of our ‘new visitors’
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If I had to choose my favorite story out of the 600-some pieces that have been posted on Last Best News in the 17 months of its existence, I think I’d go with our story on the Brockway Dairy Day Rodeo. (more…) Continue Reading →
Filed under: Prairie Lights, Ann Coulter, Brockway, John Warner, Kate Morris, Montana Quarterly, Shonkin Sag, Terry Badlands
Prairie Lights: Refining the Montana bucket list
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Excuse me for being late on this, but I just discovered (on Facebook, the unsleeping recycler of pop culture) that the Great Falls Tribune published a Big Sky bucket list in December. The Tribune presented “100 activities every Montanan should have on a bucket list of things to do in a lifetime.” I found it impossible not to read the article from start to finish, and impossible not to keep a running tally of how many of the activities I had already done. (more…) Continue Reading →
Filed under: Prairie Lights, Brockway Dairy Day Rodeo, Crazy Mountain Inn, Great Falls Tribune, Magic City Blues, Missouri Headwaters State Park, Montana Folk Festival, Oxford Saloon
Too much visual information
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A friend of mine who used to go to the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival every year told me that on the drive back to Montana, after four or five solid days of music, he couldn’t even listen to the radio. He was filled to the gills, exhausted, all the listening space between his ears depleted. (more…) Continue Reading →
Filed under: Photo Galleries, Prairie Lights, Belt, Geraldine, Livingston, Lost Lake, Monarch, Montague
Backstory: Discovering ‘The Sag’
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On our way to Fort Benton last spring, my wife Lisa was driving on the last leg of our trip, and we found ourselves on a road we’d never been on before — Highway 80 between Stanford and Fort Benton. (more…) Continue Reading →
Filed under: Diversions, Last Best Blog, Montana, Davidson, DeLorme, Fort Benton, Shonkin Sag, Square Butte
Montana’s own Niagara Falls
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Except for a stint in the service, Hank Armstrong has lived most of his 86 years in the house his grandparents built in 1910, seven miles east of Geraldine, Montana. He is a local historian, seemingly familiar with every square inch of land for miles around his native hearth and the stories of everyone who has lived there over the decades. Continue Reading →
