I know some people were upset last week when they heard that “406” will not be Montana’s only area code forever. Others were relieved that the day of reckoning had been postponed from 2019 to 2031. (more…) Continue Reading →
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Editor’s note: When this Lay of the Land series started, I explained how it came into being by accident, after several people sent me unsolicited essays. Now, having published 16 of these pieces, all of them looking at life in Montana, we have come to the end of the twice-a-month series. (more…) Continue Reading →
Filed under: Lay of the Land, A.B. Guthrie, Plenty Coups, The Big Sky, University of Montana
History in our hands, in our hearts
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On a bookshelf above my desk, Thomas Hickey looks down at me every day with his perpetual expression of forlorn longing. All I know of Mr. Hickey is that he lived at 14 Patrick Street, Fermoy, and that he was 45 years old when he died on Oct. 28, 1942. (more…) Continue Reading →