{"id":14107,"date":"2016-09-12T08:47:26","date_gmt":"2016-09-12T14:47:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lastbestnews.com\/site\/?p=14107"},"modified":"2016-09-13T11:15:16","modified_gmt":"2016-09-13T17:15:16","slug":"montana-ethic-project-the-vital-role-of-the-humanities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/2016\/09\/montana-ethic-project-the-vital-role-of-the-humanities\/","title":{"rendered":"Montana Ethic Project: The vital role of the humanities"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Joey and Libby Early<\/p>

Jamie Doggett speaks on the importance of the humanities.<\/p><\/div>\n

This is the 28th chapter of the 32-part video series \u201cThe Montana Ethic Project.\u201d This chapter features Jamie Doggett, a former chair of the Montana Committee for the Humanities, speaking on “The Role of the Humanities in Functional Communities.” You\u00a0can watch the whole video below. Here is an edited transcript of how it begins:<\/p>\n

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“Hi, I\u2019m Jamie Doggett and I live about 20 miles west of White Sulphur Springs in Paradise, Montana. I\u00a0want to talk with you today about something that I have a passion for. A long time ago I had the\u00a0opportunity to participate in the Montana Committee for the Humanities, now called Humanities\u00a0Montana.<\/p>\n

“The humanities changed my life.”<\/p>\n

Here is another, edited excerpt from Doggett’s\u00a0presentation<\/em>:<\/p>\n

“I\u2019m just an ordinary Montana ranch hand. And I\u2019ve had these wonderful opportunities. The wonderful\u00a0opportunity is when you have a different perspective and you hear different people\u2019s stories. There are\u00a0so many stories across Montana. Some people showed up last summer at my ranch, they had a picture\u00a0of the mountains behind my house. They wanted to know if they could take that picture that had a\u00a0wagon, a woman, and three little kids, and find the exact location by holding it up to the skyline and\u00a0possibly locate where their family\u2019s homestead was.<\/p>\n

“So we stomped around out there in the rocks and the dirt and we finally found this spot. And growing\u00a0there, in the rocks, in a dry old field, were a bunch of irises that had been planted probably 80 years ago.\u00a0One of the ladies took a couple of those irises and she is taking them home with her to Missouri where\u00a0the family originally came from.<\/p>\n

“That\u2019s a story. And that\u2019s what the Humanities do. It tells those stories.”<\/p>\n