Montana
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When I was growing up in Townsend, Montana, we had a movie theatre that showed two movies a week. The first one on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday was always a newer one. By “newer” I mean released within the previous couple of years. (For example, it would take at least a year to a year-and-a-half Read more
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Richard Hugo taught me that anyone with a desire to write, an ear for language and a bit of imagination could become a writer. He also, in a way, gave me permission to write about northern Montana. ~ James Welch Read more
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Here in the North Country Richard Hugo’s name does not come up in many discussions. He is a Western poet after all, not a Midwestern one. There is a difference: in tone, subject, and in edginess. Hugo’s volume of collected poetry takes its title from this poem. “Making Certain It Goes On” is one of his Read more
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In the summer of 1984, I drove a 1964 Galaxy 500 (Deluxe Sport Coupe) 1713 miles from Dillon, Montana to Saginaw, Michigan with only one companion – a beat-up paperback edition of Richard Brautigan’s Trout Fishing in America. The radio was original with the car. In eastern Montana and western North Dakota I could seldom pick Read more
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On September 21st, 1971, Baltimore Orioles Dave McNally won his 20th game for the fourth consecutive season when he blanked New York at Yankee Stadium, 5-0. The lefty became the first of the four 20-game winners on the club, which would include Jim Palmer, Mike Cuellar, and Pat Dobson. Dave McNally is one of just Read more
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