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Dr. Jane Goodall, founder of the Jane Goodall Institute and a UN Messenger of Peace, will speak at the University of Montana on Sunday, June 26. Goodall’s talk, “Hope Through Action,” is part of UM’s President’s Lecture Series and co-sponsored by UM’s Maureen and Mike Mansfield Center and the International Wildlife Film Festival. The lecture, which is free and open to the … [Read more...] about Famed ethologist and conservationist Dr. Jane Goodall to speak at UM

It was a remarkable World’s Fair. It introduced us to the Ferris Wheel, Wrigley’s Juicy Fruit gum, diet carbonated drinks and Cracker Jacks – not to mention phrases like the White City and the Midway Plaisance. Chicago’s 1893 Columbia Exhibition (marking, a year late, the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus’ landing in the New World) was one of a kind. The … [Read more...] about Harmon’s Histories: 1893 World’s Fair debuted the Ferris Wheel, Cracker Jacks

“The Montana Historical Society is the guardian of Montana's memory. Established in 1865, (it is) one of the oldest institutions of its kind in the West,” in its own words. It had a rough start, though. Just eight years after its establishment, the entire collection was destroyed by fire. Historical Society president W.F. Sanders and corresponding secretary Granville … [Read more...] about Harmon’s Histories: Montana Historical Society’s journey from ashes to 21st century icon

It was an impressive sight from Missoula’s Higgins Avenue Bridge. “Everywhere there were lights and everywhere were there people.” It was Saturday night, February 18, 1911. Nearly 350 people crowded into the “new passenger station of the Chicago, Milwaukee & Puget Sound Railroad” for the Red Apple Banquet. Among them were 63 members of the state legislature, “the … [Read more...] about Harmon’s Histories: Milwaukee Depot delighted Missoulians at 1911 debut

Missoula School Superintendent J.M. Hamilton was irate. Truancy was spiking in the fall of 1895, largely due to the repeated absences of two or three young boys. “If the parents of these children do not give more attention to getting their children to school promptly they will be summoned before the board of trustees to explain the cause of this tardiness!” he … [Read more...] about Harmon’s Histories: Missoula boys skip school to spend days in ‘truancy barn’