Arts & Events

Edward L. Bonner was up early the morning of July 10, 1902. He couldn’t wait to take his new automobile out for a test drive. He and University of Montana Professor Morton J. Elrod had spent the previous day making sure the machine was road ready.

The only survivor of Diamond City, Montana's boom and bust was the newspaper, the Rocky Mountain Husbandman, which continued to cover the life and times of area farmers and ranchers. It included the perspectives of women on life, marriage and farm life.

One of the most forefront names in Americana, Todd Snider returned to the Wilma earlier this month for his First Agnostic Church of Hope and Wonder tour after almost a year-and-a-half break due to the Covid pandemic.

If we want to take a car trip to Coeur d'Alene or Spokane in the winter, we just check the forecast – and go. Such a venture was not even considered back in the day – until the era of the railroad. Even then, the route following the old Mullan Trail was dicey.

Most of life’s decisions are routine and inconsequential. Then again, some turn out to be life-changing. So it was with two brothers from St. Johns, New Brunswick, who moved to western Montana in the 1890s.

Jim Harmon writes, "While references to heart disease can be found dating back to ancient times in Greek and Arab writings, remarkably nearly all major advancements in our knowledge of the heart and treatment of heart disease have occurred in our lifetime."

The local paper described her as "a poor orphan girl, who through unfortunate circumstances, had been thrown upon this cold and clammy world and compelled to eke out her own existence ... "

For drummer Mike Calabrese, Lake Street Dive's new album marks a transition as band members begin to settle down and raise children, while also allowing them to create music that continually allows them to speak their opinions and attitudes.

This summer we’ve all been awakened to a world where the climate problem that was supposed to be decades away is actually today’s emergency. Drought, extreme heat, ever-lengthening wildfire season, smoke, storms. There’s no denying we’re all affected.

Shortly after midnight I was awakened by a cold breath on my burning cheek, and setting up beheld, to my horror, a huge kangaroo hopping around the room.