Helena

Last year, several Helena-area nonprofit organizations began talking about a plan to work together for a major affordable housing partnership.

The Poor Farm in the 1800s housed the elderly who had no one to care for them, people who were disabled and unable to work, and orphaned or abandoned children.

Today’s article might be titled, “A Dozen Clues You’re Not From Montana.” Newbies to the state quite often mispronounce one or more of the following place names or family names: Olney, Pablo, Choteau, Havre, Worden, Ronan, Ravalli, Pondera, Helena, Meagher, Wibaux and Deschamps.