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COPYRIGHT STATEMENT/MASTHEAD
FROM THE EDITOR
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
THIS ISSUE'S NEW WORK
from “The Waterfall,” a poem by Melissa Kwasny
from “Hidden Birds,” a novel-in-progress by Deirdre McNamer
from “In the Lay of the Land,” a novel-in-progress by Matt Pavelich
“Butte’s America,” a portfolio of photographs by David Spear
FROM THE ARCHIVES
from “Cabin O’Wildwinds: The Story of An Adventure in ‘Homesteading,’” by Ada Melville Shaw, originally published in The Farmer’s Wife, 1931
from “‘Food of Gods and Starvelings’: Selected Poems of Grace Stone Coates”
from “Notes for a Novel: Selected Poems of Frieda Fligelman”
Frieda Fligelman reading from her poems at the Second Story Cinema, Helena, MT, January 22, 1977 (courtesy Alexandra Swaney & Joseph Munzenrider), Windows Media Player or RealPlayer required
ESSAYS
Folklife
“‘It’s Not a Ghost Town ‘til the Last Dog Leaves’: The Ghosts of Tradition in a Montana Mining Camp,” by Darcy Minter
Literature
“Sandra Alcosser: An Appreciation,” by Melissa Kwasny
“All My Stories Are Here: Four Montana Poets—Lahey, Gibbons, Thomas, & Charlo,” by Roger Dunsmore
“Mapping Montana’s Poetic Past,” by Tami Haaland
“Writing History vs. Writing Historical Fiction,” by Guy Vanderhaeghe
Film (& Literature)
“Brokeback Mountain’s Montana Slope,” by Karl Olson
Architecture & Design/Material Culture
“‘Unique and Handsome’: Cass Gilbert’s Designs for the Montana Club,” by Patty Dean
“Trustees for Those Who Come after Us,” by Chere Jiusto
Visual Arts
“The Presence of Absence: The Regardless Sculptures of Richard Swanson,” by Ben Mitchell
Regardless, a short video (13 mb file) by Martin Holt, Montana Art Works, featuring Helena jazz-poetry ensemble States of Matter interacting with Richard Swanson’s Regardless sculptures. Video © 2006 Martin Holt, Montana Art Works; performance © 2006 States of Matter, QuickTime required
“Dust to Dust: The Art of Tracy Linder,” by Patricia Vettel-Becker
“Illustrations for a Text That Does Not Exist: Doug Turman’s Watercolor World,” by Rick Newby
Food/Agriculture
“Local Landscapes/Local Food,” by Max Milton
“Fields of Plenty,” an interview with Michael Ableman, by Brian Kahn, Home Ground Radio
Windows Media Player or RealPlayer required; for more Home Ground interviews, go to:www.yellowstonepublicradio.org/programs/local/home_ground.html
Travels & Translations
“Julia Becker’s Flowebb: Meditations on the Space In-Between,” by Jessica Hunter Larsen
from Death in Persia, a novel by Annemarie Schwarzenbach, translated by Chris Schwarzenbach
REVIEWS
L. A. Huffman: Photographer of the American West, by Larry Len Peterson, reviewed by Mark Browning
We Know Who We Are: Métis Identity in a Montana Community, by Martha Harroun Foster, reviewed by Nicholas Vrooman
Another Attempt at Rescue, by M. L. Smoker, reviewed by Bill Borneman
The Summer He Didn’t Die, by Jim Harrison, reviewed by Brandon Reintjes
Changing Hands: Art without Reservation, an exhibition (with accompanying catalog) at the Museum of Arts & Design, New York, reviewed by Alexandra Swaney
Headwaters Dance: The Premiere Performance, reviewed by Caroline Patterson
IN MEMORIAM
Jack Fisher, Jr., by René Westbrook
Bob Holmes, by Frank Kromkowski
Polly Holmes, by Joan Uda
Willie Walker, by Brian Shovers
CROSS TALK: Our Readers’ Letters
ABOUT OUR CONTRIBUTORS
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Stairway, Asylum Building, Boulder River School, Chere Jiusto, photographer, © 2005 Chere Jiusto.
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Doug Turman, Trout Dream #34, watercolor, 7 x 10 inches, © 1993 Doug Turman.
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Richard Swanson, Rambunctious, painted aluminum, 149 x 156 x 96 inches, © 2005 Richard Swanson. Photograph by Kurt Keller.
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