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Acknowledgments

This Issue’s Original Work
“Scrabble,” a story by Caroline Patterson
“Close to the Fire,” a story by Thomas Thackeray
Eight poems by Lowell Jaeger
Eight poems by Roger Dunsmore
Paintings 2006, a portfolio by Gordon McConnell
Beartooth Catch, a short film by Amy Brakeman Livezey

From the Archives
Second installment: “Cabin O’Wildwinds: The Story of An Adventure in ‘Homesteading,’” by Ada Melville Shaw, illustrated by Irvin “Shorty” Shope; originally published in The Farmer’s Wife, 1931

Essays

Architecture & Design
“Learning Montana, Evolving Place,” by Lori Ryker
“The David and Ann Shaner Resident Studio Building, Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic Arts, Helena, Montana,” by Rick Newby
“The Archie Bray Foundation Series,” a portfolio of black-and-white photographs by J. M. Cooper

Health
“‘To Turn the Dark Cloud Inside Out’: American Red Cross Home Service in Montana, 1917–1925,” by Joan Bishop
“Ghost Illness: A Cross-Cultural Experience with the Expression of a Non-Western Tradition in Clinical Practice,” by Robert W. Putsch, III, MD

Literature
“A Montana Coal Miner: History and Poetry,” by Peggy Riley
from The Tree of Meaning: Thirteen Talks, by Robert Bringhurst
“High, Wide, and Greening: A Survey of Montana’s Environmental Literature,” by O. Alan Weltzien

Music
“St. Timothy’s Summer Music Festival,” by Wilbur Rehmann
“David Murray & the Montana Jazz Community,” by Alexandra Swaney, Wilbur Rehmann, & MJ Williams


Visual Arts
“Remembering Bill Stockton,” an essay by Donna Forbes & a poem by Rick Newby
“Tensions, Paradoxes, and Impurities: The Truth of the Matter: Paintings by Sandra Dal Poggetto,” by Mark Stevens

Food/Agriculture
“Grubshedding: The Art of Eating Close to Home,” by Ari LeVaux

Travels & Translations
“Levantine Diaries: Looking for Home in Lebanon, Iraq, San Francisco, Kentucky, and Places Like That,” by Clay Scott

Reviews
Jeannette Rankin: A Political Woman by James Lopach and Jean Luckowski and Jeannette Rankin: America’s Conscience by Norma Smith, reviewed by Bridget Whearty
Motherlode: Legacies of Women’s Lives and Labors in Butte, Montana, edited by Janet L. Finn and Ellen Crain, reviewed by Mary Hoffschwelle
Horses They Rode by Sid Gustafson, reviewed by O. Alan Weltzien
Off the Grid: Modern Houses and Alternative Energy by Lori Ryker, reviewed by Florence Williams
Thistle by Melissa Kwasny, reviewed by Paul S. Piper
Let It Be by Colin Meloy, reviewed by Bill Borneman
The Miriam Sample Collection, 1985–2005 by Miriam Sample & Gordon McConnell, reviewed by Rick Newby
Reflection, an exhibition by Nan Parsons, reviewed by Dale Livezey
Edd Enders, part of the exhibition, Figure.Place.Space, reviewed by Michele Corriel
A Montana Dream Nutcracker, by the Missouri River Dance Company, reviewed by Mary Scriver

In Memoriam
Patricia Goedicke, by Melissa Kwasny
Dave Walter, by Dorothy Bradley & Ron Brey
Harriett Cruttenden Meloy, by Claudia Montagne