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20 January 2022

13 January 2023

Filmmaker and documentarian Kirk LeClaire grew up in Billings at a pivotal time for music. In 2022, he released two albums contrasting very different musical scenes in Montana: bar bands of the 1970s and early punk, post punk, new wave and hardcore bands.

3 March 2023

24 February 2023

Cara Chamberlain is a conservationist and advocate of animals of all kinds. In 2023, her latest collection of poems, To Gaze Upon Their Loveliness, was released by Finishing Line Press in Kentucky. The collection is full of poetic love letters, not to the natural world, but from the natural world. Chamberlain has long written about her love of animals and the natural world in her poetry, and she is also the author of Hidden Things, The Divine Botany, and Lament of the Antichrist in a Secular World and Other Poems.

Two thirds of Lake County is made up of the Flathead Reservation, which includes the Confederation of Salish and Kootenai Tribes along with the Flathead tribe. And because this county borders Flathead Lake, the tribes share a responsibility with the state to manage the fish and wildlife as well as the environment for the county. My guests this week are both wildlife biologists who have worked closely with the tribes and the state and federal entities to help maintain a healthy environment in Lake County.

The name of Big Timber, Montana, comes from the original source of most of its income, which was a large saw mill. Big Timber came about when it was decided that the original county seat of Sweet Grass County, a town called Dornix, was needed to be relocated on higher ground. The sawmill is long gone in Big Timber, and today the town relies mostly on agriculture to support its population, although one branch of the Stillwater Mine, which is one of the most lucrative businesses in Montana, is also located in Big Timber.

This is the second of a two-part series on the Roosevelt Center and the many artists who have come it call it home.

19 April 2021