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On this episode of Field Days, even ranchers like Lynn Ashely of Ashely Quarter Horses do paperwork.

The Yellowstone County Museum was founded in 1953 by the Yellowstone Historical Society, Parmly Billings Library, the Pioneers of Eastern Montana, Yellowstone County, and the City of Billings, and has been open to the public since 1956. The museum’s mission is to collect, preserve, and share the history of Montana’s Yellowstone River Basin through a range of dynamic educational programs and storytelling exhibitions.

On the season finale of Field Days, Forsyth rancher Lynn Ashley of Ashley Quarter Horses reflects on just what it takes to sustain the ranch into the future.

In the fifteenth century, several popes issued a series of edicts, which came to be known as the Doctrine of Discovery. The basic tenet of this document was that it gave the church the moral authority to take over any land that was owned by people who were not Christian, or white.

Dr. Janine Pease is a Crow educator and advocate. She is a board member of the Crow Language Consortium and the founding president of the Little Big Horn College, as well as the past President of the American Indian Higher Education Consortium and Director of the American Indian College Fund.

Artists Mark Earnhart and Jodi Lightner have a joint exhibition, Suspended Intervals, at Yellowstone Art Museum in Billings. Both are professors in the Department of Art at Montana State University Billings. Lightner earned an MFA in painting from Wichita State University and specializes in painting and drawing. She is the Chair of the art department at MSUB. Earnhart specializes in sculpture and three-dimensional practices and received an MFA from the University of Maryland.

Jazz music in all its many forms is an American invention. In Billings, the genre is gaining a greater audience and a growing interest in higher education.On this episode of Resounds, MSU Billings Music professors Dr. Scott Jeppesen and Roxanne Jeppesen and pianist/arranger Jayden Ostler discuss music education, the Rocky Mountain Jazz Collective, and their performances in this region.

16 September 2024

A community leader, volunteer, and Executive Director of the largest performing arts center in a five-state region, Jan Dietrich has an impressive career in the nonprofit world. In the summer of 2026, Dietrich retires after ten years at the helm of the Alberta Bair Theater (ABT) in Billings.

Jeff Mangan is a former state representative and state senator, and he also served for six years as the Commissioner for Political Practices.