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21 April 2025

Dr. Ilse-Mari Lee Hastings is the President and founder of the Montana Youth Symphony. She joined the faculty of MSU in the fall of 1989 and served as Dean of the Honors College. She holds a doctorate in Cello Performance and Pedagogy, as well as master’s degrees in Cello Performance, Music Theory, and Composition.

Tami Haaland is the author of four poetry collections: If I Had Said Beauty, What Does Not Return, When We Wake in the Night, and Breath in Every Room, which was the winner of the Nicholas Roerich First Book Award.

16 June 2025

The West has a complicated history when it comes to its African American population, but it is estimated that at least 25 percent of the early cowboys in the West were Black.

Corrie Williamson was born on a small farm in southwestern Virginia. She is the author of two previous poetry books: The River Where You Forgot My Name, which was a 2019 Montana Book Award Honor Book, and Sweet Husk, which won the 2014 Perugia Press Prize and was a finalist for the 2015 Library of Virginia Poetry Award. Joe Wilkins was raised on a sheep ranch north of the Bull Mountains of eastern Montana. He is a novelist, essayist, and poet.

On this episode of Field Days, Shane Strecker of Strecker Farms in Bighorn plants a sugar beet field using his wits and a half-million dollars’ worth of technology.

18 August 2025

In 1979, an army of people took over the Outlaw Inn in Kalispell, Montana, led by a man who had just won two Academy Awards for what would eventually become known as the pinnacle of his career: The Deer Hunter. Michael Cimino would spend the next eight months shooting a film that sent one of the most highly respected film studios into bankruptcy. Heaven's Gate is considered to this day one of the biggest financial disasters in the history of film, despite some of the most stunning scenery ever brought to the screen.

On the premiere episode of Season 16 of Field Days, Bighorn farmer Shane Strecker works on his sugar beet planter in the wet, windy March days before the season begins.