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Caroline Joan Peixoto is the co-founder and director of River Arts and Books. Her background in community arts and management aligns with her passion of creating spaces of beauty for people to explore and connect. She is an Azorean writer and mother living in the Beartooth Mountains.

On the final episode of Season 16 of Field Days, Shane Strecker of Strecker Farms in Bighorn harvests sugar beets on a mild, sunny afternoon.

Yetta Rose Stein is the Executive Director of Elk River Arts & Lectures based in Livingston. She also serves as the Board Vice President for Opera Montana. Previously, she served as the Managing Editor for Hunger Mountain Review. Stein is a graduate of Hellgate High School and has an MFA from the Vermont College of Fine Arts.

Novelist, essayist, and poet Joe Wilkins was raised on a sheep ranch north of the Bull Mountains of eastern Montana. His novel The Entire Sky recently won the 2025 High Plains International Book Awards for Fiction.

On East Main Street in Bozeman, in the 1916 Baltimore Building under the black-and-white striped awning, the cuisines of Italy and Montana are flavoring a new restaurant.

A “meadup” can be made in Columbus at the Bearded Viking Mead Company. Traveling off Highway 90 to skirt the downtown, nicknamed “Sheep Dip,” and over the railroad tracks and across the Yellowstone River is a Quonset hut where the ancient beverage, mead, is made. Here, CEO and founder JT “Viko” Robertson crafts an ancient form of wine made with honey instead of grapes.

The C.M. Russell Museum contains more than 3,000 pieces of Western art in a complex that covers an entire city block. The Western art complex, a National Historic Landmark, includes Charlie Russell’s fully restored home and studio, where he lived and created for 24 years alongside wife and business partner Nancy Cooper Russell.

Czech-American writer and American Book Award winner Shann Ray teaches at Gonzaga University and poetry at Stanford University. He is a National Endowment for the Arts Fellow and group Fulbright recipient to South Africa.

For 40 years, Caramel Cookie Waffles on 17th Street W has been selling the stroopwafel. The bakery cafe was first opened by Jan and Judy Boogman in 1987, and was sold to new proprietors Lilly Thompson Corning, Erin Heringer, and Katie Edwards two years ago.

In 2010, Elouise Cobell, the long-time treasurer for the Blackfeet Tribe, settled a lawsuit against the US government on behalf of over 500,000 members of several tribes who had been victimized by the US government for decades.