Search results for

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.

Matt Blakeslee was born and raised in Billings, MT. In 2015, Matt and his wife Kate started Art House Cinema, a new non-profit independent cinema to bring film and art opportunities to Billings.

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.

On this episode of Field Days, Shane Strecker of Strecker Farms in Bighorn discovers his barley crop mosses the mark for malt.

Genuine Ice Cream is churning out small-batch, handmade ice cream at the corner of North 7th Avenue and West Peach Street in Bozeman.

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.