Montana Heritage Tour: Part 5
Hard Rock, Hard Scrabble. Visiting Carbon County Historical Society Museum in Red Lodge; Museum of the Beartooths in Columbus; and Upper Mussellshell Museum in Harlowton. A collaboration between the Montana Historical Society and Helena Civic Television (HCTV).
Carbon County Historical Society + Museum at the Red Lodge Fun Run for Charities
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Taming Big Sky Country: The History of Montana Transportation from Trails to Interstates
The state’s major routes evolved from ancient Native American trails into four-lane expressways in a little over a century. That story is one of difficult, groundbreaking, and sometimes poor engineering decisions, as well as a desire to make a journey faster, safer, and more comfortable. It all started in 1860, when John Mullan hacked a wagon road over the formidable Rocky Mountains to Fort Benton. It continued until the last section of interstate highway opened to traffic in 1988. Montana Department of Transportation historian Jon Axline charts a road trip through the colorful and inspiring history of trails, roads, and superhighways in Big Sky Country. Presence of the Past Program Series, February 18, 2016
Remembering the Smith Mine Disaster with Jeff McNeish
Join us in remembering the 75th anniversary of the Smith Mine Disaster as Jeff McNeish tells us the story of the explosion and the men who were trapped there.
Western Ride part 4, Red Lodge, Montana to Flaming Gorge, Utah.mp4
Part 4: Red Lodge, Montana to Flaming Gorge, Utah.
3 Danish Harley riders on adventure in the Wild West late September 2006. Red Lodge, Smith Mine, Bearcreek, Dinosaur Museum, Thermopolis, Flaming Gorge Dam, Sheep Creek Loop, Sheep Creek Canyon Geological Area.
HO Smith Mine Diorama Night Photo Compilation
This video clip is a photo compilation of the Smith Mine No.3 diorama completed and delivered to the Carbon County Historical Society Museum in Red Lodge, Montana in July 2012. This project was a full scratch building effort to reproduce the Smith Mine as it once looked back in the 1930’s. This compilation is of the diorama photographed after sundown with all the lighting on. Special thanks to Peter John Ross and Sonnyboo.com for the music clip.
You can view more photos and details of this custom model railroad layout project on my website at layoutdynamics.com. Let me know if there’s something I can build for you. Thanks for watching.
This video used to be on my old YouTube account at modelrailroadbuilder so you may have seen it before. This new Layout Dynamics account will be where all my new custom model railroad project videos will be posted in the future.
Crow Nation
The Crow, called the Apsáalooke in their own Siouan language, or variants including Absaroka, are Native Americans, who in historical times lived in the Yellowstone River valley, which extends from present-day Wyoming, through Montana and into North Dakota, where it joins the Missouri River. Today, they are enrolled in the federally recognized Crow Tribe of Montana.
Pressured by the Ojibwe and Cree peoples, who had earlier and better access to guns through the fur trade, they had migrated there from the Ohio Eastern Woodland area to settle south of Lake Winnipeg, Canada. From there, they were pushed to the west by the Cheyennes. Both the Crow and the Cheyennes were then pushed farther west by the Lakota, who took over the territory from the Black Hills of South Dakota to the Big Horn Mountains of Montana; the Cheyennes finally became close allies of the Sioux, but the Crows remained bitter enemies of both Sioux and Cheyennes. The Crow were generally friendly with the whites and managed to retain a large reservation of over 9300 km2 despite territorial losses.
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Montana ( (listen)) is a state in the Northwestern United States. Montana has several nicknames, although none are official, including Big Sky Country and The Treasure State, and slogans that include Land of the Shining Mountains and more recently The Last Best Place.Montana is the 4th largest in area, the 8th least populous, and the 3rd least densely populated of the 50 U.S. states. The western half of Montana contains numerous mountain ranges. Smaller island ranges are found throughout the state. In total, 77 named ranges are part of the Rocky Mountains. The eastern half of Montana is characterized by western prairie terrain and badlands. Montana is bordered by Idaho to the west, Wyoming to the south, North Dakota and South Dakota to the east, and the Canadian provinces of British Columbia, Alberta, and Saskatchewan to the north.
The economy is primarily based on agriculture, including ranching and cereal grain farming. Other significant economic resources include oil, gas, coal, hard rock mining, and lumber. The health care, service, and government sectors also are significant to the state's economy.
The state's fastest-growing sector is tourism. Nearly 13 million tourists annually visit Glacier National Park, Yellowstone National Park, the Beartooth Highway, Flathead Lake, Big Sky Resort, and other attractions.
Introducing the Rural Philanthropy Toolkit
Recording of a webinar presented Tuesday, February 26, 2019 with the NORC Walsh Center for Rural Health Analysis on how rural organizations can build partnerships with philanthropies to further their missions and improve local health.
It features two rural organizations discussing their personal experience building these types of relationships with philanthropies and also delved into how rural organizations can use the RHIhub's new Rural Philanthropy toolkit ( created in collaboration with the Walsh Center, to assist in these efforts.
Speakers include:
-Alycia Bayne, MPA, Senior Research Scientist at the NORC Walsh Center for Rural Health Analysis
-Kelly Heaton, Executive Director of Power Up, Speak Out
-Paul Lindberg, JD, Collective Impact Health Specialist
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Sally Jewell on Health and Nature
On Thursday, October 26, a sold out crowd at Benaroya Hall heard former U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell deliver the 2017 Doug Walker Lecture. Secretary Jewell spoke on the the role public lands and nature play in our lives, and the importance of connecting all people to the natural world.
The 2017 Doug Walker Lecture is presented by the UW College of the Environment, in partnership with the REI Co-op and Seattle Foundation.
National Capital Planning Commission Meeting (USA) - April 5, 2012
Proceedings from the April 5, 2012 meeting of the National Capital Planning Commission.
Auburn Coach Wife Kristi Malzahn Agrees with Match & eHarmony: Men are Jerks
My advice is this: Settle! That's right. Don't worry about passion or intense connection. Don't nix a guy based on his annoying habit of yelling Bravo! in movie theaters. Overlook his halitosis or abysmal sense of aesthetics. Because if you want to have the infrastructure in place to have a family, settling is the way to go. Based on my observations, in fact, settling will probably make you happier in the long run, since many of those who marry with great expectations become more disillusioned with each passing year. (It's hard to maintain that level of zing when the conversation morphs into discussions about who's changing the diapers or balancing the checkbook.)
Obviously, I wasn't always an advocate of settling. In fact, it took not settling to make me realize that settling is the better option, and even though settling is a rampant phenomenon, talking about it in a positive light makes people profoundly uncomfortable. Whenever I make the case for settling, people look at me with creased brows of disapproval or frowns of disappointment, the way a child might look at an older sibling who just informed her that Jerry's Kids aren't going to walk, even if you send them money. It's not only politically incorrect to get behind settling, it's downright un-American. Our culture tells us to keep our eyes on the prize (while our mothers, who know better, tell us not to be so picky), and the theme of holding out for true love (whatever that is—look at the divorce rate) permeates our collective mentality.
Even situation comedies, starting in the 1970s with The Mary Tyler Moore Show and going all the way to Friends, feature endearing single women in the dating trenches, and there's supposed to be something romantic and even heroic about their search for true love. Of course, the crucial difference is that, whereas the earlier series begins after Mary has been jilted by her fiancé, the more modern-day Friends opens as Rachel Green leaves her nice-guy orthodontist fiancé at the altar simply because she isn't feeling it. But either way, in episode after episode, as both women continue to be unlucky in love, settling starts to look pretty darn appealing. Mary is supposed to be contentedly independent and fulfilled by her newsroom family, but in fact her life seems lonely. Are we to assume that at the end of the series, Mary, by then in her late 30s, found her soul mate after the lights in the newsroom went out and her work family was disbanded? If her experience was anything like mine or that of my single friends, it's unlikely.
And while Rachel and her supposed soul mate, Ross, finally get together (for the umpteenth time) in the finale of Friends, do we feel confident that she'll be happier with Ross than she would have been had she settled down with Barry, the orthodontist, 10 years earlier? She and Ross have passion but have never had long-term stability, and the fireworks she experiences with him but not with Barry might actually turn out to be a liability, given how many times their relationship has already gone up in flames. It's equally questionable whether Sex and the City's Carrie Bradshaw, who cheated on her kindhearted and generous boyfriend, Aidan, only to end up with the more exciting but self-absorbed Mr. Big, will be better off in the framework of marriage and family. (Some time after the breakup, when Carrie ran into Aidan on the street, he was carrying his infant in a Baby Björn. Can anyone imagine Mr. Big walking around with a Björn?)