WHAT'S HAPPENING!

Montana Governor’s Conference on Tourism
            April 17-18 in West Yellowstone, Montana

Montana Ghost Town Preservation Society Annual Convention
            September 5-7, Butte

Montana History Conference
            October 16-18, in Glasgow, Montana

National Trust for Historic Preservation Conference
October 21-25 in Tulsa, Oklahoma

 
National Folk Festival Coming to Butte
July 11-13, 2008

This is the festival to end all festivals for Montana’s history buffs, preservationists, food fanatics, and music lovers alike. The nation’s oldest outdoor festival featuring traditional music, dance, art and cuisine will take place in Butte starting this July and continuing each July for two more years. 

Set against the backdrop of the Original Mineyard and Uptown Butte the free festival will feature: Seven stages with over 250 of the nation’s finest performers of the music and dance that springs from the hearts of our people. Plus up to 50 traditional artist and craft vendors as well as Native American crafters will showcase their wares at the Montana Traditions Market Place.  And traditional cuisines ranging from Indian fry bread to Cornish Pasties will be available in abundance. Don’t miss the chance to boogie down at the National Folk Festival this July.

EXHIBITS

Then and Now: Re-Photographing Missoula Offers Visual Perspective
on Area History

Ongoing at the Missoula County Airport

Then and Now: Re-Photographing Missoula, a permanent exhibition of thirty-two historic and contemporary photographs of Missoula County, opened at the Missoula County Airport on Tuesday, April 3. The photographs represent a time-tested method for recording and showing a place’s past and present through photography: re-photographing carefully selected historic images from the same location as those originals. It is a uniquely visual approach to local history that inspires close examination and inquiry.

Three local photographers—Chris Autio, Kristi Hager, and Marcy James—located the point from which historic photographs were taken then re-shot the image on large-format black and white film. The intrepid photographers gained access to tall buildings, climbed the water tower at Fort Missoula, and enlisted the help of locals to accurately determine the location of the vintage photographs. The exhibit, now a permanent feature of the newly remodeled airport, will welcome new arrivals to Missoula with a memorial to the past.