Margaret E. Davis: Peaks and Valleys
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A memorable performance for several reasons
We thought it was just a piece of trash on the road to Bigfork. It seemed to flutter in the wind like a brown paper bag. As we got closer, we saw it was earthbound and alive.
Six things may be Good enough
Or maybe they were just regular Northwest Montanans, judging from the activities of many current Kalispell residents.
Plots’ points send a message
My family often braked for graveyards in our decades of Montana adventures, and I fondly recall the first cross-country meet of the season in high school, which took place in an Anaconda cemetery.
Everyone's got a story to share
Emcee Barbara Schiffman stepped to the fore in the Arts & Technology Building at Flathead Valley Community College one evening last spring to announce the setup for that night’s “story concert.”
Turn and face the change
We can’t change the certainty of change. That’s the source of our frustration with it. It highlights our lack of control and the folly of foresight as it neatly sidesteps expectation.
We can see clearly now
For more than 50 years, travelers along U.S. 2 might have spied a bison in a plexiglass “tank” mounted atop a pole on the north side of the road where Kalispell gives way to Evergreen.
We craft the future to come
Any one of these things would make a community proud, and Kalispell got three new landmarks in six months.
Traditional craft never gets old
When artist and Salish Kootenai College educator Frank Finley gave a talk at the Bigfork Art & Cultural Center last summer, he shared many ways to look at Native American art. One thing he said in particular caught…
Tread the boards and take a bow
What a marvel to see a living resume parade in front of you, and to have honed hundreds of students’ strengths and sparked creativity, all while asking kids to risk self-expression and to experiment and expand thei…
Rock needs a new place
Sure the place was a little dusty, and the alphabetizing made no sense, but it made the hunt all that more potentially rewarding. Who knew so many records from France would end up in the Flathead?
Curiosity brings lives to light
The Great Falls native took off to teach in Shanghai motivated by the notion that “the world isn’t as scary as the nightly news makes it out to be.”
At curtain, I’ll fake Manhattan
Flathead Valley opera fans have it pretty good.
86th mission lasted 1,881 days
Tom was my grandmother’s favorite relative judging by the clippings she displayed wherever she lived.
Slayer plays the mall
The first time I ventured to the community chess club in the Kalispell Center Mall, the adults outnumbered the kids and just a game or two was under way.
Kalispell, are you ready to walk?
Use it or lose it, right?