Glacier National Park Superintendent Chas Cartwright, right, speaks in June at the 75th anniversary celebration for Going-to-the-Sun Road at Lake McDonald Lodge. This was his first day on the job. Blackfeet Chief Old Person is at left.(Garrett Cheen file photo/Daily Inter Lake)
August 15, 2008
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