People & Place

  • The Livingston Food Resource Center

    By Hunter D’Antuono
    Up to 50 percent of the center’s food acquisition dollars are spent on Montana farmers. Local farmers also reap the benefits of using the food center’s kitchen as a place to affordably process and package their produce––something that adds significant sale value to what they grow.
  • For The Love Of… HOPA MOUNTAIN

    Working through local Community Teams in rural and tribal Montana communities, StoryMakers offers parents of 11,000+ children 0-5 resources, support, and networks to build strong early learning home environments.
  • Montanan You Should Know: JOHN HEMINWAY

    By John Heminway
    John Heminway is is an author and award-winning filmmaker, having produced and written more than 200 documentaries on subjects ranging from travel, to brain science, evolution, and natural history.
  • “The Last Best Stories" Podcast

    By Joseph Shelton
    Montana’s highways and byways really are perfect for podcasts.  Thousands of miles are coiled along our beautiful state’s long and winding roads.  Even with the radio on, and beautiful scenery to distract, our lonesome, dusty roads can stretch on and on.
  • HAVRE: Jewel of the Hi-Line

    By John Paul Schmidt 
    The ninth-largest city of Montana, Havre stands a handful of miles away from the Canadian border in North-Central Montana. Havre flourished by riding on the back of the former Great Northern Railway and a major stop on U.S. Highway 2 in later years.
  • Wild West Words: COFFEE & JOHNNYCAKE

    By Chrysti the Wordsmith
    Corn was a well-established English word for any type of edible grain such as wheat, rye, barley, and the like.  In this tradition, English speakers began calling the native maize “Indian Corn.”  In time, American colonists and their descendants adopted and adapted  “Indian Corn” preparations into such traditional dishes as corn pone, chowder, hominy, spoonbread, succotash, hush puppies. 
  • Great Bear Foundation

    By Shannon Donahue
    In 1982, a pair of enthusiastic University of Montana graduate students walked into the office of wildlife biology professor and pioneering bear biologist, Dr. Charles Jonkel, fired up about the plight of the grizzly bear.