Missoula Last day in Montana was full of goodbyes. Meeting friends made over recent years at the Railroad Farmers’ Market and old friends and comrades for a quick dinner was fun and nostalgic. I slept on a cot in the backyard of another old friend and veteran organizer last night in a place where we …
Category: Ideas and Issues
Fire and Rain
Missoula From the time we turned towards the Bitterroot Mountains and the northwestern area of Montana at Butte, we could hardly make out the mountains on either horizon for the haze being created by the fires ahead. Forty-five miles south of Missoula in Drummond, Montana we got out to see if we could see anything …
Presidents and the Jamboree: Johnson 1964 and Trump 2017
Billings All day as we had driven across South Dakota at 85 mph, only a wee 5 miles over the limit, keeping our speed aligned with the size of our wallet, cars and trucks passed us like we were standing still. Early in the trip as some of the vehicles whizzed by, we noticed they …