Organizers of the Glacier Jazz Stampede are quick to challenge the stereotype that Montana is all cowboys and country music. And, they add, southern cities like New Orleans and St. Louis aren’t the only towns with rockin’ jazz.
“Montana is not just horses, hicks and cold,” said festival co-chair John Van, a member of the Montana Dixieland Society that organizes the event. “We’re educated and we have some of the finest jazz musicians in the world playing right here in the Flathead Valley.”
Annual Jazz Festival Celebrates 15th Year in Kalispell
A Stampede of Soul
Rocky Mountain Rhythm Kings members Linda Ensign, Bill Rossiter, Frank Talley, Terry Siess, John Goodrich, Don Snow and Karla West perform for a crowd at Snappy Sports Senter in Kalispell. - Lido Vizzutti/Flathead Beacon
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Kitchen Guy: The Basics of Basil
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As I write this, the growing season is fast coming to an end and so I have to harvest and use the bounty of my garden – tomatoes, peppers and herbs. My favorite herb is basil. I like it so much that I bought one of those indoor herb garden thingamajigs so that I could grow it all year long.
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Dawn Duane Evans’ calendar out of the ordinary
Poking Fun at the Barbie World
It's almost an irreverent admiration Dawn "Duane" Evans has for the Barbies in her hand. - Julius Macker/Flathead Beacon
When Dawn Duane Evans started buying Barbie dolls at garage sales, she planned on planting a “Barbie garden.” She had no idea that once she picked up the plastic princess, she wouldn’t be able to put her down.
Or would she?
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Or would she?
Flathead Quilters' Guild 27th Annual Show
Quilters Present Optical Illusions
Nancy Gilliland created "Elusive Koi," showing in the Flathead Quilters' Guild 27th Annual Show, Optical Illusions, Sept. 26-28, 2008. --Becky Lomax, for the Beacon
When Elaine White was a child, she'd tag along with her mother to hang out at church with the quilting ladies. "I'd sit under the quilt frame and watch the designs take shape from underneath," she recalls.
Years later, White found herself as co-chair for the 2008 Flathead Quilters Guild's annual show at the Flathead County Fairgrounds in Kalispell. The Whitefish quilter, along with Barb Penner of Columbia Falls, corralled 260 quilts for the show—many woven around their theme of optical illusions.
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Years later, White found herself as co-chair for the 2008 Flathead Quilters Guild's annual show at the Flathead County Fairgrounds in Kalispell. The Whitefish quilter, along with Barb Penner of Columbia Falls, corralled 260 quilts for the show—many woven around their theme of optical illusions.
Chef Jim Gray
Kitchen Guy: Quick! Bread
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I am a confessed carbohydrate addict – “carboholic,” if you will. I can’t get enough bread, cake, rolls, doughnuts, crackers, pretzels – if it’s made with flour, I like it.
In addition to cooking, I love to bake. But when it comes to bread, sometimes I just don’t have the patience that yeast breads demand.
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In addition to cooking, I love to bake. But when it comes to bread, sometimes I just don’t have the patience that yeast breads demand.
FVCC student wins Miss Montana U.S.A.
From Vaughn to Vegas: A Small-Town Beauty Queen
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Misti Vogt, 2009 Miss Montana USA. - Contribued photo by Dale Crockett |
On an autumn day 10 years ago, long before she was crowned Miss Montana U.S.A. 2009, Misti Vogt approached a deer she had just shot and recalled a popular children’s movie.
“I shot Bambi,” Vogt remembers thinking. “And then I had to gut it.”
Growing up in the small Montana town of Vaughn as a country girl wearing Wranglers and plaid, Vogt, who now lives in Kalispell, never envisioned she would be preparing to stand in a swimsuit on national television representing Montana as the state’s top beauty queen. But that’s exactly what she’ll be doing on April 19 in Las Vegas at the 2009 Miss U.S.A. beauty pageant, which will be aired on NBC. Vogt won the Miss Montana U.S.A. competition on Sept. 7 in Missoula.
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“I shot Bambi,” Vogt remembers thinking. “And then I had to gut it.”
Growing up in the small Montana town of Vaughn as a country girl wearing Wranglers and plaid, Vogt, who now lives in Kalispell, never envisioned she would be preparing to stand in a swimsuit on national television representing Montana as the state’s top beauty queen. But that’s exactly what she’ll be doing on April 19 in Las Vegas at the 2009 Miss U.S.A. beauty pageant, which will be aired on NBC. Vogt won the Miss Montana U.S.A. competition on Sept. 7 in Missoula.
