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Category: Montana Rural Life
Articles, and blog post about Montana rural life. Types of entertainment, games, foods, events, activities, gardening, and much more.
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In March 1951, the radio drama The Man Called X sent its globe-trotting intelligence agent, Ken Thurston, somewhere he didn’t usually go: Montana. “Cargo Confidant” aired March 10, 1951, with Herbert Marshall in his familiar role as Thurston. The episode opens with a plane going down in the California desert, carrying Mexican nationals attempting to…
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Before Pert Kelton became a Broadway actress, a Hollywood performer, a radio favorite, and the original Alice Kramden, she was a Montana girl. And if you know much about Montana, you know we have never been particularly impressed by people who think they’re important just because somebody put their name on a marquee. Pert Kelton…
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Hollywood marketed Myrna Loy as the sophisticated, witty, and seemingly perfect on-screen wife. Millions of moviegoers knew her as Nora Charles, the glamorous and quick-witted wife of detective Nick Charles in The Thin Man movies. But there was another Myrna Loy. She was a woman who cared deeply about human rights, civil rights, international cooperation,…
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The Yellowstone River and its tributaries, Sunday Creek and the Tongue River, were the lifeblood of this raw, expansive landscape of rolling short prairie grass, dramatic clay badlands, and sagebrush plains. Sitting Bull’s oral family history states he was born along the Yellowstone River just south of present-day Miles City. Antony Ellis, writer and Producer…
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Our first featured radio show featuring Montana is “The Henderson Matter”, from the Yours Truly Johnny Dollar old-time radio show. This episode is set in a fictional town called Culver, Montana, just north of Great Falls. John Dawson, a pen name for the Hollywood scriptwriter E. Jack Neuman, wrote the episode. Starring Bob Bailey as…
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Puzzles are a “modifiable lifestyle factor” that helps to preserve cognitive function in older individuals. Word puzzles create more focused and sustained attention, speed up information processing, and activate your working memory. “The more types of puzzles you solve and the more brain exercises you do, you form new synapses, which are the connections between…
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My rating: 3 of 5 stars I found this book to be very easy to follow when beginning to understand cryptocurrency. Though much of the information has changed it is one that I keep on my bookshelf so I can easily refer back to it and make connections to this fast-moving industry easier. I highly…
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