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~Past Events~
2022 Museum Speaker Schedule: view or download below
Saturday March 26 at 3 PM Christine Brown: “Meanwhile Back at the Ranch”
Saturday April 30 at 3 PM Kirby Lambert: “History of Montana in 101 Objects”
Saturday June 4 at 10 AM Kelly Hanna: “Maybe True Homesteading Stories Told by My Whiskey-Chugging Grandma”
Saturday August 6 at 3 PM Christine Brown: “All the Sign Text That Isn’t Fit to Print”
Saturday October 1 at 3 PM Lee Silliman: "Glacier National Park: Its Early History"
Saturday October 29 at 3 PM: Ellen Baumler "A Ghostly Gathering"
All presentations are free and open to the public. Refreshments will be provided.
A Ghostly Gathering
Saturday October 29 at 3 PM
History and the supernatural are the canvas for this program that intertwines the past with the present. Historian, storyteller, and award-winning author Ellen Baumler weaves a ghostly web in a thought-provoking journey to Montana's most spirited places. Basing her true stories on firsthand accounts, personal interviews, and historic records, her well-researched tales have scared and delighted audiences of all ages. Haunted places include hotels, houses, cemeteries, mines, and historic landscapes across Montana. With a ghostly twist on history, Baumler captures Montana's cultural heritage and brings the state's supernatural past to life.
Ellen earned her Ph.D. from the University of Kansas in English, Classics, and History. She was the Montana Historical Society's interpretive historian from 1992 until her retirement in 2018 and is the author of numerous books and dozens of articles on diverse topics. Her stories of the supernatural have been collected in five books. This program offers a spooky sampling of tales that enrich the local landscape and beautifully embellish the heritage that is important to all places.
Saturday October 29 at 3 PM
History and the supernatural are the canvas for this program that intertwines the past with the present. Historian, storyteller, and award-winning author Ellen Baumler weaves a ghostly web in a thought-provoking journey to Montana's most spirited places. Basing her true stories on firsthand accounts, personal interviews, and historic records, her well-researched tales have scared and delighted audiences of all ages. Haunted places include hotels, houses, cemeteries, mines, and historic landscapes across Montana. With a ghostly twist on history, Baumler captures Montana's cultural heritage and brings the state's supernatural past to life.
Ellen earned her Ph.D. from the University of Kansas in English, Classics, and History. She was the Montana Historical Society's interpretive historian from 1992 until her retirement in 2018 and is the author of numerous books and dozens of articles on diverse topics. Her stories of the supernatural have been collected in five books. This program offers a spooky sampling of tales that enrich the local landscape and beautifully embellish the heritage that is important to all places.
Glacier National Park: Its Early History
Saturday October 1 at 3 PM
This illustrated lecture by collector Lee Silliman of Missoula will investigate the story of Montana's Glacier National Park from Native American days to 1940. It compliments Silliman's exhibit of early Glacier memorabilia such as old tourist album lithographs, original black and white photos, and vintage promotional advertisements that will be on display at the museum from October through next February.
The talk begins by discussing how Blackfeet, Kootenai, and other tribes utilized the natural resources of the park for millennia. Next, important individuals in the establishment of the park will be introduced, such as George Bird Grinnell, James Willard Schultz, and Louis Warren Hill. The images of four photographers who recorded Glacier's wonders for wider audiences will be shown next, namely T.J. Hileman, Fred Kiser, Roland reed, and George Grant. Following these photographs, paintings of Glacier artists such as John Frey, Charles Russel, and Winold Reiss will show. The talk concludes with discussion of the hotels and chalets, construction of the Going-to-the-Sun Road, horseback trips into the backcountry, and finally, "Then & Now" images showing dramatic glacial shrinkage of the past century. All of these topics served the early twentieth century patriotic movement to "See America First."
Saturday October 1 at 3 PM
This illustrated lecture by collector Lee Silliman of Missoula will investigate the story of Montana's Glacier National Park from Native American days to 1940. It compliments Silliman's exhibit of early Glacier memorabilia such as old tourist album lithographs, original black and white photos, and vintage promotional advertisements that will be on display at the museum from October through next February.
The talk begins by discussing how Blackfeet, Kootenai, and other tribes utilized the natural resources of the park for millennia. Next, important individuals in the establishment of the park will be introduced, such as George Bird Grinnell, James Willard Schultz, and Louis Warren Hill. The images of four photographers who recorded Glacier's wonders for wider audiences will be shown next, namely T.J. Hileman, Fred Kiser, Roland reed, and George Grant. Following these photographs, paintings of Glacier artists such as John Frey, Charles Russel, and Winold Reiss will show. The talk concludes with discussion of the hotels and chalets, construction of the Going-to-the-Sun Road, horseback trips into the backcountry, and finally, "Then & Now" images showing dramatic glacial shrinkage of the past century. All of these topics served the early twentieth century patriotic movement to "See America First."
Brands of Montana (presentation)
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About the Speaker:
Zoe Ann Stoltz- Reference Historian at the MT Historical Society (MHS) After growing up in eastern Montana and raising three daughters in the northwestern corner of the state, Zoe Ann pursued her dream of becoming a Public Historian. To this end, she graduated from Mount Holyoke College in MA, and earned her Master’s in History from the University of Montana. She has been the MHS Reference Historian for over a decade. Her current projects include introducing students to the thrills of research, as well as a study of the MHS Cookbook Collection, Montana Foodways, and Montana Livestock Brand Histories. Vertical Divider
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Presentation Summary:
We find them everywhere – on belts, mugs, quilts, and cattle! While part of Montana’s culture, livestock brands also play a vital part of Montana’s history. Dating back to 1873, Montana Livestock Brand Records reveal information on individual brand owners. They also demonstrate historical trends: Mining, cattle drives, homesteading and more. Zoe Ann will discuss the history of Montana brands, the futility in asking which was first, and the treasure trove of information documented by the Montana Livestock Brand Records. What stories are behind your brand? |
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406-224-5106
5 North Main St. Clancy, MT 59634
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