Events

February 2025

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Montana’s Historic Chinese Communities – Mark Johnson
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
In 1870, Chinese residents made up more than 10% of Montana’s population. Yet this population, so crucial to Montana’s history, remains underrepresented in historical accounts. Using documents left by Chinese pioneers—translated and interpreted for the first time—Mark Johnson recovers the stories of Montana’s Chinese p , ...
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Harlem Public Library Book Club
4:00 pm
This book club, hosted by the Harlem Public Library, meets Mondays at 4:00-5:00 P.M. September through April. The book club meets at the Harlem Public Library (37 1st Ave SE, Harlem, Montana). To learn more about joining and participating, please contact Colleen Brommer at (406) 353-2712 or visit their Facebook page. , ...
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Montana’s Historic Chinese Communities with Mark Johnson
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
In 1870, Chinese residents made up more than 10% of Montana’s population. Yet this population, so crucial to Montana’s history, remains underrepresented in historical accounts. Using documents left by Chinese pioneers—translated and interpreted for the first time—Mark Johnson recovers the stories of Montana’s Chinese p , ...
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Bigfoot in the Big Sky with Bridger Lutz
5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
In the forest primeval … we are not alone. From the rocky shores of the Pacific Northwest to the ancient and equally arcane woodlands of Appalachia, rumors of a large bipedal creature roaming the dark edges of the American imagination existed long before Europeans reached the continent. Despite countless photographs, i , ...
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Our Belongings: Sqelix ‘Salish’ Art & Toolmaking – Aspen & Cameron Decker
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
During the course of Our Belongings : Sqelixʷ ‘Salish’ Art and Toolmaking Aspen and Cameron Decker speak about the process of making Salish art and tools, the issues that it brings up in regards to making the objects (environment, sustainability, culture), and what that reveals about the place we are in as Contemporary , ...
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Harlem Public Library Book Club
4:00 pm
This book club, hosted by the Harlem Public Library, meets Mondays at 4:00-5:00 P.M. September through April. The book club meets at the Harlem Public Library (37 1st Ave SE, Harlem, Montana). To learn more about joining and participating, please contact Colleen Brommer at (406) 353-2712 or visit their Facebook page. , ...
Storytelling: The Power to Connect Our World with Lailani Upham
6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Using her experience working on the documentary film projects The Sixty-Four Flood and The Blackfeet Flood, Lailani Upham leads participants through a discussion on the creative and healing process of storytelling. In the films, survivors on the Blackfeet Reservation told firsthand, historical accounts nearly 50 years , ...
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Beneath the Medicine Line: a Northern Montana History Before 1889
6:00 am - 7:30 pm
Journey back in time to discover some of Montana’s lesser-known tales and the people who made them possible. Though often overlooked in the retelling of our state’s history, Montana’s Northern frontier is a place rich with stories and a colorful cast of characters to go along with them. From people navigating fast-chan , ...
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National History Day in Montana – Miles Community College
National History Day in Montana is a co-curricular academic program for students in grades  6-12 to engage in original historical research around an annual theme. This year’s theme is Rights and Responsibilities in History Students present their findings as documentaries, exhibit boards, papers, performances, and websi , ...
National History Day in Montana – Flathead Valley Community College
National History Day in Montana is a co-curricular academic program for students in grades 6-12 to engage in original historical research around an annual theme. This year’s theme is Rights and Responsibilities in History. Students present their findings as documentaries, exhibit boards, papers, performances, and websi , ...
Great Falls Book Club
10:00 am - 11:00 am
This book club, hosted at the Great Falls Public Library, is held the second Saturday of each month at 10:00am. The book club is themed around Montana, either Montana authors or books about Montana. To learn more about joining and participating, please contact Debbie Stewart at 406-453-0349. , ...
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Harlem Public Library Book Club
4:00 pm
This book club, hosted by the Harlem Public Library, meets Mondays at 4:00-5:00 P.M. September through April. The book club meets at the Harlem Public Library (37 1st Ave SE, Harlem, Montana). To learn more about joining and participating, please contact Colleen Brommer at (406) 353-2712 or visit their Facebook page. , ...
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Darby Community Public Library Book Club
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
This book club, hosted by the Darby Community Public Library, meets every other month in 2025: February, April, June, August, October December, on the second Thursday of the month from 4:30 to 6:00pm The book club meets in the conference room at the Darby Community Public Library (101 South Marshall Street, Darby, MT). , ...
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Montana Stories and How They Shape Our Lives – Sally Thompson
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
In this 90-minute hands-on workshop, facilitator Sally Thompson shares her treasure trove of primary documents from Montana history to facilitate more nuanced and respectful understandings than are commonly held. We will explore short historical narratives, artwork, and maps, from places we know, with an eye toward und , ...
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Harlem Public Library Book Club
4:00 pm
This book club, hosted by the Harlem Public Library, meets Mondays at 4:00-5:00 P.M. September through April. The book club meets at the Harlem Public Library (37 1st Ave SE, Harlem, Montana). To learn more about joining and participating, please contact Colleen Brommer at (406) 353-2712 or visit their Facebook page. , ...
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Glendive River City Readers Book Club
4:00 pm
Location: The Glendive Public Library, 200 S. Kendrick Ave, Glendive, MT 59330 Dates/times: Third Tuesday of the month. This book club has been active for over 30 years and meets at the Glendive Public Library on the third Tuesday of each month. To learn more about joining and participating, please contact Twylla McPhe , ...
Kid Gloves and Brass Knuckles: The Life of Nancy Cooper Russell – Mary Jane Bradbury
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Against the backdrop of the social and political reform of the early 1900s, Nancy Cooper Russell was a woman ahead of her time. A self-taught business woman with the ability to take charge, Nancy helped Charles M. Russell become the highest paid living artist of his time. Art historians consistently give her credit for , ...
Conrad Public Library Book Club
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
This book club, hosted by the Conrad Public Library, Third Tuesday of each month at 7:00-8:30 pm. The book club meets at the Conrad Public Library (15 4th Ave SW, Conrad, MT 59425). To learn more about joining and participating, please contact the Tiffany Christensen (406)271-5751 or visit their Facebook page. , ...
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Thompson Falls Book Club 2025
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
The Thompson Falls Public Library Book Club meets at 4:00 p.m., on the third Friday of each month (except December). For more information contact Crystal Buchanan at (406) 827-3547. To learn more visit thompsonfallspubliclibrary.org. , ...
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Hush of the Land: Stories from the Bob Marshall Wilderness with Eva-Maria Maggi & Arnold “Smoke” Elser
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
In Hush of the Land: Stories from the Bob Marshall Wilderness, Arnold ‘Smoke’ Elser and Eva-Maria Maggi take the audience on a journey with horses and mules deep into the mountains of Western Montana. This engaging, hands-on campfire storytelling event is based on the inspiring memoir Hush of the Land, which chronicles , ...
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Harlem Public Library Book Club
4:00 pm
This book club, hosted by the Harlem Public Library, meets Mondays at 4:00-5:00 P.M. September through April. The book club meets at the Harlem Public Library (37 1st Ave SE, Harlem, Montana). To learn more about joining and participating, please contact Colleen Brommer at (406) 353-2712 or visit their Facebook page. , ...
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Bigfoot in the Big Sky with Bridger Lutz
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
In the forest primeval … we are not alone. From the rocky shores of the Pacific Northwest to the ancient and equally arcane woodlands of Appalachia, rumors of a large bipedal creature roaming the dark edges of the American imagination existed long before Europeans reached the continent. Despite countless photographs, i , ...
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Montana’s Poet Laureate – Chris La Tray
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Métis storyteller and Little Shell Chippewa member Chris La Tray approaches the practice of poetry the same as he does the spiritual life of an Anishinaabe person: which is to say, if one lives an Anishinaabe life, with particular attention to the seven guiding principles of the Seven Grandfather teachings – Humility, , ...
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Queen Elizabeth I Time Travels to Montana – Leslie VanStavern Millar
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Artist Leslie Van Stavern Millar III dresses in period costume and brings a selection of her three-dimensional, sci-fi alternative history art works, the Montana Peepshow Story Boxes, depicting time travel episodes of Queen Elizabeth I. She leads an entertaining and thought-provoking discussion, telling stories of Mont , ...
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