Entertainers include cowboy poet, singer, author, Ken Overcast. Ken is the author of the official “Montana Lullaby”. Ken’s granddaughter Faith Halingstad will perform with grandpa on the fiddle. Faith is only nine years old and has already won fiddle contests. Scott Kirby will combine his piano playing with his art work with “Main Street Souvenirs”. He will paint pictures, form musical phrases, and connect us with our past. We will learn how author Richard S. Wheeler became an author of over 60 novels of the west after the age of forty. He is the winner of five Spur Awards and the recipient of the Owen Wister Award for lifetime achievement in the literature of the American West.

Pat Hagan has worked for the last 22 summers as a Seasonal Naturalist in Glacier National Park. Through his book “Seasonal Disorder” he will tell us what it is like among the wild creatures and wild lands of the park that constantly surprise and always inspire us. Katey Bellville will entertain us with her beautiful voice. She has been singing since the age of five. She will entertain you with bluegrass, salsa, rock, folk and a little reggae. Music is in her bones. She yodels too. Dennis Seglem from the Glacier County Historical Museum will be telling us about the history of mining in Glacier County and other interesting things about our huge area. Colleen Ferries has been an avid Laura Ingalls Wilder fan most of her life---since she was ten. Colleen’s comprehensive collection of antiques and samples of Little House items will significantly add to her presentation on Laura Ingalls Wilder.

The Humanities of Montana will sponsor two wonderful women from their “Speaker Bureau”. Sue Hart will tell us about “Montana Memoirs—Montana Memories”. Tales of Teddy Blue Abbott, James Willard Schultz, Mary Ronan, Chet Huntley and others. You will relive the homestead years and the boom and bust periods. For her second presentation on Saturday you will be “At Home on the Range: Food as Love in Literature of the Western Frontier”. Sue will tell us how the gift of food meant love in the Frontier Days.Christi M. Smith, researcher and host of “Christi the Wordsmith” radio series will present her program “Eating Our Words”. The program explores the ways in which food appears in our vocabulary and the many terms and expressions that make reference to food and eating. How is someone “worth his salt?”

Tim Joyner will once again join us on stage Friday night as he paints his original, one of a kind picture for us to raffle off. Tim will be at the C.M. Russell Art Auction with his juried piece “Cattle Drive” and Tim has been selected to be a Quick Draw artist this year. Tim is the former art teacher at Cut Bank

Come and join us for two days of fun and entertainment for the whole family. Questions: Call Donna @ 406 336-3253