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“How to Get on a Horse,” by Mel Ruder, Hungry Horse News. Photo courtesy of Mansfield Library, Archives & Special Collections, University of Montana-Missoula. It seems so serendipitous how [...]

Now tell me, what do bagpipes, St. Patrick’s Day, and leadership have to do with each other? Yes, the pipers march in step. Yes, there is a story of St. Patrick chasing the snakes out of Ireland [...]

[Note: The photo, take near the town of Wolf Creek between 1915 and 19219,  the rocky walls of Wolf Creek Canyon and Prickly Pear Creek.  The railroad tracks (still in place) run parallel to the [...]

The sun shone a bit brighter that day. And it reminded me of something else....

"Standing in the room pictured above, not just a bit overwhelmed by the immensity of the body of work, I saw proof of the confluence of two ideas..."

In the vein of how traditional artists teach their art, Wayland had an apprentice called Flibbertigibbet...

"And so, we stitch our lives, the history behind us, and our hopes for the future."

"Or, rather does the crazy quilt's power lie in what has been accomplished stitch by stitch..."

The quilt has become bound by the Seamstress of Time ever more firmly into the country's identity and cultural consciousness.

"The landscape is the product of the divine average.”