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GIVING A VOICE

to Northwest Montana History

12th annual historic speaker series begins at Museum at Central School on Jan. 12

By MOLLY PRIDDY of the Beacon The panel will include Sylvia Murphy, doorsman Blake
TBob O’Neil, Rand Robbin, Peter Larson Passmore will give his
he Museum at Central School in and Sheryl Lautherback, who will all dis-
presentation, “Climb

Kalispell is dedicated to preserving cuss their history in the Flathead and the
Glacier Park.” Passmore
has written three guidebooks
Northwest Montana’s rich history, memories they’ve earned along the way.
on the climbing opportunities in
often portrayed through its well-known On Jan. 26, local author and avid out-
Glacier National Park, and will talk exhibits. But for the last 12 years, the
about those books as well as his expe- dawning of the New Year has meant it’s
riences and adventures in the Crown of time for a diferent kind of historical per-
the Continent.
spective.
The third presentation in the series, Each January and February, starting

“A Black Homesteader’s Struggle,” will in 2002, local experts and storytellers
take place on Feb. 9. Poet and storyteller gather at the museum every other Sun-
Philip Burgess will use his wordsmith- day to give presentations on various areas
ing skills to create a picture of what it of historical note during the annual John
was like for an African-American fam- White Speaker Series.
ily settling in the Missouri River Valley, “Our mission is all about preserving
where they sought refuge from the vio- and presenting Northwest Montana his-
lent racism of the post-Civil War south.
tory,” museum director Gil Jordan said.
And on Feb. 23, the inal presentation “This is just another way we’ve found to
in the series will be “Sons of Sherifs,” an disseminate this history in a diferent
apt name for a discussion featuring three form than just exhibits.”
sons of former Flathead County sherifs, Kicking of the 12th annual speaker se-
including retired attorney Ty Robertson, ries on Jan. 12 will be a panel of long-time
96, whose father, Cal Robinson Sr. was Flathead Valley residents in the “Memo-
sherif in the 1930s and 1940s; Pat Walsh, ries of Flathead History” presentation.

whose father Dick Walsh took the sher- It’s the irst time the series has included a
if job after Robinson in 1947; and Larry
multiple-speaker event, Jordan said.
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