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Vic’s Pics This week Vicki picked “THE BOOK OF CAIN” by Herb Chapman. Riveting, taut and suspenseful, this masterfully crafted tale of criminal pathology and psychological error debuts the literary talent of Herb Chapman who ingeniously lays bare both the soul of a criminal and the mind of his pursuer. The criminal is Isaac Drum. A serial killer, Drum has routinely poisoned his victims with nonlethal doses of strychnine to torture them with organism-like convulsions before he ends their lives. Drum’s nemesis, the man who has feverishly pursued...
Certainly of all the American wars, the worst was the Civil War which pitted American against American and there was an enormous amount of blood shed on our own land. After that war many Confederates came to Montana to start a new life in the west. Their graves and those of Union soldiers were some of the first graves tended to on Decoration Day in Montana. That war was not that long ago. When the Blackwood family came to ranch on Clear Creek, they had one of their former slaves with them. He was free but did not want to leave the family he...
Dale Morey was born and raised in the tiny northeastern Montana town of Opheim. You would think that would be about as far away from the United States military as one could get but there was the huge Glasgow Air Force Base in operation then so things military were certainly known to Dale. "I started my career in the Navy in 1969," said Dale. "It was because of the draft. When I graduated in 1969 I went harvesting in the south with a friend. When I got home there were several letters from the...
I love Christmas music of all kinds. I am playing it in the car as I drive down the highway to Big Sandy. I am playing it in my living room on Friday and Saturday during happy hour and I am listening eagerly to hear it being played around town. I love the old hymns maybe the best and I love it when they are sung by old choirs from England and sung accompanied by the pipe organ and sound crisp, and cold and let so very beautiful. They remind me of when I had a cabin up Alkali Springs on Beaver Creek. I used to love to spend Christmas at that cab...
Katie Hanson is fully a Big Sandy resident, having been born and raised here and graduated from Big Sandy High School. Katie's parents are Curt Owen and Laura Owen and her in-laws are Paul and Lorrie Hanson. Katie married C. J. Hanson. They have a four month old boy named Jordan. Katie got her elementary education four year degree from MSU Northern in Havre and did her practice teaching with Mrs. Moore and her third grade class. This year Katie is responsible for nine first graders and things...
It is time to start thinking about the 2016 Christmas Stroll. It will be held on Saturday, December 3 which is just around the corner. Stroll manager Marlys Edmonds said that there are many different activities planned for this year as well as many exciting contests to be entered. This year the Big Sandy Chamber of Commerce, who puts on the Stroll, turned to face book to choose a theme for the Stroll. The Chamber offered a hundred dollars in chamber bucks for the winning choice. Marlys said there were many great choices but the chamber chose “C...
When Alan and Lorrie Merrill visited the ruins of Pompeii in Italy, little did they know what it would stir up at home when they brought their grandson Henry a book about Pompey and Mount Vesuvius erupting and destroying that area. Henry, who has always been interested in natural disasters and ruins, almost wore the book out looking at its pages over and over again. Henry is the son of Mary and Nathan Merrill. He is a five year old very active little boy with a great imagination and gift of...
It is the beginning of the month and since it is November, a Thanksgiving recipe would be in order but you know most of my Thanksgiving recipes anyway so how about a new way to cook an old favorite, Shepherd’s Pie. The meat in the Shepherd’s pie can be ground up lamb but I have always used a hamburger mixture. It seems more like me. To make a Shepherd’s pie you need to do three separate things. First, you need to get some good root vegetables cooked. Then you need to get your meat mixture prepared and then you need to cook enough mashed potat...
It certainly won't be the same at the Senior Citizen's Center after October 31 as that will be the last day that Linda Rutledge will be in charge of the center. Karma Hale will be taking Linda's place on November 1. Linda is a long term cook at the Senior Center. She started cooking for the Center in 2004. Before that she cooked for the hospital. She has always liked to cook as do her sisters and mother. There is no doubt of Linda's favorite food. It is also the favorite food of her children...
Believe it or not this is going to turn into a ghost story but first lots and lots of background. Long have I been interested in the exploits of Kid Curry (Harvey Logan) and his brothers in the Little Rockies. No part of the story is more interesting than the story about the death of Jim Winters and his partner Abraham Gill after taking over a ranch that the Logan Brothers thought belonged to them. I first got wind of this story in a small book written about the Little Rockies by Gladys Costello. Called “The Golden Era of the Little R...
Calista Worrall is heading up the Big Sandy fifth Grade of some 13 students this year. This is her first year in Big Sandy although she has taught in Fort Benton and Box Elder. Calista is from Missouri and got her training from Missouri Southern State College in Elementary Education. It was there she met her husband who is from Loma, so it was off to Montana and off to a new life. Before teaching this year at Big Sandy, Calista taught for four years in Box Elder and was an RTI aide in Fort...
If you have written history as long as I have, you would find it very interesting, like I do, that events change on whims from who knows where. Little tiny and seemingly events of no consequence cause major events to happen years later. This is a story of just how that happened in Montana maybe a dozen years ago. But the story would not have happened at all if World War 2 had not happened. Or if Grandpa Lucke’s favorite magazine wasn’t “Field and Stream” or if Bee Lucke hadn’t introduce...
If you believe in ghosts, you probably believe there are many different kinds of ghosts. When I was a boy and we were using the old log Johnson House as a fishing cabin, we knew that we had a ghost around the house that protected us when we needed protecting. The Johnson House was a wonderful, large four bedroom log building that was built on two cliffs of Clear Creek. I don’t know if it started out being built on two cliffs. I can’t imagine so but by the time we stayed there one fifty foot cliff had Clear Creek cutting into it every day. The...
No one has ever accused Doug Giebel of not having a good imagination. He has been known to build castles in the sky for years. When the new library was just a dream, Doug had dreamed large and passed on his ideas to his community. The library ideas did not work out for Doug as he would have wished, but that did not stop him. He kept on dreaming of those castles in the sky. For the last year or more now he has been very busy putting foundations under them. As you read his story about converting...
This is the first year that Margaret Fasteson has taught sixth grade at the Big Sandy Elementary School. Margaret and her husband hail from the Spokane area. Several years ago a friend convinced them to come to the Geraldine area where Margaret taught for two years. Bob Quinn hired Margaret's husband to be a part of his farming operation and Margaret got a job here in Big Sandy. Margaret does not run her sixth grade class like others. Sometimes she just can't as she has the largest class in the...
My mother was a good cook. She loved to bake. Her specialties in baking were cookies and pies. Her crusts were to die for and her huckleberry or juneberry pies around the holidays were wonderful to say the least. Every Sunday she would cook a roast or fry a chicken but mostly her fried chicken was cooked when we went picnicking to Glacier National Park or Beaver Creek Park. With the fried chicken she would always have deviled eggs, potato salad and her famous tuna or shrimp and pasta salad which all in her family cook to this day in honor of...
This is National Fire Prevention Week and we are celebrating it in "The Mountaineer" this issue. Fire prevention goes back a long, long way with early day volunteer firemen going around in wagons that would hold many gallons of water and that were manned by four or six horses. Needless to say that not a lot of fires were put out unless the fire was right next to the fire department. If those old fire wagons had to go a mile, chances were the fire would have consumed whatever building they were...
"The Mountaineer" has written stories about Shersteen Cline in the last few years. She played volleyball like nobodies business at Montana Tech for a four year college career. And, she was so good at what she did, that she got many scholarships to boot. But, all the time Cline was playing award winning volleyball for Montana Tech she was learning. She knew she needed a career. Volleyball was not going to last forever, maybe teaching and coaching would. Shersteen Cline is well known in the Big...
For a town the size of Big Sandy, it is as important to have as many services as the town can possibly hold. To have a medical center, a grocery store, several cafes and a bakery/deli and even Big Sandy Activities is important, not to mention very high quality schools. So, a few years ago when a new pharmacy came to Big Sandy, it was just the frosting on the cake. All of a sudden there was another medical presence in Big Sandy and when you consider that the average person sees his or her doctor...
I have a small turkey in the freezer and have decided to cook it this weekend. Having said that, now I have to figure out how to cook it. These days it is not nearly as easy to cook a turkey as it used to be. There are several answers to this dilemma. One answer is to invite someone over to help cook the turkey. The other answer is not to cook all that used to go with having a turkey dinner. If I have someone over to help cook, I am going to lean on them to cook the mashed potatoes, make a vegetable and make gravy. I am going to cook the turkey...
Hold on to your hats partners, for the 61st Annual Chili Feed is right around the corner. It will be held on Friday, October 7, 2016. Chili with all the fixings will start to be served around 4 p.m. on the Friday of the Pioneers home game against Valier. Hamburger for the chili has been donated by the IX ranch and the firemen themselves are responsible for some of the best chili ever served north of the Rio Grande! This is a mega fundraiser for Big Sandy and has been responsible for keeping the Volunteer Fire Department’s equipment better t...
To coin an old phrase, “There is trouble in River City”. Due to that trouble Alan Merrill and some Farmer’s Union representatives have just come back from Washington D.C. While there they presented Senators and Representatives with four top issues. They were adequate farm and food support, Trans-Pacific Partnership, Renewable fuel standard and Corporate Consolidation in Agriculture. More about them later, but what led to that particular Fly-In is a disaster brewing in the agriculture right here at home. Merrill said that cattle prices have...
Enter Lady Macbeth with a taper. "Lo you, here she comes! This is her very guise, and upon my life, fast asleep. Observe her: stand close." Doct. "How came she by that light?" Gent. "Why it stood by her: she has light by her continually: tis her command." Doct. "You see her eyes are open." Gent. "Ay, but their sense is shut." Doct. "What is it she does now? Look how she rubs her hands." Gent. "It is an accustomed action with her to seem thus washing her hands. I have known her continue in this...
Fall foliage is early this year. I went to Glacier National Park last weekend and saw wonderful fall foliage way before October 1 which is very early. It also looked as if Glacier National Park officials are keeping Going-To-The-Sun Road open longer and the foliage up there was spectacular to say the least although when we got to the top of Logan Pass the temperature was about 38 in the middle of the day and there was a very cold wind blowing in from the east. Made for not staying out of the car long at the top. I have not mentioned going in...
October birthdays are a long list. They include Floyd Terry. Allan Pearson, Cindy DesRosier, Doug Grubb, Shirley Pearson, Marlys Bahnmiller, Beverly Williams, John Brown, Marlys Edmonds, Ronald Christensen. Donald Christensen, Marilyn Swanson, Rachel Baumgarn, Pam Jung, Pam Gasvoda, Kandi Marion, Linda Schwarzbach, David Louvar, Nancy Jappe and Paula Amsbaugh. Several Sashays around the ball room floor while Lawrence Welk’s champagne bubbles cloud the room for Norm and Karen Reinertson, Doug and Nora Grubb, Arland and Pam Gasvoda, Harry and Pam...
