By Jule Banville
Montana-made Audio
After Nancy Reece Jones' mom died, she realized she needed to talk more about death, about how to have a good one, about how to be kind to others who also need to talk. Maybe all of us should say...
What makes a person screw up enough courage to try open mic night at a brewery, where people are there mostly to drink beer and not hear you sing? You might be surprised and even impressed with what expert pint-pourer...
The sign to Pray, Barbara Walker in the old post office and Madge Walker, one of its former, glorious postmasters. Barbara Walker owns a town in Paradise Valley, Montana, just north of the only year-round entrance to Yellowstone National Park. For...
In the backcountry of Glacier National Park, two seasoned trail-crew workers watched a couple of cute, fuzzy cubs cross their path. "And then you think, uh oh, where's mom at?" Jon Bentzel and Micah Nelson tell producer Charlie Ebbers what...
As it turns out, there's a difference between Canadians and Americans and its name is hockey. Down here, we don't worship at the temple of Don Cherry. Anna Cole, a real-life Canadian, finds out why and other things, including whether or...
When the pilot of a plane saw a fireball explode on Emigrant Peak, about 15 miles north of Yellowstone National Park, the dispatcher called out for another plane that was supposed to be on that flight path. Fido 15! Fido...
When Erwin Byrnes died, it was not exactly sad. That's because his wife of 63 years and his family were ready when he picked the day and time to open the valve of his feeding tube and ingest the right...
David Poole woke up in the snow in Colorado, his lower half numb, and has been working since then to get back to his life outdoors near home: Townsend, Montana. It's the long story of the episode by independent producer...
Ruth Eddy produced both of the stories featured in Episode 5. “I made you a mixtape!” Even though Hana Zimorino started dating the guy Mikki Lunda had been living with for three years, Hana thought, really? They needed to start a...
Jacob and Ben Cronin are brothers with parents who think God can show the path to the good life, which turns out to be the one straight people are on. Their stories about coming out show it's a touch more...
“Your grandmother’s lice got going real good, so I took her down to the river when it got to be 30 below, chopped a hole in the ice and put her in.” There’s more where that came from in Lacy...
"Where we goin' now, boss?" Follow Colin May and a couple of charismatic researchers to Glacier National Park, where a study about habituated goats all mostly ties back to human urine. The short story in this episode is a sound portrait...
Parenting, man. It’s complicated. “Critters, Blobs and Swan Dives” gets at how parents think about their kids and how their thinking evolves and changes as a baby becomes a person. Also in this episode, “Running Through Heartbreak,” about a Missoula woman...
1-2-3-4-5. You still gonna eat that? Here’s a fun story by Ruth Eddy about people who will and why and the science that says it’s OK.
Mary Hickman is a caroling institution outside the Orange Street Food Farm in Missoula. When this longtime Salvation Army bell-ringer was reassigned to a different store, people missed her. Her ...
Tyler Knott Gregson of Helena starts every day the same way. He gets out of bed, sits down at his kitchen table and pounds out a poem on an old ...
David "Madman" Poole earned his nickname in high school in Townsend, Montana. It had even more meaning after he woke up nearly buried in snow following a skiing accident when he was working at Copper Mountain in Colorado. Poole was...
