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Since 2012, the Montana History Foundation (MHF) has awarded annual grants to projects and organizations that work to preserve and protect the historic legacy of Montana. This year, the foundation reached a new record, giving away the largest amount ever at $134,451 and bringing all-time grant awards to $843,985. "Awarding grants is the most important thing we do every year," said MHF President/CEO Charlene Porsild. "The future of these history projects relies on grant...
Carter County Museum Director Sabre Moore had a busy week bringing a portable planetarium, StarLab, to Ekalaka students. On Tuesday, Moore set the StarLab up for CCHS students. High school math, science and FCS students spent time learning about magnitude, math in space and measuring distances. On Wednesday, Moore spent time with grade school students in the StarLab. They learned about constellations, the phases of the moon, what planets are made of and astronomy and Native...
Alice, daughter of Fred and Eva Townsend, gives more information on the early day family that homesteaded in the Tie Creek area with the home buildings being just one mile west of the Padden Ranch. She wrote: "My dad got itchy feet again and in 1919 started to Canada-you guessed it-in a covered wagon! They landed in Leslieville, British Columbia, Canada. They stayed there two years and then went back to the old ranch in Tie Creek country." After reading about those...
On Monday, Carter County Museum earned a 2019 Platinum Seal of Transparency, the highest level of recognition offered by GuideStar, the world's largest source of nonprofit information. By sharing metrics that highlight progress Carter County Museum is making toward its mission, the organization is helping donors move beyond simplistic ways of nonprofit evaluation such as overhead ratios. "In accordance with our long-held belief in being transparent about our work," said museum...
Shirley Laureen (Rene) Frye LaBree passed away on March 8, 2019 at Holy Rosary Hospital in Miles City, Montana, after a hard-fought battle with cancer. Rene was born in Baker, MT, on January 12, 1947, the second child of Glen Edward Frye and Ethel Marie Arnold Frye. She joined an older brother Richard Alan born June 14, 1945. At an early age the family moved to Canby, California. Glen and his brother Bert went to work in the logging industry to earn money, so that Glen could...
On March 14, 2019, the Carter County Geological Society will host its annual Founder's Day Celebration at Carter County Events Center. Members of the CCGS are invited to bring a potluck dish of either a salad or dessert. Marlene Waterland will provide the main dish of dinner rolls and twice-baked barbecue chicken. Dinner starts at 6 p.m. with a program to follow. In 2018, the Carter County Museum had a record of 5,144 visitors to the museum, including 42% from out-of-state...
Visit Southeast Montana tourism will offer marketing workshops for tourism partners across the region. A tourism partner is a business or non-profit organization that caters to visitors—local, regional, domestic or international. This includes those who promote museums, attractions, food and beverage locations, and lodging facilities but also hunting and fishing guides, outfitters, suppliers and peripheral organizations. Workshops will be held in March 4 in Billings and March 5 in Miles City. Topics include: • Marketing Too...
The 5th Annual Miles City Cowboy Poetry Gathering will be hosted by the Range Riders Museum on Sunday February 24th. Entertainment will kick off at 11:30 am with local talent Angie Dauben and Bob Petermann from Wibaux. They will be performing western and gospel music. A roast beef dinner will be served at noon. The featured performers Margaret Wilhelm, Jarle Kvale, and Jack Owen are scheduled to perform during the Main Show at 1 pm. The event will finish out with an Open Mic...
Ruth Evelyn Benjamin, age 99 of Miles City, passed away peacefully at the TLC Personal Care Home in Miles City. Ruth was born on April 9, 1919 in Ekalaka. She was the daughter of John Frederick and Sarah Bell (Powell) Johnson. She attended grade schools in Ekalaka and graduated from Carter County High School. Following school, she helped her parents out on the family place until she met Wesley James "Jim" Benjamin. Jim and Ruth were married in 1941 in Baker, MT. Over the...
Jeane Koefelda died on December 31, 2018, at Dahl Memorial in Ekalaka, Montana. She was born in Great Falls to Frank and Ruth (Faris) Koefelda on June 12, 1926. Jeane attended Great Falls Public and Catholic schools graduating in 1944 while working at Malmstrom Air Force Base as a clerk in the Base Exchange and transport driver at Gore Air Field. Her father was a lineman for Montana Power Company and was killed while stringing power lines on Central Avenue just 10 days before Social Security took effect. Jeane was the oldest...
The Carter County Museum will be showing two previews of the documentary film "Feek's Vision" on December 19 and 20, 2018 at 6 p.m. This footage will air during the National Finals Rodeo and the museum's showing in Ekalaka will give those who do not have a chance to get to Vegas an exclusive preview of the film. Chandler Earl "Feek" Tooke moved to Ekalaka in 1913 and began raising and training horses on the family ranch. He has been hailed as the "Henry Ford of the bucking hor...
This #GivingTuesday, Carter County Geological Society will celebrate giving by supporting the Carter County Museum's exhibitions, educational outreach programming and the Keep Collections Local Campaign for Expansion. Since 2012, the museum has undergone a revitalization effort, which quadrupled attendance from 1,000 to 4,895 visitors in 2017 as well as tripled yearly income. The museum seeks to continue that trend and improve its collections stewardship. By supporting it on G...
The 2019 Carter County Chamber of Commerce Calendar, "Why Don't You Come to Ekalaka And See Your Friends?" will be available at the Saturday, November 17 Holiday Bazaar in the CCHS gymnasium. These make wonderful Christmas presents for family and friends, or gifts for hunters who harvested game in the area. This year the calendar features an array of historic photos, graciously provided by Carter County Museum. Calendars cost only $12 at the bazaar. If ordering by mail, the...
Carter County Chamber of Commerce's FestiFall seemingly went off without a hitch on Saturday. Somewhere around 70 pumpkins were picked from Mainstreet Market's pumpkin patch, and almost 90 people enjoyed bottomless bowls of chili. Children enjoyed face painting and games provided by the museum, as well as rides on the famous RodeoRigs.com barrel train. After much deliberation, a distinguished panel of judges chose Chris Klarich's beer cheese chili as the first place winner of...
Have you ever looked up at the sky and wondered about what you're looking at? Do you want those questions about the night sky answered? On August 24 and 25 join us for the first ever Carter County Museum Star Party! Hosted in conjunction with Medicine Rocks State Park and Sioux Ranger District, this two evening event will feature stargazing, telescope viewing and digital visualization, as well as exploring how craters are made and experiments with ultraviolet light. The event...
Area military veterans are invited to ride on the veterans float in the Days of ‘85 parade, Sunday, August 12. Those wanting to ride on the float are asked to gather at the Carter County Museum at 10:00 a.m. on Sunday. Once all are aboard, the float will travel to its assigned spot on Highway 323 in preparation for the parade....
This year marked the 6th anniversary of Carter County Museum's Dino Shindig. Numbers at the event continue to grow each year, as 480 people attended the talks and children's activities on Saturday, up from 434 last year. Sixty people took in a history and science program at Medicine Rocks on Sunday. Meanwhile, 61 dig participants worked to remove a femur and collected prehistoric leaves in a Hadrosaur quarry. New events like the sister museum and schoolhouse gallery show on Fr...
In conjunction with the 2018 Carter County Museum Dino Shindig, Montana State Parks will host a science and history gathering at Medicine Rocks State Park on Sunday, July 29, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. The gathering will include: 10 a.m. - Franco Littlelight: “Song of the Dawn Priests: A History of the Crow People” 11 a.m. - Thomas Holtz: “The Geology of Medicine Rocks State Park” 11:30 a.m. - Amy Atwater: “Paleontology and the Mammals of the Fort Union Formation” Noon - Nature Hike with Park Ranger Tom Shoush This program wil...
The hallway clock in Ekalaka Elementary is trapped at 9:46. Made in Minneapolis, Minnesota by the Miller Program Clock Company, it is self-winding and powered by two 1.5 volt dry cells, each roughly the size of a soda can. The upper level of the school is warm and getting warmer as sunlight soaks the empty rooms. Downstairs, the basement is cool and surprisingly bright along the windows. Voices echo. Classrooms seem stretched without desks and chairs. Many are completely...
The Carter County Geological Society will host the Montana Conversations program "Montana UFOs and Extraterrestrials" with Joan Bird on July 12. The program will be at Carter County Museum at 6 p.m. The presentation is free and open to the public; funding for the Montana Conversations program is provided by Humanities Montana through grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Montana's Cultural Trust and private donations. While many UFO sightings can be...
To light the celebration’s fuse, the Belltower Community Hall will be having a potluck on July 3. Beef, provided by the O’Connors, will be on the menu. Activities will included cornhole and horseshoes. On Wednesday come out to the triangle in Ekalaka for Fourth of July festivities starting at 5 p.m. Local businesses will host activities and booths until 8 p.m. Independence Day will be capped off by a fireworks display sponsored by the Carter County Chamber of Commerce and launched by the Ekalaka Volunteer Fire Dep...
Carter County Museum employees visited a friend last Friday when they dug into a plesiosaur buried in the southern part of the county. Even with GPS coordinates, they had difficulty finding the fossil in the tall grass. I know it's here, said Stew Cook, "I can feel it in my bones." The search exhibited just how difficult it is finding a known fossil, let alone discovering a new one, in the 40,000 square miles of Southeastern Montana. Erosion, ice melts and heavy rain can expos...
A funeral service for Donnie Harpster, 75, of Ekalaka, MT was held June 11, at Stevenson Funeral Home in Ekalaka with Pastor Scott Kiehn officiating. Visitation took place one hour prior to the service. Burial followed in Beaver Lodge Cemetery. Donnie passed away Sunday, June 3, 2018. Don Harpster was born July 3, 1942 in Ekalaka, at the Trabert birthing house, to Roscoe and Christina (Martens) Harpster. He joined an older brother Gary. He grew up on Beaver Flat on the Harpste...
The Carter County Museum has so many fossils, they would spill out of the museum's back room like a cartoon character's stuffed closet if they were all stored on site. Approximately 80 percent of the museum's collection is held at its warehouse. When Nathan Carroll took over as curator of the museum, he found the warehouse full of bones laying on the ground. Since then, he has organized and built shelves to keep them off the floor. The Denver Museum recently donated archival...
Gwenith Schultz, museum receptionist and historian completed the first phase of the Eagle Archive project on Friday, April 6, 2018. The project began in 2005 with volunteers including Jeane Koefelda. Gwen continued the work in 2008 and has been the lead staff member on the project ever since. The workflow relied heavily on the ability of the museum to fund the project throughout the years and was completed with the assistance of grants including one from the Montana Community...
