2008
Thomas Francis Meagher
OUR STORY FROM 2008
August 7
5:00 p.m. Reception at "The Castle" Museum (Meagher County Historical Association)
5:30 - 6:30 p.m. Discussion of Hattie Big Sky, Nancy Widdicombe, moderator Carter Benton (MFA ’08) and Maggie Johnston, readings - Creative Writing Program at U of M
August 8
8:00 a.m. - 9:00 a.m. Registration and Coffee
9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. (with break for coffee)
Panel of editors of Montana magazines:
Montana, the Magazine of Western History - Molly Holz
Montana Magazine - Butch Larcombe
Big Sky Journal - Seabring Davis
Western Art & Architecture - Seabring Davis
Distinctly Montana - Valerie Harms
Montana Living - David Reese
The New West - Courtney Lowry
The Montana Quarterly - Nick Ehli
The Drumlummon Institute - Rick Newby
Signature Montana - Hayley Lennington-Leray
Discussion of selected articles from magazines - (F. Scott Fitzgerald -- Landon Jones)
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. Lunch with Janet Spencer - Montana Trivia
1:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. Introduction of new Montana history textbook - Lee Rostad, Ellen Baumler
2:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. Diana Pharoah Francis - Path of Fate, The Cipher
2:30 p.m. - 2:45 p.m. Coffee Break
2:45 p.m. - 3:14 p.m. "TBA"
3:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. General book signing and visiting with authors (Diana, Neil, Paul Wylie, Dick Wheeler, Frank Seitz, Ellen Baumler, etc.)
5:30 p.m. Dinner - Camas Creek Ranch, home of Jock and Jamie Doggett
Michael Delaney, Mark Twain in Montana
August 9
8:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Magazine Writing Workshop, conducted by Valerie Harms and Sue Hart -
White Sulphur Springs Community Center
Afternoon – Visit the Charles M. Bair Family Museum - free admission for book festival participants...
Festival sponsors and volunteers:
Montana Committee for the Humanities
Friends of the Bair
Mountain Star Book Club
Wine, Women and Words
Meagher County Public Library
Bank of the Rockies
Meagher County Historical Society
Meagher County Arts Council
Writers Voice