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Because of advanced new technology, a second oil boom has hit Western North Dakota and Eastern Montana. This Bakken formation has impacted more than just the oil industries. Towns around the Bakken oil formation are experience sudden growth in population. This program features those besieged by these new changes as well as those who are capitalizing on the oil boom.
Airs Thursday 12/13 at 7pm, repeats Monday 12/17 at 3am
(No. 120 )
We visit a Big Hole Valley family that's been haying together for generations, hear the sounds of fall as elk bugle near Moiese, meet a small-town guitarist who has criss-crossed Montana performing for more than 70 years, learn the history of a one-of-a-kind bridge near Augusta, and drop in on a woman who reports the news from Sweet Grass. Montana native William Marcus hosts the program from the C.M. Russell Museum in Great Falls.
Airs Saturday 12/15 at 5:30pm
(No. 1401 )
Most people associate the local food movement with smaller businesses and farmer's markets. Can this concept work on a larger scale? This program examines two Montana local businesses and two Montana public institutions to see how they incorporate local food into their operations.
Airs Saturday 12/15 at 5pm, repeats Sunday 12/16 at 10:30am
(No. 3804 )
What is the Montana Long-Term Care Partnership Insurance program? Marsha Goetting, Extension Ag Economist, answers this question and others.
Airs Sunday 12/16 at 11am
(No. 706 )
Featuring traditional and original music, musicians from across Montana return to the studio of 11th & Grant performing their Christmas favorites. Host Eric Funk plays piano alongside Jack Taylor on the acoustic bass and Mike Gillan on the drums as the "house band. " Other performers returning are Jake & Jeni Fleming, Elizabeth Croy &Julie Gosswiller, Kelly Roberti, MJ Williams & Ann Tappan, Don Stone, Jeremy Morton, Kris Klone, Tim Drackert & Julia Yates and Ashly Holland.
Airs Thursday 12/20 at 7pm, repeats Saturday 12/22 at 4:30pm, Saturday 12/22 at 10:08pm, Monday 12/24 at 2am, Tuesday 12/25 at 9pm, Thursday 12/27 at 2am
(No. 121 )
This episode takes us up the slopes with a long-time ski instructor near Anaconda, introduces us to the art of glass blowing in Townsend, shows us a new monument to Native American soldiers at the Little Big Horn Battlefield in Crow Agency and takes us to a reunion in the nearly forgotten northeastern Montana town of Comertown. Montana native William Marcus hosts the program from the Chief Plenty Coups State Park near Pryor.
Airs Saturday 12/22 at 5:30pm
The MAPS students are at it again. Join alumni and current students on an intimate tour of who MAPS really is -- the students and their creative forces. Get an insider's look at the people of MAPS and the creative work they produce in the Bitterroot Valley. MAPS is an after school media arts program that provides free media arts education to Bitterroot Valley high school students. The students will take the audience on a whimsical tour of MAPS and the creative chaos behind it all.
Airs Sunday 12/23 at 10:30am
In 1997, 12 young men and women from Ireland and Northern Ireland came to western Montana to work on Habitat for Humanity projects while learning how to deal with their cultural, political and religious differences. In 2010, MontanaPBS traveled to Ireland to tell the stories of five of the original 12 workers and how their lives have changed since their great adventure in Montana.
Airs Thursday 12/27 at 7pm, repeats Saturday 12/29 at 4:30pm, Monday 12/31 at 3am
(No. 2001 )
This episode features the following businesses: Mystery Ranch, Bozeman; LB Snow, Missoula; North Star West Inc., Antique Powder Rifles, Superior; Schnee's Boots, Bozeman; Hart's Motorsports & Dyno, Lolo; and 5 Cord Manufacturing, Missoula.
Airs Thursday 12/27 at 4am
(No. 122 )
In this episode we accompany the Shakespeare in the Parks troupe to Birney, the smallest community to host their tour; visit Kremlin-Gilford for its last homecoming parade; plant a special tree with a group of Girl Scouts in Great Falls; and walk an interpretive trail near Hamilton that tells the story of Lewis & Clark from another perspective. Produced by KUFM-TV/MontanaPBS, UM-Missoula.
Airs Saturday 12/29 at 5:30pm
A journalist and historian, Joe Howard was one of the most influential and controversial figures in Montana during the 1930s and 40s. He worked to draw attention to the social, political and economic struggles of the state. Still, his role in Montana's cultural development may have been his most significant contribution.
Airs Sunday 12/30 at 10:30am
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