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The National Endowment for the Humanities is accepting applications for grants to direct a summer program for college faculty or schoolteachers on a humanities topic of the director’s expertise.



The deadline to propose a summer program for Summer 2013 is March 1, 2012.…

We're sad to share the news that Chris Pinet, French professor extraordinaire and advocate for the humanities in Montana, has passed away.  Chris served as chair of the (then) Montana Committee for the Humanities for two years, and he often expressed his pride in that role.  He remained an enthusiastic supporter of our work, often sending encouraging e-mails from places near and far (occasionally from Paris).  Please see the article below for a much fuller telling of his wonderful life. …

Thanks to Helen and Bob Singleton for sharing their story of courage and conviction as Freedom Riders in 1961. Humanities Montana is proud to have made their appearances in Montana possible. Please click on this link for much more information about this impressive, inspiring couple: http://bit.ly/sUjEtH

Thanks to everyone--especially those fine writers--for making the 12th annual HM Festival of the Book special.  I wish I could have visited with every writer in person--we so admire your work, your persistence, your courage.  We need you more than ever.  NEH says "Democracy demands wisdom." You provide that wisdom in so many ways.  And for those readers who come out every year to share the love--we couldn't do this without you.  Already looking forward to next year. . . . .

Montana History Conference this Thursday-Saturday, Doubletree Inn, Missoula. Check out Richard Etulain, historian extraordinaire, on "Montana, Lincoln, and the Civil War," 7:30 pm, Thursday--free and open to the public (thanks to funding by Humanities Montana).  See link below for more info.…

Okay, shameless plug time. But I'm very excited to report that WEST OF 98 is now available, hopefully at your local independent bookstores. This is an anthology that I had the pleasure of editing with Lynn Stegner, and it features essays and poetry from sixty-six writers from every state West of the 98th meridian, talking about their experience of growing up or moving to the West, and how they see the Western identity changing. We were fortunate enough to include Larry McMurtry, Louise…

Production part of Npustin (an indigenous arts organization), Salish Kootenai College’s HeartLines, and the Arlee CDC’s collaborative vision to bring theater arts workshops for young adults and performances of plays by Native playwrights to the Flathead Reservation

A new production of “Moon Over Mission Dam”, a play co-written by Salish poet Vic Charlo and Spokane poet, Zan Agzigian, will be…

It's the season of wonderful appointments.  Bruce Whittenberg, long-time member of Humanities Montana's Board of

Directors, has just been named Director of the Montana Historical Society in Helena.  See the link below for Bruce's thoughts on leading this august, crucial cultural institution, born in 1865 in Virginia City.  A quote near the end of the article captures his commitment to Montana's past and future:"It's not about dusty artifacts and stuff just by themselves-- it's, 'What…

The film adaptation of James Welch’s classic n­­ovel Winter in the Blood is set to begin this August.  Under the direction of Montana’s own Alex and Andrew Smith (The Slaughter Rule), the cast and crew will shoot on the Hi-Line, in Northern Montana, where Welch grew up and where the…

Check out this terrific survey of book festivals in the West, featuring our very own event in Missoula: http://www.newwest.net/topic/article/30987/C39/L39/

For more information about this year's Humanities Montana Festival of the Book, October 6-8, go here: http://www.humanitiesmontana.org/BookFestival/bookfest.php

In case…

Before summer arrives and students leave campus for work and play, a brief thank you to all those students who shared insights on the "Power of Poetry" discussion threads.  Your passion, smarts, and persistence (you stuck with the discussions) made the Roundtable that much more lively and engaging.  Hope you enjoyed it too.  Please continue to participate as time and technology allow.  And yes, have a great summer.

Ken Egan, Executive Director, Humanities Montana

I'll be reading from my new novel, "The Summer Son," at Fact & Fiction in downtown Missoula on Tuesday, April 19 (that's tomorrow). The event starts at 7 p.m.

Here are a couple of recent reviews of the book:

Missoula Independent: "This book is a fitfully insightful prompt that dormant secrets are always an inch away, ready to destroy…