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-Benjamin Franklin
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It’s Bazaar Season Again
Trego’s Annual Christmas Bazaar wrapped up this weekend- and it’s only one among many. A busy weekend! Additionally, the Riverwalk Memorial Luminary Walk and tree lighting took place in Eureka on Friday. The Tobacco Valley News provided the usual guide to the holiday bazaars, with dates, times and locations (much needed, as there were quite Read more
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How we heat our homes- firewood
Wood is a common source of heat- though perhaps more so at the county level than at the state. It’s hard to find precise numbers, though there were about 1,000 wood stoves exchanged down in Libby when they had the exchange program (a rare occasion in which our county health department made the New York Read more
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Continuing Montana’s Energy Production
In Montana, energy for transportation didn’t start with fossil fuels – the first energy production was firewood for steamboats traveling the Missouri. I recall the name “Peter Koch” from my years at MSU – not from any history class, but because his name designated a high rise apartment complex in married student housing. I no Read more
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Dickey Lake and 3.98 Degrees
Every winter, the open water of Dickey Lake reminds me that water is at its maximum density at 3.98 degrees Celsius – 39.16 degrees Fahrenheit. Simply enough, when the surface water reaches 3.98 C, it heads for the bottom. Since Dickey lake is somewhere around 74 feet deep, there is a lot of water that Read more
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Connections
Forty-odd years ago, James Burke came up with a book and a television series called Connections. The back jacket reads “He explains, for instance, how the arrival of the cannon led eventually to the development of movies; how the popularity of underwear in the twelfth century led to the development of the printing press; how Read more
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