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Five generations ago, Anna Pesa Vojta and her husband, Josef, immigrated from Moravia (Czechoslovakia) to Mound City, Dakota Territory.  One of the few pleasures enjoyed year-round was the wine she made from wild grapes and other “prairie berries” she found growing nearby.  Today at Prairie Berry Winery, we focus on creating award-winning wines that capture [...]

Moonlight Basin is a ski resort in southwestern Montana, located in the Madison Range of the Rocky Mountains near the resort village of Big Sky. Today, it is connected through a chairlift to the ski resort of Big Sky.
The resort’s land was purchased from Plum Creek Timber in 1992 and began as Moonlight Basin Ranch, [...]

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HBO’s pioneering series takes the dark carnival gambit of Ray Bradbury’s Something Wicked This Way Comes, drops it in the bleak heartland of Dust Bowl-era America and jolts it with a compelling undercurrent of Biblical apocalypse. That’s no easy dramatic flux to musically evoke, but veteran TV composer Jeff Beal graces the show with cues [...]

Opened in 1906 the Matthews Opera House was the setting for stage productions and traveling shows through the 1930’s. Built by local Wyoming rancher, Thomas Matthews at a cost of $50,000, the Opera House opened on December 3, 1906 with a political farce-comedy called “The Lion and the Mouse”. Throughout the next 10 years the [...]

Fort Laramie was a significant 19th century trading post and diplomatic site located in the U.S. state of Wyoming. During the middle 19th century, it was a primary stopping point on the Oregon Trail and the Mormon Trail and was, along with Bent’s Fort on the Arkansas River, the most significant economic hub of commerce [...]