Rendezvous with Melody Graulich

Rendezvous with Melody Graulich

The one and only, Melody Graulich!   We meet in Swan Valley, Idaho, set up at Camp Rendezvous, a small mom-and-pop shop with no tent campers but us. Melody herself had planned to throw her bag down under the stars, but late-day rain and her dog, who she thinks might...
Guest Post: Finding Community through Transcription

Guest Post: Finding Community through Transcription

This post is written by Zainab Abdali, the graduate summer intern for the Living West as Feminists project.  9 am in Houston. I sit down at my desk with a cup of coffee, open up my laptop, and put my headphones on. I hit play. The conversation that I listen to is...
For Me, the West is Rural

For Me, the West is Rural

The Missoula Public Library is Randi’s choice of place for our conversation.  It is a state-of-the-art facility any city would envy, created by local architects A&E Design in partnership with Minneapolis-based Traci Lesneski of MSR Design, library-museum...
Lunch with Clark Whitehorn

Lunch with Clark Whitehorn

Our editor for this project, Clark Whitehorn, invites us to lunch.  He works with University of Nebraska Press, but home is Helena, Montana. For more about Clark’s work, see here. From the start Clark has been behind this project, excited about its on-the-road...
Deciding to Remember the Many Strands of Home

Deciding to Remember the Many Strands of Home

  I’m reading “Spokane Kitten” as we drive north toward Cody, into the Heat Dome. Hot, hot, hot. Excerpted from a memoir in progress, “Spokane Kitten” tells the tale of Linda’s Montana childhood spent working around a mother’s addictions.  José and I will...