Lauren handles all of the video/audio editing and social media content for The February Room and CD Fishing USA, and still works as a freelance editor in the outdoor television industry. The parent company, Composite Developments, is a New Zealand-based manufacturer with a 40-year history of innovations in the graphite rod manufacturing industry. The February Room Podcast is now nearing its 100 th episode and features interviews with all sorts of anglers, artists, guides, conservationists, and everyday folks with a good fishing yarn to spin.ĬD Fishing USA sells tackle across North America via their consumer direct e-commerce site and local fly shops throughout the Rockies. Following a decade in the outdoor television industry, where Lauren and Justin worked as an editor and producer, respectively, they took the plunge and launched their own retail and media business in 2020. Lauren and Justin Karnopp are the hosts and producers of The February Room Podcast and owners of CD Fishing USA. Photo by Lindsay Atnip, in front of the giant larch “Gus” at Seeley Lake, the largest in North America.ĬLICK HERE TO WATCH A RECORDING OF JOHN MACLEAN’S PRESENTATION I’ve fished the Blackfoot River, the river in my book title, throughout my life, as my father did before me, his father before him, and my sons do now.” “We’ve been tied there in one way or another for five generations and counting. “It’s a good thing to have a sense of place, and Montana more than any place is where my family has its roots,” Maclean says. Maclean is the son of Norman Maclean, author of A River Runs through It, the acclaimed novella about life in early twentieth century Montana. His newest book, Home Waters: A Chronicle of Family and a River, includes a chapter chronicling Merriwether Lewis’ journey from Travelers’ Rest along the Road to the Buffalo. Since then, he has written five nonfiction books about wildland fires. Maclean spent thirty years at the Chicago Tribune, most of that time as a Washington correspondent, before taking up a second career as an author. From these stories we can still today see landmarks that tell us of creation of the world and human beings.”Īn award winning author and journalist, John N. The stories teach and tell of values and morals. He showed the right way to live with each other and with the earth and its creatures. Many of the stories tell of Snč̓l̓é – Coyote – who prepared the world for human beings who were yet to come. Salish elder Eneas “Tom Puss” Pierre remembered that during the long winter nights when he was a little boy, he and other children would listen “with our mouths hanging open” in amazement. The children are encouraged to sit quietly and listen with thoughts of their own about being part of the stories. Stories are told by parents, grandparents, and great-grandparents to the younger generations. This is a time of year when the Selis and Qlispel people relax from the summer and early fall harvesting seasons.
“Storytelling begins after the first snowfall. Winner, Montana Book Award-Honor Book, 2019ĬLICK HERE TO WATCH A RECORDING OF CORRIE’S PRESENTATIONĮlders and staff from the Séliš-Ql̓ispé Culture Committee share traditional stories and reflect on what these stories tell us about tribal culture, history, and the people’s relationship with the land.įrom the Culture Committee’s Facebook page: She offers a foil for the poet’s first-person Montana narrative and enriches the historical perspective of the poetry, providing a female voice to counterbalance the often male-centered discovery and frontier narrative. Julia lived with Clark in the then-frontier town of St. The remaining sections are persona poems written in the voice of Julia Hancock Clark, wife of William Clark, who she married soon after he returned from his western expedition with Meriwether Lewis. Three of the book’s five sections follow poet Corrie Williamson’s experiences while living for five years in western Montana.
The River Where You Forgot My Name travels between early 1800s Virginia and Missouri and present-day western Montana, a place where “bats sail the river of dark.” In their crosscutting, the poems in this collection reflect on American progress technology, exploration, and environment and the ever-changing landscape at the intersection of wilderness and civilization.
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