Big Sky Blog

There’s a whole lotta bloggers here in Montana; here’s a roster of some of them. At one point, it was probably the most comprehensive listing of Big Sky Bloggers, around, but with the explosion in blogging over the last couple of years – and the tidal wave of micro-blogging services and social media – it’s a little out of date. Nevertheless, if you ever run out of blogs to read, come on over here and just start clicking!

Walter Breuning, who lives in Great Falls, Montana, inherited the title of “World’s Oldest Living Man” in June 2009.

Walter celebrated his 113th birthday in September 2009.

Author Elizabeth Eslami, who now lives in Oregon, has written a very nice essay/blog post about her four years in Montana…here’s two little snippets:

I have a theory that the state of Montana is enormous for a reason. That its vastness is a test, each highway a reticulated part of a puzzle. You have to work hard to get there. Whether it’s 15 North, winding from the lunar hills of Monida Pass across to wind-scraped Great Falls, Interstate 90 from hip Bozeman to rimrocked Billings, or the hi-line from Cut Bank to Wolf Point, where blizzards seem to blow up out of the road itself, travelling through Montana is a test of your patience and of your character. After all, what else can you expect from a place famous for the size of its sky?
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I’ve always found beauty in the places we’ve lived. But then, if I’m honest, really truly honest, I have to admit that, for me, there is no better place than Montana.

Read the whole thing.