by Milana Marsenich | Mar 13, 2024 | Articles
From the Archives in Butte, Montana: America Reads Last summer I was at the Butte-Silver Bow Public Archives to research a book that I am writing about Mary MacLane, Butte’s Wild Woman and Famed Literary Woman. I am lucky because Mary MacLane has been well-documented....
by Milana Marsenich | Mar 6, 2024 | Articles
While in Butte, Montana, conducting research for a book I’m writing, Mary MacLane: Butte’s Wild Woman and Her Wooden Heart, I came upon an article about The Queen of Palmistry, Madame Belmont. She had been visiting Butte for the last month and had aroused interest and...
by Milana Marsenich | Jan 1, 2024 | Articles
I’d like to take a minute to thank everyone for their support through the last year and wish you all a Happy New Year. I’m not sure why it brings such peace to me to have this new beginning. It’s a day like any day, yet because of that 1/1 on the calendar, it feels...
by Milana Marsenich | Sep 23, 2023 | Articles
Six months after my mother died, my 73-year-old father pulled his kayak out of the Colorado River and his heart stopped. It stopped only for a few seconds and then started again. My brother took him back to his house in Glenwood Springs and my father insisted on...
by Milana Marsenich | May 20, 2023 | Articles
During the fall of 1918, the influenza pandemic crosses the nation & reaches the mining town of Butte, Montana. I wrote about it in Beautiful Ghost. You can read the description of the flu coming to town here. The wolf dog wanders through the town where mining...
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