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Harmon’s Histories: Jim has a gardening addiction; he’s not alone missoulacurrent.com/missoula… @missoulacurrent

Harmon's Histories: Jim has a gardening addiction; he's not alone

“They say the first step is admitting you have a problem. So today, right here in this column, I admit it. I am a junkie, an addict. I need help.”

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Harmon’s Histories: Montana’s rich history of family stories, yours and mine missoulacurrent.com/montana-… @missoulacurrent

Harmon's Histories: Montana's rich history of family stories, yours and mine

I’m sharing the personal stories – not just my professional resume - with my daughter and her daughter...and, to a lesser degree, with you, in hopes it will spur all of you to your keyboards and...

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Harmon’s Histories: Doo-wop: Nostalgic for the Billboard Hot 100 missoulacurrent.com/pop-musi… @missoulacurrent

Harmon's Histories: Doo-wop: Nostalgic for the Billboard Hot 100

I prefer the good old days. No Internet. Quieter and slower times. Just waiting for my latest Billboard Magazine in the mail, to find out who and what topped the chart this week, and hoping the...

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Harmon’s Histories: Wampus cat lopes down Missoula’s North Hills missoulacurrent.com/wampus-c… @missoulacurrent

Harmon's Histories: Wampus cat lopes down Missoula's North Hills

The other day, I found myself reviewing old newspaper clippings in my files, when I came across the following item: “Ferocious Wampus Almost Visits Missoula.”

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Harmon’s Histories: Buffalo hunters wiped out 2 immense Montana herds missoulacurrent.com/montana-… @missoulacurrent

Harmon's Histories: Buffalo hunters wiped out 2 immense Montana herds

Today, very few bison remain. In a way, you could blame the fur traders who decimated the populations of mink, beaver and otter, causing a shift to buffalo pelts to make stylish clothing for the...

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Harmon’s Histories: Dunn Creek Nell deserves a marker in Libby cemetery missoulacurrent.com/dunn-cre… @missoulacurrent

Harmon's Histories: Dunn Creek Nell deserves a marker in Libby cemetery

Hello, history fans! As I mentioned last week, I’ve taken some time off recently to recover from a major surgery. I’ll be back at the old keyboard next week. But for now, I’m sharing some of my...

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Harmon’s Histories: Recuperating from surgery with Dunn Creek Nell missoulacurrent.com/dunn-cre… @missoulacurrent

Harmon's Histories: Recuperating from surgery with Dunn Creek Nell

Jim Harmon writes, Hello, history fans! I’ve taken some time off recently to recover from a major surgery. I won’t bore you with any details.

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Harmon’s Histories: Whoa! Montana’s speed limit hard to catch! missoulacurrent.com/montana-… @missoulacurrent

Harmon's Histories: Whoa! Montana's speed limit hard to catch!

Remember when you could drive Montana roads and highways with no need to look at the speedometer? Well, that’s not entirely true. There was that thing called “reasonable and prudent,” but my interp...

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Harmon’s Histories: Preserve memories for future generations; they’ll thank you missoulacurrent.com/preserve… @missoulacurrent

Harmon's Histories: Preserve memories for future generations; they'll thank you

I have a final thought and recommendation to younger readers. Looking back now, I do wish I’d asked my parents and grandparents much more about their lives and the times in which they grew up.

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Harmon’s Histories: Determined Missoula tots ‘wed’ in police station ceremony missoulacurrent.com/missoula… @missoulacurrent

Harmon's Histories: Determined Missoula tots 'wed' in police station ceremony

“I hereby certify that Philip Henry, age 6, and Ila Arnold, age 4, have this day applied for permission to marry, and have paid a fee of 26 cents.” A call was placed to the “bride’s mother, Mrs. Carl...

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Harmon’s Histories: A century ago, Missoula hoped for civic harmony missoulacurrent.com/missoula… @missoulacurrent

Harmon's Histories: A century ago, Missoula hoped for civic harmony

One hundred years later, while much has changed, there is still, all across our country, a “strong personal prejudice and dissatisfaction with social and political matters.” Here’s hoping we can...

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Harmon’s Histories: Merry Christmas from December 25, 1925! missoulacurrent.com/missoula… @missoulacurrent

Harmon's Histories: Merry Christmas from December 25, 1925!

Here’s how the Missoula Sentinel newspaper described things on December 25, 1925: “Christmas was unmarred by accident or disorder ... the ideal weather called many people out of doors. Streams were...

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Harmon’s Histories: Missoula once danced the night away in grand pavilions missoulacurrent.com/missoula… @missoulacurrent

Harmon's Histories: Missoula once danced the night away in grand pavilions

Back in the 1920s, dancing to the music of a live band or orchestra was hugely popular across the country and here in western Montana. The Elks Club and the Florence Hotel in Missoula featured large...

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Harmon’s Histories: The tragic, yet triumphant, tale of Missoula’s Sheridan brothers missoulacurrent.com/sheridan… @missoulacurrent

Harmon's Histories: The tragic, yet triumphant, tale of Missoula's Sheridan brothers

In the summer of 1924, the Sheridan brothers took a seven-piece orchestra on a statewide tour including performances in Butte, Anaconda, Helena, Bozeman, and a number of small towns near Missoula. By...

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Harmon’s Histories: Plains Murder II: Beauty Parlor Gossip Proves Damning missoulacurrent.com/plains-m… @missoulacurrent

Harmon's Histories: Plains Murder II: Beauty Parlor Gossip Proves Damning

Travel with us, back in time, to the early spring of 1925, when a sordid love triangle in the small community of Plains, Montana generated headlines across the country.

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Harmon’s Histories: Love triangle ends in Plains murder, national uproar missoulacurrent.com/love-tri… @missoulacurrent

Harmon's Histories: Love triangle ends in Plains murder, national uproar

Mrs. Clyde Long, age 36, had been a Plains resident for about a decade. News reports indicated she’d operated the Windsor hotel for a time, and lived down by the river. She had known the younger man,...

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Harmon’s Histories: Thor! The Iron That Saves Your Day missoulacurrent.com/thor-iro… @missoulacurrent

Harmon's Histories: Thor! The Iron That Saves Your Day

The housewife would feed the fabric onto the roller and close the top. Then she would use a series of knobs on the handle to press the fabric against the electric-powered roller and rotate the...

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Harmon’s Histories: October 1889 brought five-legged pig, railway aquarium to town missoulacurrent.com/missoula… @missoulacurrent

Harmon's Histories: October 1889 brought five-legged pig, railway aquarium to town

The local Missoula news of October 30, 1889 gives us an interesting snapshot into the commerce and society of our small, but growing town (growing, thanks to the arrival of the railroad a couple of...

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Harmon’s Histories: Dead cats tied to door knobs? No more Halloween hijinks! missoulacurrent.com/hallowee… @missoulacurrent

Harmon's Histories: Dead cats tied to door knobs? No more Halloween hijinks!

It was the day before Halloween, October 30, 1908, and Major Sylvester of the Washington D.C. Police was fed up! He ordered his officers to “repress hilarious gaiety!”

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Harmon’s Histories: Bitterroot Valley agriculture produces delicious tale missoulacurrent.com/bitterro… @missoulacurrent

Harmon's Histories: Bitterroot Valley agriculture produces delicious tale

“In no other section of Montana can there be found happier, healthier, more helpful or lovelier girls than in Ravalli County. Like all other products of the Bitter Root Valley, they are beyond...

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