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Working primarily in oils, artist Sam Iddings has made a living painting what he knows. “I grew up on ranches, and my dad had me riding colts at a very early age,” he explains. “There’s something [...]

Room at the Top by Marilynn Dwyer Mason Author Unknown Long, long ago, in a land far away lived a perfect little tree named Small Pine. Small Pine hoped to maintain its perfect form and be [...]

In 1818, a roving band of actors was performing in towns throughout the Austrian Alps. On December 23, they arrived at Oberndorf, a village near Salzburg. There they were scheduled to perform the [...]

Christmas Truce of 1914 by Angus Mcbride During World War I, on and around Christmas Day 1914, the sounds of rifles firing and shells exploding faded in a number of places along the Western Front [...]

Home on the Range by Lynn Bywaters Author Unknown It’s okay if you’re a little bottom heavy.

 Hold your ground, even when the heat is on. 

Wearing white is always appropriate.

 It [...]

Author Unknown Some years ago, there lived in an English city a man whomI shall call Fred Armstrong. He worked in the local post office, where he was called “dead-letter man” because he handled [...]

The Christmas List by Lynn Bywaters Attributed to Clement Clarke Moore ‘Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse; The [...]

The Christmas Star by Lynn Bywaters In 1847, Placide Cappeau de Roquemaure, a commissionaire of wines in a small French town, was asked by his parish priest to pen a poem for Christmas mass. The [...]

by Tiffany Sweeney Steve Gonser, one of our own hometown heroes, worked for the Great Falls City Fire Department for 36 years. Steve felt he had won the lottery when he landed the best job in the [...]

The end of 2021 marks a special occasion for Fuddruckers of Great Falls—23 years in business. But it is a bittersweet anniversary, as it also marks the one-year passing of beloved manager Todd [...]