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4 MontanaPBS May 2013 Made in Montana indicates Montana Made programs throughout this guide Aaron Pruitt/Scott Sterling 4-H: Six Montana Stories Follow six young Montanans as they learn what 4-H is all about. It’s about refusing to give up on the runt of the litter, staying up all night to bottle feed a sick calf while knowing someday you’ll have to say goodbye. It’s about knowing where you’re headed but never forgetting where you’ve been. And it’s about pledging your head, your heart, your hands, and your health to help others. Airs Thursday 5/9 at 7pm, repeats Monday 5/13 at 3am Walter “Blackie” Nelson, Wilbur Rehmann, Ken Nelson 11th & Grant w/Eric Funk · The Dirty Shame In the tradition of outlaw country music, The Dirty Shame takes listeners on a journey into the Wild West. Airs Thursday 5/2 at 7pm, repeats Saturday 5/4 at 10:07pm, Monday 5/6 at 3:30am · NEW! Wilbur Rehmann Quintet Helena performers Wilbur Rehmann, saxophone, and Blackie Nelson, guitar, shine a light on jazz standards as this quintet heats up the studio of 11th & Grant. In his 80s, legendary Montana jazz guitarist Blackie Nelson demonstrates clearly how musicians seem to become younger even as they age. Airs Thursday 5/16 at 7pm, repeats Saturday 5/18 at 10:39pm, Monday 5/20 at 3am Fort Peck Dam The Dam was an engineering feat in a place as harsh and desolate as any on earth. It provided hope and a regular paycheck during the Great Depression. Thousands faced unforgiving conditions to build the Fort Peck Dam, a project bold in design, daring in execution, and far reaching in its effects. Airs Wednesday 5/1 at 12pm Virginia City: Where History Lives This program takes viewers down the boardwalks of Virginia City, Mont. Regional characters share the history of the area while incorporating personal experiences that detail how Virginia City shaped our state’s early days. Airs Saturday 5/4 at 5pm, repeats Sunday 5/19 at 10:30am Business: Made In Montana: Outdoor Edition This episode features the following businesses: Mystery Ranch, Bozeman; LB Snow, Missoula; North Star West Inc., Antique Powder Rifles, Superior; Schnee’s Boots, Bozeman; Hart’s Motorsports & Dyno, Lolo; and 5 Cord Manufacturing, Missoula. Airs Sunday 5/5 at 10:30am Maps: Finding Our Voice Join alumni and current students on an intimate tour of who MAPS really is—the students and their creative forces. Get an insider’s look at the people of MAPS and the creative work they produce in the Bitterroot Valley. MAPS is an after school media arts program that provides free media arts education to Bitterroot Valley high school students. Airs Saturday 5/18 at 5pm Montana Ag Live · Women Take Over Ag Live! Montana agriculture just wouldn’t be the same without the women. Join Jacy Rothschiller of Montana Botanicals and our first ever all-female panel. Airs Sunday 5/5 at 11am • Montana Treasures: Can Fish & Ag Coexist? Bruce Rich from Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks, Bureau Chief for Fisheries will answer questions concerning the interaction of agriculture and maintaining healthy fish populations. Airs Sunday 5/5 at 6pm, repeats Sunday 5/12 at 11am · Grain Markets In Montana Today MSU agricultural economist Anton Bekkerman looks at the changing landscape of Montana’s grain markets. Airs Sunday 5/12 at 6pm, repeats Sunday 5/19 at 11am · 2013 Legislative Impact On MSU MSU President Waded Cruzado will visit Montana Ag Live and bring viewers up to date on the 2013 legislative session and her vision for the College of Agriculture. Airs Sunday 5/19 at 6pm, repeats Sunday 5/26 at 11am
5 Charles M. Russell NWR: Nature’s Timeless Landscape The Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge is a sprawling slice of the American West. Located in the heart of Montana’s breaks country, the refuge has abundant wildlife species including sharp-tailed grouse, sage grouse, bighorn sheep, pronghorn antelope, elk and over 236 kinds of migratory birds. Stretching more than 125 miles from east to west along the Missouri River, the refuge is not one destination, but many. Airs Saturday 5/11 at 5pm, repeats Wednesday 5/15 at 1am Global Positioning · Tseji Llamo Tseji Llamo tells her story about growing up in a poor rural village in Tibet and finding her way to educational opportunities, including a sponsored year at Carroll College, where she’s studying business. Airs Sunday 5/26 at 10:30am · Myles and Terry Grotbo Myles and Terry Grotbo grew up in Phillipsburg and are longtime residents of Helena. Both are experienced geologists with extensive backgrounds as mining and environmental engineering consultants, working on projects in West Africa and Latin America. Airs Sunday 5/12 at 10:30am Guns in the Big Sky: · Montana’s Gun Culture From ranchers who use guns to manage their livestock to survivors of a 1986 Montana school shooting, this program explores the role of guns in Montana’s culture. Crimes, violence and even school shootings in our state are also examined. Airs Tuesday 5/21 at 7pm, repeats Wednesday 5/22 at 12pm, Thursday 5/23 at 5am, Thursday 5/23 at 3am, Saturday 5/25 at 4:30pm 5/4 5:30pm, 5/13 4:30 · Pancakes and Polo Get ready for wild rides, wild flowers, and wild stories in this episode. We gape at cowboy polo east of Missoula; walk through a field of wildflowers on Big Hole Pass west of Dillon, listen in at the annual storytellers’ conference in Cut Bank, and stop along the way for a bite to eat at Yesterday’s Calf-A in Dell. And host William Marcus gives us a tour of the original Governor’s Mansion in Helena, built by a businessman in 1888 and residence of governors from 1931 to 1959. 5/11 5:30pm · Music and Memories The Backroads crew takes us along on visits to the Accordion Festival in Philipsburg, the Ross Cedars in Northwest Montana, a bucking bronco school in Arlee and historic Mann Gulch near Helena. And we get to know a grain elevator photographer in Bozeman. 5/11 5:30pm · Flathead Lake to the Crazy Mountains William Marcus introduces us to a Big Timber man who works on a minute level; follow a group of seniors as they beautify a stretch of highway in northwest Montana; hitch a ride on the Orphan Girl Express at the World Museum of Mining in Butte; unwind in Helena with a man who restores wind-up phonographs and storm the castle in White Sulphur Springs. NEW! 5/20 8pm, 5/22 1am, 5/25 5:30pm · Paintings, Partials and Pies Follow competitors in the cherry pit spitting and cherry pie eating contests at the Flathead Cherry Festival in Polson. Learn the story of Hobson dentist Virgil Stewart who began his practice in 1912 during an era when most rural Montanans could not afford such care. Hike into the Sweet Grass Hills where natural wonder rises out of the prairie. And meet an eastern Montana man whose passion for art has literally spread all over the town of Forsyth. William Marcus hosts the program from historical landmarks near Havre and Chinook. Clearing The Smoke: The Science of Cannabis This MontanaPBS documentary reveals how cannabis acts on the brain and in the body to treat nausea, pain, epilepsy and potentially even cancer. Extensive interviews with patients, doctors, researchers and skeptics detail the promises and the limitations of medicinal cannabis. Airs Thursday 5/30 at 7pm Provided by Anna Rau · Keeping Schools Safe, A Town Hall Meeting MontanaPBS hosts a live forum on school safety. This program brings the conversation of gun regulation, sparked by the recent tragedy in Newtown, Conn., to Montana schools. Airs Thursday 5/23 at 7pm, repeats Wednesday 5/29 at 12pm Dr. Eric Voth, Chairman of the Institute on Global Drug Policy, discusses medicinal cannabis in Clearing the Smoke
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