Riding For The Brand in Yellowstone Country – Montana Bunkhouses

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Let's Bale Hay

Most ranches in this area have switched fromrepparttar older rectangular hay bales torepparttar 133688 large cylindrical ones (what, didn't you know that?), butrepparttar 133689 rectangular ones make great pews. We sat on bales besiderepparttar 133690 creek and sang "Amazing Grace" as several of our hosts played guitars and violins. Rancher Terry Terland conductedrepparttar 133691 informal service and compared Christ's protection of his flock of believers torepparttar 133692 dedication of today's ranchers. He also read a passage from Jack Terry's "The Great Trail Ride" describingrepparttar 133693 courage and loyalty of American cowboys, who often risked their own lives to protect their bosses' livestock. "They rode forrepparttar 133694 brand," Terry said.

Did I mentionrepparttar 133695 ranch stays are a hands-on experience? After church we got a closer look atrepparttar 133696 hay-baling operation. Guest Miki, from Tokyo, Japan, droverepparttar 133697 tractor under Matt's tutelage: she gathered up several rows of mown hay withrepparttar 133698 towed baler and then releasedrepparttar 133699 cylindrical bale behindrepparttar 133700 tractor. Comparing her creation to sushi, we called it a "Miki roll."

With that, it was time for lunch.

The historic Grand Hotel was built in 1890 inrepparttar 133701 nearby town of Big Timber. Before enjoying a delicious lunch inrepparttar 133702 dining room, we looked at some wonderful black-and-white photographs by local artist Barbara Van Cleve. Atrepparttar 133703 Crazy Mountain Museum, lifelong resident Betty Jarrett gave us a sense ofrepparttar 133704 area's family history. How many places have sixth- and seventh-generation ranches and businesses? The museum featured lots of old photos, many showing ancestors ofrepparttar 133705 folks we were meeting on our visit. Rancher Leo Cremer showed me his great-grandfather's ornate saddle from his days as a rodeo producer. "I feel like a newcomer, since I'm only fourth generation," Leo grinned.

Is it okay to yell "Play!" in a crowded firehouse? Inrepparttar 133706 nearby town of Livingston, we saw an old-fashioned Vaudeville performance atrepparttar 133707 Firehouse 5 Playhouse. Re-established here in 1990, it featured eight enthusiastic singers, many of them local kids fromrepparttar 133708 university in Bozeman. Their musical skits ranged from moderately serious (four ladies harmonizing "Don't Fence Me In") to hilariously absurd (an English dungeon scene with really bad Cockney accents). This theater survives inrepparttar 133709 rural area because so many people, from Bozeman to Billings, knowrepparttar 133710 performers personally.

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San Francisco Symphony Plays The Kennedy Center

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The third movement, played 'Adagio', returns you to greyness. The ethereal chords and unusual bent tones fromrepparttar kettledrums suggest a weird dream,repparttar 133687 kind that makes you wonder what was in last night's dinner.

When I looked down at my program and saw 'Allegro molto' forrepparttar 133688 final movement, I began feeling around for a seat belt. Another wild, melodic ride ensued, carried byrepparttar 133689 strings and spiced by cymbal and kettledrum. The movement is described as a country dance, and Maestro Tilson Thomas reminded me (forgive me here) of a huge dancing grasshopper, his long limbs and tuxedo tails flying. A final crescendo built into a sudden, almost unexpected ending. Spectacular! It was a long, arduous piece of music, and an intermission followed. This was entirely understandable, asrepparttar 133690 musicians must have been drained. I certainly was.

The John F. Kennedy Center forrepparttar 133691 Performing Arts, originally conceived under President Eisenhower, was dedicated in 1964 by Congress after Kennedy's deathrepparttar 133692 previous November. The Center's Grand Foyer contains a seven-foot-high bronze bust of JFK and a new interactive information system that teaches visitors about his life and legacy.

The Center contains several performing-arts venues: its 2,441 seat concert hall was renovated in 1997, andrepparttar 133693 2,200 seat opera house will close for a year-long renovation after this December's Kennedy Center Honors gala. Next torepparttar 133694 opera house isrepparttar 133695 1,100 seat Eisenhower Theater, and up onrepparttar 133696 Terrace Level are two smaller venues. On display everywhere are gifts from aroundrepparttar 133697 world: Italian marble walls, Norwegian chandeliers, art works from numerous countries. The entire Center was intended to be a living memorial to JFK, who believed thatrepparttar 133698 quality of a nation's civilization is reflected inrepparttar 133699 vitality of its performing arts.

Carl Ruggles was a Twentieth-Century American composer who

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