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Celebrate Christmas in Deer Lodge
By admin | December 1, 2008
Christmas Festival and Stroll
Come to Deer Lodge this Friday 5th December till Sunday 7th December 2008
The festivities start on Friday with Santa’s visit to City Hall at 5pm, followed by the Youth Carnival from 5-7pm. A Free Children’s Movie will be shown at the Depot Church at 7pm
The Annual Christmas Festival at The Pen starts at 7pm
Highlights of the evening include;
- Limited number of Holiday items for sale
- Auction of our featured tree and local artwork
- Door prizes and 50/50 drawing
- Treat bags for all children, and a special kids only door prize
- Live music by ‘Short Notice’ (the Wes Harr band)
- Dancing
- Food and beverages
- Wine bar run by the Elks
- Special appearance by Santa Claus
- The drawing for our raffle car, the 1955 Thunderbird Roadster (tickets are still available HERE)
Christmas Stroll & Parade
On Saturday, the Christmas Stroll begins at 2pm and runs until 7pm along Main Street. Over 200 prizes will be given away, you may buy a Stroll Button from many stores for $2.00. The Parade along Main Street starts at 6pm. The Prison Museum Gift Shop will be open from 10am till 4pm, take advantage of our Christmas Sales to pick up special gifts for your friends and family.
Grant Kohrs Open House
On Sunday there is a Holiday Open House at the Grant Kohrs Ranch, from 1-4 pm
So, come along to Deer Lodge this weekend and join the crowd as we celebrate the start of Christmas with our local community.
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Gift Shop Sale Days
By admin | November 27, 2008
Black Friday - 5% OFF EVERYTHING!
To Celebrate the Holidays, you can save when you shop online with us this Friday and Saturday, 28th to 29th November.
Just enter the code ‘BLACKFRIDAY‘ into the box on the shopping cart page, and we will automatically deduct 5% from your order subtotal. No minimum purchase required.
We have a great range of gift ideas, from Old Prison collectibles, toys and dolls, auto collectibles, books, Christmas Ornaments, Angel Feather gifts, Montana Souvenirs, T-Shirts, Levi 501 Denim Jeans (Made in USA) and much, much more. Start your Christmas Shopping with us by going to www.pcmaf.org/shop
We accept payment by credit cards online or by telephone, or you can mail in your check and money order.
Happy Holidays!
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Last Chance to Win a Thunderbird!
By admin | November 22, 2008
Mark your calendars for the 5th December.
It could be your Red Letter Day!
Less than two weeks to go before YOU could be receiving a phone call from the director of the Montana Auto Museum, informing you that you are now the proud owner of a beautiful 1955 Ford Thunderbird Roadster. But, in order to win it you’ve got to be in it. Our Annual ‘Win a Classic Car‘ Raffle, that is.
Tickets are only $5 each, 5 for $20 or 30 for $100.
You can purchase them online by clicking on THIS LINK, or by calling our raffle ticket hotline on 1 406 846 3111. (Wednesday to Sunday, 10am to 4pm Mountain Time)
For more information and photos of this very special car, please visit the website at www.annualclassiccarraffle.com
If you are in the area, or traveling along Interstate I90, you can see the car in our Visitors Center at 1106 Main Street, Deer Lodge, Montana 59722. We are open Wednesday to Sunday, 10am to 4pm
Raffle Information
•Drawing held December 5, 2008 at 9 pm MST, at The Pen Convention Center in Deer Lodge, Montana
•Disclaimer: This fund raiser is managed by Powell County Museum and Arts Foundation, a non-profit 501c (3) organization.
•All proceeds support the Montana Auto Museum.
•Need not be present to win.
•Must be 18 or older to participate.
•Mail entries must be received by December 4, 2008.
•Void where prohibited by law.
•Winner notified by telephone and certified mail.
•Winner responsible for all applicable taxes, fees and delivery charges.
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Happy Halloween
By admin | October 28, 2008
WELCOME TO ‘THE MAX’!
After the success of last weekends ‘Old Montana Prison Haunted House‘, we are pleased to announce that this Friday’s events will be bigger and better than ever! ‘Maximum Security‘ will become part of our Halloween experience. This section of the Old Prison building, once home to the ‘Womens Prison‘ before it was transferred to Billings, is home to a large number of reported paranormal events. See how long you can stand the fear!
Haunted House Tours start at 8pm on Friday 31st October, and finish at 11pm.
Wrap up warm and be prepared to be afraid, very afraid!!!! (Not suitable to children under 10.)
Admission is $5 per person.
Don’t forget the Halloween Kids Festival over at the Pen Convention Center, drop off your young ones from 8 till 11pm before you head over to the Prison.
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Terror in the Cell House
By admin | October 21, 2008
NIGHT OF INSANITY!
Join in the frightful fun this Halloween for our 4th Annual “Old Montana Prison Haunted House”
The spooks come out to play from 8pm to 11pm on the following nights;
- Friday 24th October
- Saturday 25th October
- Friday 31st October
Admission is $5.00 per person
Be scared or be square!
Halloween Kids Festival
Parents, before you have the living daylights scared out of you in the Haunted House, bring your little goblins over to the Pen Convention Center for our Halloween Kids Festival.
- GAMES
- PRIZES
- TREATS
- FUN
The festival runs from 8-11pm on the 24th, 25th and 31st October
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Hollywood Behind Bars
By admin | October 10, 2008
When The Movies Came To The Old Montana Prison
What do the films ‘Fast Walking’, ‘Diggstown’, ‘The Last Ride’ and ‘Loves Comes to the Executioner’ have in common?
All were partly filmed behind the walls of the Old Montana Prison.
The 1982 film ‘Fast Walking‘ starred James Wood as a dope-smoking Prison Guard called ‘Fast-Walking’ Miniver. Written, directed and produced by James B. Harris, this drama focuses on the guards, not the prisoners.
‘Diggstown‘, released in 1992, once again starred James Wood, this time as a man just released from prison. It also starred Louis Gossett Jr. as a boxer managed by Woods.
Cameras returned to the old MSP in 1994 for ‘The Last Ride‘ (also known as F.T.W). Starring Mickey Rourke as Frank T. Wells, a rodeo rider just released from prison who falls for a disturbed young woman, played by Lori Singer.
In 2003, ‘Love Comes To The Executioner‘ filmed in the prison cells. Written and directed by Kyle Bergersen, it stars Jonathan Tucker as a man who takes the job as executioner at the same prison where his brother is on Death Row.
Many more movies, TV shows, ads and photoshoots have taken part in the surrounding towns and countryside. To see a complete list of films shot in Montana, head on over to the Montana Film Office at http://www.montanafilm.com/
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Big Sky Draft Horse Expo
By admin | September 9, 2008
Draft Horse Expo in Deer Lodge this weekened
Deer Lodge is THE place to be this weekend, as the local fairgrounds is host to the 13th Annual Big Sky Draft Horse Expo. Have a wagonload of fun on the 13th and 14th September.
Expo is a fun, family show with a small town atmosphere. Showing many breeds of horses and mules from singles to six ups in friendly competition, plus a Quilt & Carriage show, Expo Trade Show, prize drawings and much more!
Big Sky Draft Horse Expo provides a variety of viewing and driving competitions such as; |
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| > | Six horse hitch Conformation |
| > | Four horse Hitch and Driving and Four Abreast |
| > | Junior and Senior Team Driving |
| > | Ladies, Pleasure and Junior Cart |
| > | Tandem and Unicorn |
| > | Antique/Unique and Street/Working |
| > | Working teamster classes including obstacle course, log skidding, and cultivating |
| > | Feed team race |
| > | Kids stick horse race and more |
For more information, please visit the expo website at http://www.drafthorseexpo.com/
Admission is $8.00 per day, or $15 for en Event Button which gives you entry to both days PLUS FREE ENTRY to all museums at the Old Montana Prison complex. (Free admission to the Expo for children under 10)
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Montana Acadamy of Living History
By admin | September 5, 2008
Register NOW for Workshops and Historic Talks
Next week sees the start of our annual Academy of Living History. Running from September 8th to 12th, the Montana Academy of Living History is dedicated to the understanding and preservation of how people lived and worked during the draft horse period of 1860s to 1930s.
The Academy provides hands-on learning opportunities as well as public seminars and programs on subjects ranging from driving and working horses in harness, historic clothing construction, wagon and buggy building and repairs, wheel setting, quilting, Dutch oven cooking and more. Evening programs include discussions of training draft horses, talks on historic trails, and presentations on early family histories.
It is no accident that historic Deer Lodge is the campus for the Academy. Living history workshops and presentations are at the Old Prison Museums and on the 1860s Grant Kohrs Ranch. Both of these venues, as well as many buildings along Main Street, are from the Draft Horse Era.
Academy activities are the week before the Big Sky Draft Horse Expo. Expo, and the unique Quilt and Carriage display provides additional learning experiences where teamsters and spectators see draft horses and mules working as they did in the past.
We hope you will attend our workshops and evening programs. Please read our catalog for information using the link below, or call (406) 846-1244 or (406)560-3586 for more info or to register.
http://www.academyoflivinghistory.com/index.html
The Montana Academy of Living History Calendar of Events |
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| September 8, 2008 | ||
| MALH - 28 |
Building & Restoration of Equine Vehicle Boxes, Hay Racks, & Bodies |
8AM - 5PM |
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| September 9, 2008 | ||
| MALH - 18 |
Driving & Working Horses in Harness w/ team or single horse |
8AM - 5PM |
| MALH - 28 |
Building & Restoration of Equine Vehicle Boxes, Hay Racks, & Bodies |
8AM - 5PM |
| MALH - 148 | Horse Whisperers, Horse Charmers and Wild Horse Tamers | 7 PM |
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| September 10, 2008 | ||
| MALH - 18 |
Driving and Working Horses in Harness using furnished team |
8AM - 5PM |
| MALH - 28 |
Building & Restoration of Equine Vehicle Boxes, Hay Racks, & Bodies |
8AM - 5PM |
| MALH 158 | Dog Days to Horse Culture | 7 PM |
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| September 11, 2008 | ||
| MALH - 18 | Driving and Working Horses in Harness | 8AM - 5PM |
| MALH - 38 | Diamond Tufting of Buggy Seats (Upholstery) | 8AM - 5PM |
| MALH - 48 | Crochet Basket | 10AM - 12AM |
| MALH - 58 |
Traditional Victorian Crazy Quilting |
1PM - 4PM |
| MALH - 168 | Spirit Tailings | 7PM |
| MALH - 188 | Low Stress Cattle Handling | 10AM - 4PM |
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| September 12, 2008 | ||
| MALH - 18 | Driving and Working Horses in Harness | 8AM - 5PM |
| MALH - 38 | Diamond Tufting of Buggy Seats (Upholstery) | 8AM - 5PM |
| MALH - 68 | Natural Animal Hide Tanning | 9AM - 3PM |
| MALH - 78 | Dutch Oven Cooking | 9AM - 1PM |
| MALH - 88 | Dressmaker’s Mannequin | 9AM - 12PM |
| MALH - 98 | Missouri Slat Bonnet | 9AM - 12PM |
| MALH - 108 | Fife and Drum Music | 2PM - 5PM |
| MALH - 118 | Introduction to Haying with Horses | 8AM - 12PM |
| MALH - 128 | Introduction to Logging with Horses | 1PM - 5PM |
| MALH - 138 | Introduction to the Western Sidesaddle | 1:30-4:30PM |
| MALH - 178 | Hot Dogs and History | 6PM |
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| September 13, 2008 | ||
| 13TH ANNUAL BIG SKY DRAFT HORSE EXPO BBQ AND MONTANA DRAFT TEAMSTER HALL OF FAME RECEPTION
Enjoy a fine beef barbeque and visit with teamsters from Draft Horse Expo. Members of the Montana Draft Teamster Hall of Fame will be on hand to tell about their work with draft horses and mules and to answer questions. Pen Convention Center |
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1886 Benz Motorwagen Replica now on display
By admin | August 15, 2008
See the Worlds first automobile at the
Montana Auto Museum
Now on display in the Visitors Center, this replica of the 1886 Benz Motorwagen is a working model recreated for the 100th Anniversary of the Daimler Benz Motor Company in 1989. Constructed from the original 1886 schematics, this vehicle is widely regarded as the first automobile, a vehicle designed to be propelled by a motor.
The original Benz Patent Motorwagen was a three wheeled vehicle with a rear-mounted engine. It was constructed of steel tubing with wooden panels, steel-spoked wheels and solid rubber tires. Steering is by way of a toothed rack that pivots the unsprung front wheel. Fully-elliptic springs are used at the back along with a live axle and drive chain on both sides. A simple belt system serves as a single-speed transmission, varying torque between an open disc and drive disc. The first Motorwagen used the Benz 954 cc single-cylinder four stroke engine which produced ⅔ hp (½ kW) at 250 rpm. It was an extremely light engine for its time, weighing about 220 lb. It has an open crankcase and drip oiling system, and uses a pushrod-operated poppet valve for the exhaust. The single-cylinder engine’s power output is stabilized by a large horizontal flywheel. The power and engine speed is regulated by an evaporative carburettor controlled by a sleeve valve.
(This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article “Benz patent Motorwagen”)
Click on the photos for larger images (hit Back to return to this page)
To watch a video of a Benz Motorwagen operating, please click on the PLAY button below (taken from the BBC TV program ‘Top Gear’)
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Free Shakepeare Performance in Deer Lodge
By admin | August 5, 2008
Paroles, played by Michael Perez with Helena, played by Abbey Siegworth
ALL’S WELL THAT ENDS WELL
by William Shakespeare
Directed by Joel Jahnke, Designed by Claudia Boddy
August 13th at 6pm in the Old Montana Prison Yard
FREE Admission
CAST
MARK KUNTZ- Company manager- ninth tour
TONYA ANDREWS- fourth tour
EDDIE BENNETT
LEAH DUTCHIN- third tour
JOE GARLOCK- second tour
SARAH LOVELAND
DANNY LUWE
MICHAEL PEREZ
CHISTOPHER PRENTICE
ABBEY SIEGWORTH- Asst. company manager- fifth tour
ALL’S WELL THAT ENDS WELL
One of the Bard’s least-produced plays, it is an exemplary counterpoint to Macbeth, one of Shakespeare’s most well-known plays.
Largely lumped into a group of plays that scholars call the “problem plays,” the problem is not with the dialogue; the problem is that the play does not fall into any neat and tidy category. All’s Well, for example,
has elements of romance and elements of comedy, but it’s neither. It has plenty of drama, but it’s not completely a serious play. It has elements of Shakespeare’s historic and tragic plays. There’s even a bit of sex farce. We don’t know what to call it. That’s the problem – but only for file clerks.
Bertram, a young braggart soldier who dreams of military greatness and who places social station above virtually everything else, sets off to serve the King of France. Simply put: he’s a snob. Beautiful Helena, a young woman who serves Bertram’s mother has fallen passionately in love with Bertram. Secretly, she follows him to Paris.
A dying king is miraculously cured by Helena, whose father was a famous physician. Overjoyed at being alive, the king allows Helena to choose anyone in the kingdom to marry and, of all people, she chooses the truculent Bertram. He is forced to consent to the marriage but decides that he would rather die in battle than stay married to Helena and so flees to Florence to fight in the Italian wars.
Playing out from that point in typical Shakespearean fashion – boy hates girl, girl is determined to get boy, boy is played for a fool, girl triumphs in the end – we’re derailed along the way with some of the Bard’s greatest comic writing in a witty, wry story that, in the end, turns out to have been a fairy tale all along.
All’s Well That Ends Well will be directed by MSIP Artistic Director JOEL JAHNKE.
Montana Shakespeare in the Parks
brings professional productions at no cost to the public to communities throughout Montana, northern Wyoming, and eastern Idaho. Remarkably self-sufficient, the touring company features 10 professional actors supported by a variety of designers and technicians who work together to bring theatre to communities that may otherwise not have access to it.
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