"I hiked around town, the air sweet and dry, and was sort of overwhelmed by the perfection of it -- the old courthouse, the train depot, Mount [Jumbo] and Mount Sentinel rising up, the neon bars, the funky festivity of a college town ...."
-- Garrison Keillor
There are 3.1 million acres of wilderness within a 100-mile radius of campus.
-- Garrison Keillor
There are 3.1 million acres of wilderness within a 100-mile radius of campus.
"I’m in love with Montana. For other states I have admiration, respect, recognition, even some affection. But with Montana it is love. And it’s difficult to analyze love when you’re in it."
--John Steinbeck, "Travels with Charley"
"John Updike once called Missoula the Paris of the Nineties, because of the city’s legendary population of writers, but Paris lacks three world-renowned trout rivers and proximity to Glacier and Yellowstone National Parks."
--Outside Magazine
"Missoula -- it’s Montana, but it has feng shui and herbal tea."
-- Garrison Keillor, in the Missoulian
"Missoula ruins so many careers. People visit, and then throw everything away just so they can stay."
--Best-selling author James Lee Burke, in Men’s Journal
"Montana is the only state with a triple divide allowing water to flow into the Pacific, Atlantic and Hudson Bay. This phenomenon occurs at Triple Divide Peak in Glacier National Park."
–- 50states.com
(Sounds good...)
--John Steinbeck, "Travels with Charley"
"John Updike once called Missoula the Paris of the Nineties, because of the city’s legendary population of writers, but Paris lacks three world-renowned trout rivers and proximity to Glacier and Yellowstone National Parks."
--Outside Magazine
"Missoula -- it’s Montana, but it has feng shui and herbal tea."
-- Garrison Keillor, in the Missoulian
"Missoula ruins so many careers. People visit, and then throw everything away just so they can stay."
--Best-selling author James Lee Burke, in Men’s Journal
"Montana is the only state with a triple divide allowing water to flow into the Pacific, Atlantic and Hudson Bay. This phenomenon occurs at Triple Divide Peak in Glacier National Park."
–- 50states.com
"No. 11 small place for business and careers."
--Forbes Magazine, about Missoula
--Forbes Magazine, about Missoula
"No. 2 among small cities."
--Inc. Magazine, about Missoula in "Top 25 Places For Doing Business in America"
--Inc. Magazine, about Missoula in "Top 25 Places For Doing Business in America"
(Sounds good...)
3 comments:
I have NO idea why my brain leaped to the conclusion that Garrison attended college in MT from reading you opening lines, I have no idea whatsoever...it is one of those mysterious brain synapse connections/disconnections I have no control over and frustrate me quite often.
Everyone knows he went to the University of Minnesota.
Good day -
Ed
So my original post got over-written? or something...? And I obsess over these things so I must respond AGAIN!
Forget the Keillor thing!
I read "Travels With Charley" when I was like 10 or 11. I must revisit that book.
Magazines that shout "Best LITTLE town...blah, blah" annoy me a lot! They are a menace!
So maybe we'll visit, and ruin our careers, eh...?
Ed
Too funny. Don't worry, I disregard most of what you say anyway...
the # Whatever town for Whatever, stuff annoys me too, I just thought it was funny, cause I'm going to try to get in-state tuition for D's second year by claiming that my business's presence represents our desire to be permanent state residents, and that we're not just there for D's schoolin'.
Oh - and another good Keillor Quote -
"The residents of Missoula are so literate, the have bumper stickers that say 'I brake for creative nonfiction'."
All I have to say it - Come visit us to ruin your careers, stay for the skiing :)
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