Museums, History, and Doom

Museums, History, and Doom

Pat Stuart  Newspaper Columns MUSEUMS, HISTORY, and Doom Powell Tribune, 16 January 2020 “Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it.” It’s a great phrase and came to mind because I’ve talked to too many people who’ve never been inside our local historical...
Retooling

Retooling

Pat Stuart Newspaper Columns RETOOLING for Our New World Powell Tribune, 14 December 2019   Grim news from the local employment front … The closing of Shopko and Cody Labs, not to mention the layoffs and position reductions at Northwest College, focuses my...
Who Could Ask for More

Who Could Ask for More

Pat Stuart Newspaper Columns WHO COULD ASK FOR MORE – Libraries and Social Capital Powell Tribune, 5 December 2019 I’ve been wandering in memory land, recalling communities where I’ve lived in various countries and what made them particularly livable, trying to...
What Really Makes Us Great

What Really Makes Us Great

Pat Stuart Books and Columns   What Really Makes Us Great by Pat Stuart Powell Tribune, 31 October 2019 Ask a foreign student from central Asia what impression he has of our community, as one of my friends did recently, and the response was both insightful and...
Mind Bugs in the Equality State

Mind Bugs in the Equality State

Pat Stuart Books and Columns Mind Bugs in the Equality State Powell Tribune,  29 June 2019 We’re the “Equality State,” a name evoked often this year as we look back on 150 years of women having the vote. Me, I love the name, the concept of equality and the challenges...
Travel – The New Normal

Travel – The New Normal

Pat Stuart Books and Columns Travel:  That New Normal by Pat Stuart Living in Park County once meant … well, living in Park County.  We had our homes here, our employment here, our schools, recreation, and vacations here.  If we left at all, it was to visit...