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Two days of hot rods and rock & roll are coming to Lincoln this weekend as Rev Mountain Entertainment presents the Rev Mountain Car and Bike Show, July 26 and 27 at the Lincoln Rodeo Grounds. Event Promoter Shelby Brookie said the event came about to bring additional attention to Lincoln as a destination and to help the towns economy boom, with an event the locals should appreciate. "We realized there are a lot of cool cars here; there are a lot of people who love their...
Most descriptions of Stuart Ian Frost's work sound like a narrative of the very idea upon which Blackfoot Pathway's: Sculpture in the Wild itself was founded: site specific sculptures related to a specific environment that are rooted in the history and culture of the area. Frost, is one of two artists slated to create new artwork at Sculpture in the Wild in September. He visited Lincoln at the end of June to get acquainted with Lincoln, the sculpture park, the area and its flo...
The Back Adit Band Kicked off the Blackfoot Pathways: Sculpture in the Wild summer concert Series on the Fourth of July....
Music is back on the slate this year at Blackfoot Pathways: Sculpture in the Wild with series of free weekly concerts in the Delaney Mill TeePee Burner beginning on the Fourth of July. Last year Sculpture in the Wild added music to its annual September artistic offerings, with Composer-in-Residence Adele O'Dwyer curating a series of concerts culminating in a Cafe Music Night Fundraiser. This year, the music moves to the sculpture park every Thursday evening, with a series of...
The Lewis and Clark County Heritage Tourism Council honored Kevin O'Dwyer and Blackfoot Pathways: Sculpture in the Wild this week with a 2019 Historic Preservation Award for O'Dwyer's "Montana Memory: Re-Imagining the Delaney Sawmill TeePee Burner." The TeePee Burner is the last major remnant of the Delaney Sawmill and served as the inspiration for the development of Sculpture in the Wild just east of Lincoln. "One of our members nominated it for the award. A bunch of us had b...
Blackfoot Pathways: Sculpture in the Wild will be hosting a series of two-hour tours next week in hopes of increasing local knowledge about the sculpture park, the artwork there and how it benefits the community. "As a board, we've been talking about this for quite some time, that we need to figure out a way to let as many people in Lincoln as we can - business owners and their employees - know more about Sculpture in the Wild. Just to have them tour it and let them know it's...
The Lincoln Junior High and High School music students showed off their talent at the Spring Concert at the Lincoln Methodist Church Wednesday, May 22. The spring concert is the third school concert held at the Methodist Church, which is now also home to a grand piano donated to the communty last fall by Sculpture in the Wild. Lincoln Schools music teacher Melissa Gilbert said the space at the church is better suited to musical performances than the school gym, which she said...
In a nod to Blackfoot Pathways: Sculpture in the Wild's cultural and economic impact, the Montana Office of Tourism and Business Development recently awarded the sculpture park their Heritage and Cultural Tourism award. In the award's wake, local business owners reflected on the park's impact on tourism commerce in Lincoln. Laurie Richards, who owns the Wheel Inn Bar, provides BPSW brochures on the tables in her business and often steers travelers to Sculpture in the Wild....
Last week's meeting of the Lincoln Valley Chamber of Commerce delved into several topics that could impact Lincolns economic future, including Sculpture in the Wild, a plan to provide Lincoln with more say on management of the surrounding National Forest, and the Lincoln Bike Rally. Blackfoot Pathways: Sculpture in the Wild President Becky Garland kicked off the agenda with an update on the organization's plans for this year. Those include a concert series and a Shakespeare...
Blackfoot Pathways: Sculpture in the Wild earned recognition as the winner of Montana's 2019 Heritage and Cultural Tourism award. The Montana Office of Tourism and Business Development announced the award at the Governor's Conference on Tourism & Recreation in Butte Monday night, April 15. Sculpture in the Wild faced competition for the prize from the Archie Bray Foundation in Helena and Libby's Kootenai Country Montana Chainsaw Carving Championship. "We know Sculpture in the...
Last week's meeting of the Lincoln Valley Chamber of Commerce delved into several topics that could impact Lincolns economic future, including Sculpture in the Wild, a plan to provide Lincoln with more say on management of the surrounding National Forest, and the Lincoln Bike Rally. Blackfoot Pathways: Sculpture in the Wild President Becky Garland kicked off the agenda with an update on the organization's plans for this year. Those include a concert series and a Shakespeare...
Blackfoot Pathways: Sculpture in the Wild has been chosen as one of three finalists up to receive a Montana Tourism Award in the category of Heritage and Cultural Tourism. Nominated alongside Sculpture in the Wild are Helena’s Archie Bray Foundation and the Kootenai Country Montana Chainsaw Carving Championship. Visitors and friends of Sculpture in the Wild nominated the park, and BPSW President Becky Garland said board members were notified of the park’s selection as a finalist last week. She said she hopes several boa...
It's about 10 a.m. Monday morning as I write this, and things seem off kilter. The snowstorm that has finally blanketed Lincoln with much-needed snow continues outside, but something, or rather someone, is missing. It's at about this time on most Mondays that Bill Frisbee would stop in. Today, it would probably be to take a quick break from clearing parking lots of snow, but most times it was just to chat with my wife, Erin. Sometimes it was about projects or events they were...
A survey funded by the Montana Office of Tourism and Business Development gathered insights last fall into the demographics, local spending and perception of Blackfoot Pathways: Sculpture in the Wild by out-of-area visitors. The survey, developed by the University of Montana's Institute for Tourism and Recreation Research and administered by BPSW Board members and volunteers during the artist residency in September, surveyed 397 sculpture park guests. It provides some of the...
Fans of this years Blackfoot Pathways: Sculpture in the Wild concert series who missed out on the debut of composer-in-residence Adele O'Dwyer's "Songs for the Blackfoot Pathways" in September can now watch the performance online. Starret Artists of Stevensville recorded the performance and recently completed the final edit of their video footage of the performance and posted it to the video sharing website Vimeo at https://vimeo.com/298453602. O'Dwyer, joined by violinist...
Trails, traffic, tourism and teamwork were all topics of discussion as Lt. Gov. Mike Cooney sat down with Lincoln stakeholders and Main Street Montana Rural Partners Monday, Oct. 22. Administered by the Community Development Division of the Montana Office of Tourism, Main Street Montana helps communities revitalize and preserve their historic downtowns by uniting community ideas and efforts with program organization and resources. Focusing on economic development, urban...
The Alpine Artisan's Tour of the Arts returned to Lincoln last weekend as the Lincoln Art Haus Co-op once again hosted an exhibition and sale of their artwork at the Community Hall. Annie Allen, founder of the co-op, said the growing organization now has nine members, including new member Tammy Jordan, a fiber artiss who recently returned to Lincoln. Only one member of the co-op, Steve Woodhouse missed the tour this year, but they invited Margaret Rose Chiltwood, a visiting ar...
A Kawai grand piano purchased by Blackfoot Pathways: Sculpture in the Wild and intended for the use of the community and the park has taken up residence at the Methodist church. BPSW President Becky Garland said the park decided to put rental costs to good use by purchasing a fine instrument that could be used by Lincoln School students as well as by the sculpture park and the community at large. Garland said pianist Phil Aaberg, who was a featured artist in several of this...
A listening session to discuss and take comments on a potential Rural Improvement District that would cover the cost of applying dust control to the 4x4 Road filled the meeting room at the Lincoln Library for the monthly Lewis and Clark County Commission meeting last Friday. A 4x4 Road RID has been in the works for several months, but suffered a setback in August when Commissioners denied the request to form the district after learning the boundary included a parcel of state...
The Montana Office of Tourism and the University of Montana are collaborating with Blackfoot Pathways: Sculpture in the Wild to gather data about who visits the sculpture park, and BPSW board members and volunteers were on hand during September's residency to distribute questionnaires to park visitors. Funded by the Montana Office of Tourism to gather information on park visitors, the length of their stay, what services they use and where they spend their money, the surveys...
New Installations at Blackfoot Pathways: Sculpture in the Wild...
Autumn colors create a warm frame for Steve Siegel's megalithic newspaper sculpture 'Hill and Valley,' one of the original sculptures created at Sculpture in the Wild in 2014....
The Lincoln Community Hall was filled wall-to-wall last Thursday night for the Lincoln Youth Concert, a collaboration between the Lincoln School choir and band programs and the Blackfoot Pathways: Sculpture in the Wild concert series. An estimated 180 parents and community members packed the hall as 90 Lincoln students ranging from kindergarten to high school seniors joined BPSW Composer-in-residence Adele O'Dwyer, Violist Aoise O'Dwyer, violinist Marvin Suson, and pianist...
Composer Adele O'Dwyer wrapped up her 2018 stint as Blackfoot Pathways: Sculpture in the Wild Composer in Residence with a final concert Friday, Sept 28. The concert at the Lincoln Community Hall featured original musical compositions by O'Dwyer performed by internationally renowned musicians in front of a backdrop of artwork by local students and was attended by more than 100 community members and BPSW supporters. O'Dwyer said she spent several months in preparation for the...
Blackfoot Pathways: Sculpture in the Wild welcomed fall with Festival in the Wild 2018, a weekend program of events and music celebrating the sculpture park's fifth anniversary. The festival kicked off with a sold-out café music night and fundraiser art auction at the Lincoln Community Hall. The event featured refreshments in a candlelit café style ambiance accompanied by live music from performing artists Phil Aaberg, Pan Morigan, Marvin Suson, Aoise O'Dwyer and BPSW C...
