Drumlummon Institute Launches Online Journal of Montana Culture

The new cultural nonprofit, Drumlummon Institute, Helena, Montana, has launched Drumlummon Views, an online journal of Montana arts and culture (www.drumlummon.org). Longtime Montana editor and writer Rick Newby serves as the journal’s editor-in-chief.

(PRWEB) July 20, 2006 -- The new cultural nonprofit, Drumlummon Institute, Helena, Montana, has launched Drumlummon Views, an online journal of Montana arts and culture (www.drumlummon.org). Longtime Montana editor and writer Rick Newby serves as the journal’s editor-in-chief.
    
The first issue of Drumlummon Views showcases fiction by novelists Deirdre McNamer and Matt Pavelich, poetry by Melissa Kwasny, and black-and-white photographs of modern-day Butte by David Spear. The issue also includes essays on Montana architecture and design, literature, film, folklife, food, and painters, sculptors, and photographers. Of special interest are a heavily illustrated essay on Helena’s elegant Montana Club and its design by nationally known architect Cass Gilbert; an essay on Montana’s first Poet Laureate, Sandra Alcosser; and an article about the mining ghost town of Marysville and its folklore.
    
The DV “From the Archives” section offers a lively memoir by a woman who homesteaded alone near Billings in 1915, and poems by important mid-twentieth-century Montana writers Frieda Fligelman and Grace Stone Coates. The issue also includes reviews of Montana books, exhibitions, and performances, as well as an “In Memoriam” section that honors Montana culture-bearers, including recently deceased artists, historians, and spiritual leaders.
    
“We’re eager to stimulate conversation about Montana’s vital arts scene,” says Rick Newby. “We want to showcase our richly textured culture and, at the same time, take an in-depth, truly critical look at all this richness. We will not shrink from controversy and divergent viewpoints. Most of all, we hope the journal will afford its readers, both inside and outside Montana, a more nuanced understanding of our place in the world.”
    
To reach DV, go to the Drumlummon Institute home page, www.drumlummon.org and click on Drumlummon Views.

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