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"I never knew a town could die and people would keep on living there."..."Kind of like ghosts, huh?" Sam said and laughed ..."Be careful you don't turn into a ghost while you're here." -Stanley Gordon West, 'Blind Your Ponies'
This house is on the very south eastern edge of the ghost town of Galata, Montana. It sits by its self overlooking the rail road tracks. Through the upstairs window there are some water stained tin tiles lining the walls. I would love to see inside this place.
This is Galata, Montana. It is almost a complete ghost town. There really are no more businesses open. Only a few homes are still lived in. This town has an interesting history and there are so many abandoned buildings that I would love to know the story behind.
Here is a video from when I drove through this great ghost town:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0R55_f-ndA
"Galata, east of Shelby, is near Willow Creek, one of the streams that flows into the reservoir created by Tiber Dam. It was a trading point and cattle shipping station on the Great Northern’s High Line. In 1901 David R. McGinnis, first immigration agent of the Great Northern Railroad, was so impressed by the beauty of the spot that he filed a claim for the land near the railroad where it crossed dry Galata Creek. McGinnis hired a surveyor to lay out a town and the following year brought carpenters and lumber from Kalispell to build a two-room house.
Cattlemen from the Marias River ranges brought their cattle to Galata for shipment to eastern markets. On cold winter days they were glad to have the protection of the two little rooms in the only building in “town.” The house burned down in 1904, but in 1905 McGinnis began rebuilding Galata. He built a two-room real estate office and an eight-room hotel, and eventually induced a storekeeper to set up shop in one of the rooms of the real estate office. Ranches would drive in with a chuckwagon and load up on $500—sometimes even $1,000—worth of supplies, pay in cash and return home for the long winter. After a few years, Galata’s only merchant closed shop and the hotel was abandoned; McGinnis gave up his dream of a town and moved to Kalispell.
One day he was surprised to receive a check in the mail. It was marked “back rent,” and was from a cowhand who had moved into the deserted Galata store and had done a good business with dryland farmers who were then settling on the old-time open range. By 1910 Galata had four lumberyards and five store. (from Cheney’s Names on the Face of Montana, Mountain Press Publishing Company)
Near Galata, residents and visitors can enjoy one of the most versatile recreational areas in Montana, Tiber Dam-Lake Elwell. The lake provides excellent year-round angling for Walleye, Northern and Sauger Pike, native trout, Ling, Perch and others. Some may want to try their hand at bow fishing for carp that often exceed 20 pounds. For boaters and swimmers the area boasts over 50 miles of shoreline, a marina, and four well-maintained boat ramps located strategically around the lake. There are also numerous campground areas.
While you're at Tiber you'll observe spectacular windblown sandstone formations, Indian rings, and one of the largest earthen dikes in the world! The area surrounding Tiber contains excellent hunting, and a unique birdwatching area is located along the Marias River below Tiber Dam." -Montana's Russell Country Website
This is a great article, just scroll town to the one titled “Caught between two worlds, one dead, the other struggling to be born.”
www.montanaheritageproject.org/index.php/fieldnotes/C77/
This is a link to a neat photo taken near Galata many, many years ago:
Even prettier in person. Seen here with my 10-year-old Space Pen, a General's Kimberlin 9xxB and my favorite brass sharpener. www.pragmatik.org/blog
This box came with hankies in it a few years ago. I just realized a few weeks ago that it fits pencils perfectly.
(Those summer Field Notes are all full and archived now.)
" love my new Nordic Side Effect! Love the color combo with solar, love the contrast with the Ultraviolet interior of my Large Cafe Bag, love the way it holds all of the bits and bobs in a tidy contained way while still being flexible...squishable, if you will. That is the one big bonus I find between the Dyneema version of this bag and the Ballistic. Both are solid, durable, well-serving, bags...but I like the give that the Dyneema has. It easily holds what you see in the picture--Which includes a pencil pouch with four writing instruments and a small leather cover with two Fieldnotes notebooks inside. My phone is also usually in there along with a granola bar as well. Pop that puppy into the LCB with lunch, a book, and my students' papers, and voila, streamlined awesomeness. " --KmK
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Outgoing notes include:
Agnès Varda on Martin Scorsese's AFTER HOURS
Jean-Pierre Melville's LE SAMOURAÏ
The 180° rule
Calques, Loan Translation and Phono-Semantic Matching
Henry David Thoreau on October
Boat Names
Sonder
Necropants
Degloving
Walter Hill; Vincent van Gogh; Charlie Parker; H.G. Wells; Kurt Vonnegut; Rachel Carson; Miles Davis
It always happens to me when I am about to finish a notebook, I am waiting on another shipment to arrive before I start a fresh one.
I have wanted to use this one for a while but I wasn't able to get a photo I was really happy with. Until now.
I set the notebook up under one of the halogen lights on my kitchen counter. I ended up moving it backwards out of the spotlight and used a silver reflector to bounce the light back onto the notebook.
You can see the Christmas tree with the white lights behind on the counter. Originally, I only had them on the small tree to the right of the notebook. I later pulled out my plaster "D" and moved some of the lights over there on the left to create a small back-light effect.
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(Waiting room.)
Blog: sharonfrost.typepad.com/day_books
6 1/2 x 6 in double page spread; ballpoint, fountain pen on Field Notes. Lamy Safai EF
Dejé mi cuaderno de bocetos en el escáner, así que tuve que hacer este en mi agenda y pegarlo. (I left my sketchbook in the scanner, so I had to do this one in my agenda and glue it down.)
#waitingrooms #sharonfrost #urbansketchers #journals #drawings
The science illustrator worked late and latterly on lost species found on clandestine forays into countries that the doors were locked forever and a day. They were here greatest love.
Sketchbook, Formulas, Fold Defy, Over **The dates have been moved to suit the series not the timeframe.
Very excited that this little guy arrived in the mail yesterday morning! I can't wait to start writing all kinds of stuff down!
I picked up some Field Notes for Rich for his birthday, resulting in another Field Notes convert. He said he likes their back-pocket size and portability.
I think Field Notes needs to design a used-Field Notes carrier. Something that we can use to display our completed notebooks on our bookshelf.
Notes and description of specimens collected on the Philippine Expedition of the Steamer Albatross, circa 1908
1908
UNICEF Ambassador Lucy Liu is blogging from the Democratic Republic of Congo. Read her first post here: fieldnotes.unicefusa.org/2007/06/in_the_field_lucy_liu_re... (credit David McKenzie).
washed the jeans i wore for the last two weeks, which were quite dirty. the contents of said jeans ended up in a pile on the coffee table so i took a picture.
I failed to find either a "real" shop that sold Midori Travel Notebooks, or an online one with a brown one in stock. Nada. I found this Labrador travel wallet ( www.labradorfactory.net/ , also from Thailand!), that's made for folded A4 papers, and perfectly fits the Travel Notebook version of Chronodex. So I modded it, or Midori'd it, if you like. Still have to find the right size elastic, but a bit of string is doing the job of holding Chronodex in place just fine! What do you think about the leather "latch"? (as opposed to Midori's elastic?) Pictured here with my Retro51 ball pen.
And I have a cat. Not a dog. Just to be clear, for K9 accompanied visitors.
Finally found a good use for my Field Notes, documenting notes for team meetings and active projects with Mule.
UNICEF Ambasaador Clay Aiken met with Nasrin in Afghanistan. She is 11 and is in school with 1,050 other girls. There are only 16 teachers. The community urgently needs funds to train teachers so more kids can attend classes.
Visit fieldnotes.unicefusa.org to learn more.
PHOTO: US Fund for UNICEF
Notes and description of specimens collected on the Philippine Expedition of the Steamer Albatross, circa 1908
1908
New Field Notes day is like new computer day. Which is like new bike day. Which is kind of like new jeans day. New days are the best days of all the days.
This time, I'm starting the special edition from SVA's MFA in Interaction Design. Thanks to Liz and Qing Qing from SVA for the special Field Notes. Can't wait to fill this one up.