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Dinosaurs, weddings, lookouts and wolves

Hungry Horse News | Hagadone News Network | UPDATED 12 years, 3 months AGO
by Hungry Horse News
| January 3, 2013 9:48 AM

Dinosaurs, Montana weddings, lookouts and wolves are the topics of the 2013 John White speaker series at the Museum at Central School, 124 Second Avenue East, in Kalispell.

The series honors John White, who worked as a custodian for more than 30 years at the museum. The son of a Texas slave, White graduated from Flathead High School in 1922 and lived and worked in Kalispell for most of the rest of his life.

The lecture series kicks off Sunday, Jan. 13, and continues every other Sunday through February at 2:30 p.m.

• Jan. 13 — Montana paleontologist and fossil hunter David Trexler, author of “Becoming Dinosaurs,” will talk about climate change from the perspective of the entire 4.55 billion years of Earth’s history.

• Jan. 27 — Montana Historical Society specialist Martha Kohl will talk about “I Do: A Cultural History of Montana Weddings.” Her presentation will be augmented by the Montana Historical Society’s traveling exhibit “I Do,” which will be at the museum from Jan. 14 through the end of February.

• Feb. 10 — Leif Haugen, who worked as a mountain-top fire lookout for 18 years will talk about his experiences. The award-winning documentary short film “The Lookout,” which is about him, will open the presentation.

• Feb. 24 — Cristina Eisenberg, who ha a doctorate in forestry and wildlife and is the author of “The Wolf’s Tooth,” will talk about her research on the ecological effect of wolves and fire in Rocky mountain ecosystems.

Tickets for the public are $9 for a single event or $30 for the series, available at the museum. For more information, call 756-8381. These events sometimes sell out.

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