Keep your eyes open at dusk in Northwestern Montana! I caught a slight movement ahead and slowed down, just as the smallish Whitetail Deer crossed in front of me. The days are hot, and will stay hot for the time being. The nights are cool enough to sleep soundly, though.

DANCE at the Hole In The Wall: Theater X-Net

Starring: Ida Rubinstein Belle Epoch Russian/Parisian beauty.
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In The Community: Arts In The Park is going full-blast now -- it's an annual fundraising open-air art show for The Hockaday Museum of Art. The Glacier Rod Run -- an annual antique car rally held their spectacular parade down Main Street this morning as well. Our director was over at Herron Park watching horse-jumping this morning before she came to work. I met her newly-arrived foreign exchange student Pierre-Louis when they arrived at Depot Park, and by the longest of odds he happens to live in the Bourbonaise region of France -- which is where I am going to work with Footsbarn Theatre again for three weeks, starting this Thursday.

Media Watch: Young and Innocent, and The 39 Steps on TCM last night -- two English movies by Alfred Hitchcock, before David O. Selznick lured him to America in the late 30's. The former movie was supposed to be in Cornwall, but there were only one or two scenes that remotely looked like the place where I spent a wonderful year of my life working with Footsbarn Theatre when they were located there. (Phonyness is not a Hollywood monopoly.)

La Chaussee in Central France during Footsbarn Theatre's 25th Anniversary Celebration 10 years ago.

(Inset) The hedgerows of Cornwall where I worked with Footsbarn Theatre in the 70's - Trewen, our home base, was about 1 km up that hill you see from where I took this photo.