Caring for Our Communities and Serving Our People Hot Springs, Montana, is tucked away between the beautiful Salish and Cabinet Mountain ranges in western Montana on the Flathead Reservation of the Confederated Salish, Kootenai, and Pend D’Oreille peoples. Many of the residents in this tiny community of 500+ people are local Salish/Kootenai tribal members. Others […]
Storming Forward
Storming Forward “Living in Emmetsburg feels like I’m in the middle of a Normal Rockwell painting, just add in a couple leprechauns,” says one area resident. From a bustling downtown touting turn-of-the century architecture and well-preserved historic homes to welcoming smiles and scents from the local bakery, Emmetsburg, Iowa, provides a nostalgic backdrop of quintessential […]
Pointe of Joy Performing Arts Studio
At the age of seven, Lora Jane Hyden knew she wanted to be a dancer. That’s when she got to take her first and only year of dance classes as a child, growing up in Eastern Kentucky. The single year of classes (singular thanks to the unpredictable coal mining industry from which her parents drew […]
Wild Thang Farm
Ashland, Missouri “What’s that wild thang growin’ on the side of the road?” It was the question Mimo Davis fielded most frequently from customers during the four years she worked at a wild flower nursery. It’s chicory, a slender blue flower that only blooms for a day… It’s butterfly weed, a flat orange fan flower, […]
