Library hosting 'Homestead Dreams' Monday

Press release

The Havre-Hill County Library will host Montana Conversations program “Homestead Dreams: From High Hopes to Lingering Legacy” with storyteller Hal Stearns Monday.

The program will be at the Havre-Hill County Library at 7 pm. The presentation is free and open to the public.

Hal Stearns describes the American West’s last great agricultural land rush and what followed, illustrating his talk with a myriad of signs left on the landscape. Montana has always been a state marked by boom and bust — the fur trade, cattle on the open range, the gold and silver, coal and oil...