Local historian connects past with our future

The sixth-grade Montana history classes at Havre Middle School got a crash course in archaeology from former history teacher Jima Magera.

From Monday to Wednesday, Magera had been bringing in his own personal collection of Native American artifacts and sharing them with the students of HMS.

Magera taught for 45 years and 31 of those years were in Havre, he said. He started in Box Elder and taught there for a few years. It took Magera some time before he became a history teacher for the Havre school district. He said he started of as a physical education teacher and basketball coach first...