New Spring into the Past festival a rousing success for MAT

Hundreds of people took a trip into yesteryear Friday and Saturday when Montana Actors' Theatre held if first Spring into the Past festival in the Montana State University-Northern Student Union Building.

"This was an ambitious project at best and then we had a lot of curve balls thrown at us with the weather," said MAT member Morgaine Lomayesva, one of the organizers of the event.

More than 300 people attended the two-day event.

MAT originally planned to hold the festival, which ended with performances of MAT's production of "Cyrano de Bergerac," in the amphitheater behind Pershing Hall...