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Malcolm Five Star Member
Number of posts : 1504 Registration date : 2008-01-11 Location : Georgia
| Subject: 100 Years, 100 Stories Mon Jul 06, 2009 8:58 am | |
| Next year, the National Park Service will publish a book called "100 years, 100 Stories" as part of its celebration of Glacier National Park's 100th anniversary.
I'm happy to say that it will include a short piece of mine about the first day of the 1964 Montana flood as viewed from the perspective of those carrying furniture out of the lake level rooms of a flooded hotel.
At the time, the flood was viewed as the worst in Montana's history--it still may be the worst. In a pre-CNN, pre-cell-phone world, most of us were isolated and were dealing with the problems around us and had no idea how widespread the destruction was until we read about it in the newspaper many weeks after the fact.
Even though the road, our water and our power were knocked out and the flooded place quickly turned into a sea of mud when the water receded, we opened on time with a large convention. That was one of my more interesting experiences.
Malcolm |
| | | Dick Stodghill Five Star Member
Number of posts : 3795 Registration date : 2008-05-04 Age : 98 Location : Akron, Ohio
| Subject: Re: 100 Years, 100 Stories Mon Jul 06, 2009 10:00 am | |
| Interesting, yes. But was it fun? The story should add a lively episode to the book. How did you manage to get from Montana to Georgia? Quite a change. |
| | | Shelagh Admin
Number of posts : 12662 Registration date : 2008-01-11 Location : UK
| Subject: Re: 100 Years, 100 Stories Mon Jul 06, 2009 10:08 am | |
| Sounds good, Malcolm. Wish I'd known about it sooner -- I might have submitted a piece! |
| | | Malcolm Five Star Member
Number of posts : 1504 Registration date : 2008-01-11 Location : Georgia
| Subject: Re: 100 Years, 100 Stories Mon Jul 06, 2009 10:12 am | |
| Going all the way back to the years when the Great Northern Railway (long since merged into the Burlington Northern Santa Fe) built and ran the hotels in Glacier Park, there has been a tradition there of using a lot of seasonal help.
Much of the staff--bellmen, maids, bus drivers, kitchen help, etc--is supplied by college students from all over the country. I heard about the tradition because people from Florida State University who were in the hotel restaurant management program went out there every year. I was in radio/TV writing and production and thought I need a summer away from the books. The hotel students, of course, got credit for the experience while I just got the experience.
I worked as a bellman at the hotel (Many Glacier) for two summers and happened to be there when the rains came.
Malcolm |
| | | Malcolm Five Star Member
Number of posts : 1504 Registration date : 2008-01-11 Location : Georgia
| Subject: Re: 100 Years, 100 Stories Mon Jul 06, 2009 10:15 am | |
| I didn't hear about it until the last minute and almost didn't get my article in. Other than Montana media, the submissions were basically only visible on the Glacier National Park website and a companion centennial site.
Malcolm |
| | | Abe F. March Five Star Member
Number of posts : 10768 Registration date : 2008-01-26 Age : 85 Location : Germany
| Subject: Re: 100 Years, 100 Stories Mon Jul 06, 2009 11:25 am | |
| Sounds good Malcolm. Glad you didn't miss the deadline. |
| | | Malcolm Five Star Member
Number of posts : 1504 Registration date : 2008-01-11 Location : Georgia
| Subject: Re: 100 Years, 100 Stories Mon Jul 06, 2009 11:51 am | |
| Me, too Abe.
Thanks.
Malcolm |
| | | zadaconnaway Five Star Member
Number of posts : 4017 Registration date : 2008-01-16 Age : 76 Location : Washington, USA
| Subject: Re: 100 Years, 100 Stories Tue Jul 07, 2009 6:25 am | |
| Congratulations on getting your story in, Malcolm. |
| | | Malcolm Five Star Member
Number of posts : 1504 Registration date : 2008-01-11 Location : Georgia
| Subject: Re: 100 Years, 100 Stories Tue Jul 07, 2009 9:40 am | |
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