The StoryCorps mobile tour visited Kalispell in June this year. In this special, we hear from residents of Kalispell, Columbia Falls, Whitefish, Lakeside, Mountain Brook and the Ant Hill ranger station about what makes community in their communities.

What do Jaws, a three-year bike tour from Alaska to Argentina in the seventies and Missoula’s Adventure Cycling have in common? They’re all celebrating 50-year anniversaries, and they’re all connected to Montana.June and Greg Siple were the first cyclists to bike from Alaska to Argentina during the Hemistour Bicycling Expedition. The cascade from that three year tour changed biking in America. Listen for conversations with the Siples, Dan and Lys Burden – the Siples’ companions on the Hemistour – and Jessica Zephyrs, vice president of marketing and communication with Adventure Cycling.

This week on ‘The Write Question,’ host Lauren Korn speaks with Helena, Montana-based novelist Sally Blakely, author of ‘Friends to Lovers’ (Canary Street Press).

If any beetle was said to have an “explosive personality”, it would have to be the bombardier beetle.

This week on ‘The Write Question,’ host Lauren Korn speaks with Irish author Kevin Barry, author of ‘The Heart in Winter’ (Doubleday Books; Penguin Random House) and the featured speaker at the inaugural Festival of Irish Writing in Butte, Montana: October 3-4, 2025.

This week on ‘The Write Question,’ host Lauren Korn returns to her conversation with writer and translator Laura Marris, author of ‘The Age of Loneliness’ (Graywolf Press). This episode originally aired February 27, 2025.