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= Where we got our information =

INFORMATION

1. For the earthquake and school history, the Kindergarteners conducted primary research by hearing from eyewitnesses Kathy and Tom Miller and Leoti Wade.

2. The first-graders have begun a walking tour of our neighborhood by investigating the older houses. Our information about those houses came from reverse directories at the Montana Historical Society Research Center. The 1890 reverse directory was created by an MHS employee using physical cut and paste. The 1920 reverse directory is by Polk.

3. The Helena landmarks group benefited from a Power Point presentation by Ellen Baumler, Interpretative Historian, MHS.

4. The Broadwater Hotel group visited the site of the Broadwater Hotel on a tour led by Patricia Spencer of the Lewis and Clark Library and author of //Helena, Montana: the Queen City of the Rockies and the Broadwater Hotel.//

5, 6, 7, 8. - The fourth and fifth graders accessed selected articles on the MHS Online Resources site. These links are collected at [].

IMAGES

We are indebted to Ellen Baumler, Patricia Spencer, and the Montana Historical Society for many of our images. Helena As She Was, [], is another great source. Our generic historic images are from Creative Commons, [], which guides us to copyright-free images.

ANECDOTES: Some of our neighbors and friends supplied personal memories or told us of information passed down through their families. For instance, did you know that the house across from the school was a grocery store? Someone's uncle remembers that the school bus used to stop in front of the store so that the kids could run in and buy a treat. Others assert that country singer Charley Pride lived in the neighborhood. Someone knows someone who worked with him at ASARCO in East Helena. It is a storied neighborhood!