Get in on Bozeman Commuter Challenge he Bozeman incorporated into the statewide Challenge, May while contributing to a cleaner environ- Twitter pages — Commuter Project which will run from May 1st–31st. ment, a healthy dose of activity into your www.facebook.com/BznCommute and at Western Commuters on teams at Bozeman work- day, and lower transportation costs. Learn www.twitter.com/BznCommute. Transportation places will be able to log their miles at more and register at the web address Bozeman Commuter Project is all about Institute presents www.mtcommuterchallenge.org and compete provided above. expanding transportation options for com- Bozeman’s 6th both statewide and locally. Participants of Also keep an eye out for events during muters and residents of the Bozeman area. annual Commuter the Bozeman Challenge will be eligible to Bike Week, May 15th-19th. Bike commuters The Project’s goals are to increase the con- Challenge. This win some great prizes from local coffeeshops, can score free coffee and treats on their way venience, benefits, safety, and incentives asso- is a friendly eateries, and retailers. The Bozeman to work at locations around town from ciated with taking the bus, car sharing, walk- month-long com- Challenge is open to anyone working in the 7–9am, and $1 off pints of local beer at par- ing, biking, vanpooling, or any combination petition between Bozeman area and there is no cost to enter. ticipating breweries from 5–7pm. Check out of those in your commute. As Bozeman’s Bozeman businesses and organizations to log Nearly 300 participants and 46 teams www.gallatinvalleybicycleclub.org for more population booms, Bozeman Commuter the most commutes to and from work by have logged over 14,500 miles in one month information! Further details and updates Project aims to encourage transportation bicycle, walking, or public transportation during past Challenges, and event promoters about Bike, Walk, Bus Month events and the options that are economically efficient, envi- during May. hope to see those miles keep adding up this Commuter Challenge can be found on ronmentally sustainable, and make the best TBozeman’s Commuter Challenge will be year! Get creative with your commute this Bozeman Commuter Project’s Facebook and use of our surrounding spaces. • Contents Mother's Day . .2A Best of BoZeman . .3A Calendar . .4-5A Community . .6A Film/Theatre . .7A Community/Dance . .8A EcoZone . .B RollingZone . .C Mother’s Day Brunch All for One & ART for All! EndZone . .D Celebrate Mother’s Day Rockin’TJ Ranch Lounges: 5/4 Ale Works 5-8pm Bi$Zone . .4D Blacksmith Italian May 14th 9-2pm May 14th 4-8pm Rocking R Bar 5/5 11am-3pm ­Page 2a­•­The BoZone •­May 1,­2017 May readings at Elk Meet the author at Country Bookshelf Country American to stand on top River books Bookshelf in of the world. He returned Downtown home a hero. My Old Man Elk River Arts & Lectures will Humanities Montana’s Hometown Bozeman — and the Mountain is Leif present a pair of free readings in the Humanities program, in which the Montana’s Whittaker’s engaging and coming weeks. Here’s a look at the organization sponsored more than largest inde- humorous story of what it events set to unfold in Livingston. 30 humanities-related events pendent was like to “grow up Painter, sculptor, and rancher throughout the community. bookstore Whittaker,” the youngest Ted Waddell will read from and David Thomas grew up on the since 1957 — son of Jim Whittaker and talk about a new retrospective of his Hi-Line, graduated from the has an excit- Diane Whittaker, and an work, Theodore Waddell: My Montana, University of Montana, then found ing slate of extended family of on Friday, May 12th at 7pm. himself on the streets of San upcoming accomplished climbers. Waddell stands as one of the Francisco where he began his liter- events for Come meet West’s most celebrated contempo- ary education. Economic realities bookworms Beth Judy — the author rary artists. His late modern “land- drove him to work on railroad gangs and literature ible courage and resilience during of Bold Women in Montana scapes with animals” couple abstract and on construction projects like the enthusiasts alike. one of history’s darkest hours. History — on Thursday, May 11th at expressionist technique with the Libby Dam. The author of four Check out an Author Event with Pino Lella wants nothing to do 6pm. The fifteen-plus women por- creatures — Black Angus cattle, books of poems, Thomas has been Neltje for North of Crazy on with the war or the Nazis. He’s a trayed in this engaging book were Tuesday, May 2nd at 7pm. normal Italian teenager — obsessed indeed bold, breaking down barriers North of Crazy is a memoir about with music, food, and girls — but his of sexism, racism, and political growing up in a world of Gatsby- days of innocence are numbered. opposition to emerge as heroines of esque glamour, opulence, and cul- When his family home in Milan is their time. The sixth book in tural prestige, of exclusive parties destroyed by Allied bombs, Pino Mountain Press’ state-by-state series and elegant dinners, of literary joins an underground railroad help- for teen readers, Bold Women in luminaries including Somerset ing Jews escape over the Alps, and Montana History reveals the feminine Maugham, Daphne du Maurier, falls for Anna, a beautiful widow six side of the Treasure State’s storied Irving Stone, and Theodore years his senior. past. Roethke, of Manhattan townhouses In an attempt to protect him, Within the pages are stories of and country estates. Pino’s parents force him to enlist as fearless femmes who dared to dream As the daughter of publishing a German soldier — a move they and resolved to take action. Among magnate Nelson Doubleday, Neltje think will keep him out of combat. them we meet Annie Morgan, a and was raised to assume her place But after Pino is injured, he is Philipsburg homesteader whose mys- as a society matron. But beneath a recruited at the tender age of eight- terious life is only now coming to seemingly idyllic childhood, darker een to become the personal driver light; the bronc-riding Greenough currents ran: a colorful but alcoholic for Adolf Hitler’s left hand in Italy, sisters, Alice and Marge, who father whose absences left holes, a General Hans Leyers, one of the became rodeo stars during the mother incapable of love, a family Third Reich’s most mysterious and sport’s heyday; and Elouise Cobell, divided by money and power powerful commanders. champion of Native American struggles, and a secret that drove Now, with the opportunity to spy rights. the young woman into emotional for the Allies inside the German Perfect for school or home, this isolation. High Command, Pino endures the collection of short but informative North of Crazy is written with the horrors of the war and the Nazi biographies is both a valuable same fierce passion, wit, and emo- occupation by fighting in secret, his resource and an entertaining read. Theodore Waddell tion that drove her off the conven- courage bolstered by his love for For readers young and old, Bold tional path to reconstruct her life. Anna and for the life he dreams they Women in Montana History proves what She became an artist, cattle rancher, will one day share. women can accomplish when they horses, and bison — that populate published in anthologies including and entrepreneur in Wyoming, Visit with author Leif dare to be bold. the high plains and mountain valleys The Last Best Place, Poems Across the Big where she still lives. Whittaker when he stops in to dis- The Country Bookshelf is locat- of today’s ranching West. Sky, and New Poets of the American An Author Event with Mark cuss My Old Man and the Mountain on ed at 28 W. Main St. downtown. All Edited by Rick Newby, My West, and periodicals including Blue Sullivan follows on Wednesday, Sunday, May 7th at 4pm. events are free and open to the pub- Montana is richly illustrated with Collar Review and the Cedilla literary May 3rd at 7pm. Come help cele- In 1963, the world followed the lic. For more information about the Waddell’s work, and incorporates journal. His essay “Gothic Days” brate the launch of his latest novel, first American Mount Everest store or these events, visit excerpts from Waddell’s journals and appears in The Complete Montana Beneath a Scarlet Sky, the triumphant, Expedition, and watched as “Big www.countrybookshelf.com or letters, as well as an extensive oral Gothic, which also features Thomas’ epic tale of one young man’s incred- Jim” Whittaker became the first call (406) 587-0166. • history. The book includes essays cel- earliest published work. Most recent- ebrating Waddell’s life and art by the ly he has published poems and an Montana curators, critics, scholars, interview in Talking River and poems poets and fiction writers who have in San Pedro River Review. known him best, including Pat Originally from Iraq, Saif Mother’s Day Brunch unfolds at Rockin’ TJ Williams, Greg Keeler, Scott Alsaegh currently is a film student in McMillion, William Hjortsberg, Missoula. His work has appeared in Looking for somewhere to cele- 21 and over. Reservations for this and trade shows. Very little decorat- Paul Zarzyski and Brian Petersen, Witness, the Great Falls Tribune, The brate with mom next month? The event are held by credit card only. ing is necessary to create virtually among others. Legendary and other venues. His first Rockin’ TJ Ranch will present its To reserve your seats, please call any atmosphere, from a natural “Theodore Waddell’s vast (and book, Iraqi Headaches, was published annual Mother’s Day Brunch on (406) 585-0595.