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In the Mining City, visitors are swept away by its rich Festival City mining history, with walking tours, magnificent buildings throughout the Historic District and museums that What to see offer a glimpse into Butte’s rough and rowdy past. ANSELMO MINE YARD In the beautiful mountains Started in 1887, Butte’s best preserved mine yard is in almost the same condition as when it closed in and river valleys of southwest 1959. Cars of the Butte, Anaconda & Pacific Railway Montana, visitors will find are also inside the fence. Location: North Excelsior hiking and biking trails, and Caledonia streets. blue-ribbon trout streams and rocks to climb. In the towns CLARK CHATEAU — from Deer Lodge to Dillon This 1898 French-style mansion of the — there’s everything from son of Copper King W.A. Clark, 321 W. Broadway St., is now a museum theater to rodeos, golf and with rotating exhibits and is operated some of the best restaurants by the Butte-Silver Bow Archives. around. Call 782-3280 for times . What more could you ask for? BERKELEY PIT Once among the world’s largest truck-operated, INSIDE open-pit copper mines, the Berkeley Pit closed in Butte 3-13 1982. The 1,800 foot deep pit is filling with Anaconda 14-16 acidic water.Public viewing stand Deer Lodge, Powell Co. 17-19 located off Philipsburg, Granite Co. 20-21 Shields Avenue. Dillon, Beaverhead Co. 22-24 See WHAT TO SEE, Whitehall, Jefferson Co. 25-26 Page 10 Lewis & Clark Caverns 26 T. Bridges, Ruby Valley 27 Virginia City 28-30 4 ● THINGS TO DO IN SOUTHWEST MONTANA 2014 BUTTE RIDERS DANGLE from their bikes during a free style show in last year’s Evel Knievel Days. Walter Hinick / The Montana Standard Calendar of events JUNE 6 — Uptown Art Walk from 5 to 9 p.m., on the first Fridayof the month, paintings, photography, jewelry, drawings, handmade crafts, ceramics, batik and more at multiple locations in Uptown Butte, call 406-497-6464 or visit uptownbutteartwalk.org/. 7 — Butte Farmers Market is 8:30-1 p.m. Saturdays through Oct. 4, on west Main Street, bedding plants, eggs, chickens, fruits and vegetables, baked goods,sausages, flowers, salsa, arts and crafts, call Mainstreet Uptown Butte at 406-497-6464 or email [email protected]. 14 — Miners Union Day Celebration, 1-3 p.m., World Museum of Mining, free admission, reduced fees for underground tour, adults $8,seniors (65 and older) and students $5, kids $3,food and entertainment for the family, 406- 723-7211. Butte Farmers Market, 8:30-1 p.m., West Park Street, 406-497-6464 16 - 27 — The Dennis and Phyllis Washington Summer Camp will be weekdays from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at The Episcopal Church of St. Mary and St. John. Cost is $250.00.Focuses on a variety of performing arts skills through scenework, monologues, dance and a performance at the end. 19 — Behind the Scenes, 5-7 p.m., World Museum of Mining, find out what is behind the glass windows in Hell Roarin’ Gulch. Bring your camera to explore exhibits from the inside out, $20 per person, reservations recommended, 723-7211. 21 — Butte Farmers Market, 8:30 to 1 p.m.,West Park Street, 406-497-6464 21-22 — Junior Rodeo at Butte Vigilante Saddle and Rodeo Club 26 — Butte Center for the Performing Arts Summer Fun Dance Party Montana Standard file photo Fundraiser at Butte Country Club, entertainment by The Diamonds, picnic BUTTE’S TIERNAN IRISH DANCERS perform during last year’s An Ri Ra Montana dinner, 6:30-10 p.m., 406-723-3602. Irish Festival in Uptown Butte. 28 — Butte Farmers Market, 8:30-1 p.m., West Park Street, 406-497-6464 JULY 3-5 — Field of Honor displayof 1,000 flags honoring American heroes, near Belmont Mine (Mercury and Shields). Open noon to 10 p.m. Thursday; 1-3 — Freedom Festival, Town Pump fireworks display on Big Butte, at dusk See CALENDAR, Page 5 2014 THINGS TO DO IN SOUTHWEST MONTANA ● 5 Calendar ... Continued from Page 4 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. Friday; and 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday. For details go to www.ButteFieldofHonor.Org. 4 — Fourth of July Parade on Harrison Avenue. Uptown Art Walk from 5 to 9 p.m., paintings, photography, jewelry, drawings, handmade crafts, ceramics, batik and more at multiple locations in Uptown Butte, call 497-6464 or visit uptownbutteartwalk.org/. 5 — Bull-a-Rama, 30 riders will buck out 30 bulls,top 10 go for prizes, mutton busting for kids, bull-poker for adults, at rodeo grounds, 406-494- 6700. Butte Farmers Market, 8:30-1 p.m., West Park Street, 497-6464 9-13 — Good Sam Club, Montana State Samboree, RVs will encamp at Butte Civic Center 406-549-9411 11 — Free Anselmo Mine Tour, 1-3 p.m. at the Anselmo Mine Yard. Former miners tell about station tendering,rope men’s work, the drys, the electric train locomotives and more. Call World Museum of Mining, 406-723-7211. 11-13 — The free Montana Folk Festival will feature hundreds of perform- ers and craftspeople with music and dance performances on six stages, workshops, children’s activities, folklife demonstrations, festival market- places and ethnic and regional foods.The entertainment types include Piedmont flatpickers, rock-a-billy,Peruvian dance troupe,Kurdish tanbur music,Laotian traditional, Southern Appalachian storytelling and banjo, klezmer music and dancing, reggae, Cajun, merengue, blues, gospel, mari- achi, Native American drummers and singers, soul music, Canadian Celtic, NewOrleans brass band jazz, bluegrass, old time, West African, and Quebecois. Call 406-497-6464, visit www.montanafolkfestival.com or www.facebook.com/mtfolkfest. 12 — Butte Farmers Market, 8:30 to 1 p.m.,West Park Street, 406-497-6464 17 — Behind the Scenes, 5 to 7 p.m., World Museum of Mining, find out what is behind the glass windows in Hell Roarin’ Gulch. Bring your camera, $20 per person, 406-723-7211. 19 — Montana Lineman’s Rodeo at Butte Rodeo Grounds, 8 a.m. to 2 p.m., open to the public. Butte Farmers Market, 8:30-1 p.m., West Park Street, 406-497-6464. 24-26 — Evel Knievel Days, daredevil stunts, visit evelknieveldays.org/schedule-of-events/ 26 — Butte 100 mountain bike race, 50- and 100-mile versions, atop the Continental Divide just outside of Butte, 250 racers. Butte Farmers Market, Walter Hinick / The Montana Standard 8:30-1 p.m., West Park Street, 406-497-6464. MARSHALL FORD SWING BAND vocalist Emily Gimble and bass player Kristopher 31-Aug. 2 — Butte-Silver Bow CountyFair, Butte Civic Center, arts, crafts, Wade harmonize during the opening performance at the Original at the Montana food booths,farm animals,rodeo, music,exhibits, horse show, Folk Festival. concert, concessions and open class judging including horticulture, foods, photography and fine art, 4-H livestock and other projects, 9 a.m.-9 p.m., Dublin Gulch, Solas, and Tiernan Irish Dancers. Irish Mass on Sunday. 406-491-1674 406-498-3983 AUGUST 8-9 — Butte Vigilante Rodeo,6354 Albany Ave., 7 p.m. nightly, Northern 1 — Uptown Art Walk from 5 to 9 p.m., paintings, photography, jewelry, Rodeo Association provides professional riders in bronc, bull, and bareback drawings, handmade crafts, ceramics, batik and more at multiple locations in See CALENDAR, Page 6 Uptown Butte, call 406-497-6464 or visit uptownbutteartwalk.org/. 2 — The Color Dash 5k, fundraiser for the Butte Chamber of Commerce, dusted in color. Pick up packets at 8 a.m. dash starts at 10 a.m., go to Truzzolino Pasties www.thecolordash5k.com.