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Cultural & Aesthetic Grant
The MonDak Heritage Center has been awarded a Cultural & Aesthetic Grant from the Montana Cultural Trust for operational support and preservational programming for $15,000.
This award will be used to maintain historical preservation and art, culture and history programming at the MonDak Histortical Center; and will assist in continuation of music at the MonDak, MAGDA traveling art shows and visiting artist, history exhibits, "Featured Artists" and shows by local artists, Humanities Montana and other humanities speakers, special cultural events, national traveling exhibits and permanent displays for art and history collections.
Montana By Food
This show—which celebrates the Treasure State’s unique culinary traditions—was cooked up by Montana’s Museum at the Montana Historical Society in conjunction with Humanities Montana. Montana by Food serves up varied helpings of this all-important topic, including food production, distribution, preparation, service, and consumption. It examines the “what and why” of the eating habits of former generations of Montanans while illustrating how things have changed over the years, and how they haven’t.
The exhibit features thirty-three appetizing images from the Photograph Archives of the Montana Historical Society, sixteen graphic reproductions of historic artifacts from Montana’s Museum, and tasty vintage recipes from the MHS Library’s Community Cookbook Collection. The photographs cover a wide time-span, from the 1880s to the recent past, and represent all geographic regions of the state. Recipes range from such mouthwatering treats as First Lady Betty Babcock’s formula for “Grandmother’s Christmas Pudding” to Butte’s famed pasties. In addition there are recipes for historic fare—like pickled beaver’s tail and pork cake—that might not have widespread appeal to modern palates.
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Spring Fling 2009
The Spring Fling Auction featured over 40 amazing items. The items shown on the right are a Lu'au, complete with setup, food for 8, entertainment and clean-up, a Spring Sweep package that included a day of cleaning and reorganization, and a hand-crafted birdhouse donated by Larry and Sharon Mindt.
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2009 Celebrating Chocolate event was on February 6th from 7-9pm, with a Tuscan Twist!
We would like to thank Stockman Bank for being our generous corporate sponsor, without them, Celebrating Chocolate would not be possible! As you can see from the photos, the event was simply delectable!
 
Cotton Wood Bluegrass performs
Cotton Wood is a North
Dakota bluegrass band. They perform in many bluegrass festivals in
North and South Dakota, Minnesota, and Montana. Cotton Wood plays a variety of
music using traditional bluegrass
instruments. Everything from lively
bluegrass, to popular, to country flavored
music is their trademark. The band is
composed of Dan Foster-mandolin/guitar,
Keith Koch-guitar, Jill Wiese-bass/mandolin/
guitar, Lee Benjamin-banjo/dobro/guitar.
Sponsored in part by Williston's
Community Enhancement Star Grant.
This concert was FREE to the public on January 24th.
Grab a piece of history: MonDak Region Historical & Cultural Passports
 In an effort to encourage everyone to visit the treasures in their own backyard, museums from the MonDak region are having a passport contest. Stop at the MonDak Heritage Center to get your passport then visit all the other participating museums: Fort Union Trading Post, Fort Buford Historic Site and Confluence, James Memorial Art Center (Williston), Long X Trading Post and Visitors Center (Watford City), Glendive Frontier Gateway Museum (Glendive) and Lewis & Clark Trail Museum (Alexander). When you have visited all of the museums and received your stamp from each, you will be entered in a drawing for a prize basket from one of the participating museums. The program ends on December 31, 2008, so stop by today to grab your piece of history and a chance at some great prizes!
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