Scott McMillion » art http://scottmcmillion.com Journalist, author of "Mark of the Grizzly," senior editor of Montana Quarterly Sat, 24 Dec 2011 22:52:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 “The Art of Survival” http://scottmcmillion.com/2010/02/the-art-of-survival/ http://scottmcmillion.com/2010/02/the-art-of-survival/#comments Wed, 10 Feb 2010 22:12:35 +0000 Scott http://scottmcmillion.com/?p=802 By Scott McMillion
The Montana Quarterly
Winter, 2009
Photography by Thomas Lee

Against all odds, after barely surviving the Bataan Death March, Billings artists Ben Steele went on to make his life an act of generosity.

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Montana Quarterly
Fall, 2009

       Go outside. Walk Slowly. Pay attention. Listen. Smell the air. Taste it. Look at the soil and see how it responds to your step. Notice which grasses shine brightest in the morning dew. Compare birds, the differences in wing and shape and flight pattern. Maybe kick over a rock, see what’s under there.
       This is land snorkeling. Doing it could take you almost anywhere, even if you never leave your own neighborhood.
       Think of it like snorkeling a reef. You drift over mysterious turf. You keep your head down, mostly. Everything is cool, so you look it all over, and you wonder. You come back smiling.

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Western Art & Architecture

Winter/Spring 09

     Every afternoon for 10 days, John Banovich went to the banks of Botswana’s Khwai River, where families of elephants gathered to eat and drink and bathe.  With 25 trips to Africa under his belt, he’d seen a lot of elephants, but he wanted to see more, to learn more.

     Then, on the eleventh day, he decided to join a group of 12 bulls in the river, slipping into the chest-deep water, among the hippos and crocodiles, trying not to think about mysterious bugs and parasites.

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Bozeman Daily Chronicle
April 14, 2005

Wayne Skertich was a builder by trade, but music was his passion. With it, he made friends around the world. With his fiddle and piano, his bass and guitar, he spread a lot of joy, lifted a lot of spirits.

On Saturday morning, at 2 a.m., after police had surrounded his home for 26 hours, after close friends and his wife had pleaded with him to come outside, he put his gun to his head and the music was over.

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