You can find the work of journalist and author Scott McMillion on his new Web site. Scott McMillion is an award-winning journalist, and the author of Mark of the Grizzly. He is also senior editor of the terrific Montana Quarterly magazine for the past five years. Scott’s Web site has his magazine and newspaper articles, videos, and info about Mark of the Grizzly. The site has the nifty iPaper PDF viewer so you can read his magazine pieces, and see the excellent photography that accompanies them, right there on the site. Mark of the Grizzly was the very first book I read by a Livingston author just before I moved here in 2002, and I have been reading Scott’s writing ever since. I was also interviewed by Scott for the Bozeman Daily Chronicle when I started LivingstonOutLoud.com in 2005, and I had first-hand experience of how well he gets his subjects. So it was a real pleasure to work with him on his Web site, and to read some of the articles I hadn’t read before. Scott’s style is distinctive, smart, insightful, wry, and often moving. Consider his lead in for the current Bugle Magazine article “Elvis Has Left the Building” about a well-known Yellowstone...

The current issue of Cowboys & Indians magazine has an article about one of my clients, Kendall Grumman/HawkwoodMT.com. The article covers the history and building of the current Hawkwood West Boulder Valley retreat. Kendall created this extraordinary home around the original Hawkwood School and Post Office. She fell in love with the hand-hewn log structure and preserved it and built an additional 2000 square feet of living space around it, using reclaimed materials for flooring, trim, furnishings, and custom kitchen cabinetry (built by Crown Creations Cabinetmakers). Congratulations on the Cowboys & Indians article, Kendall! Inside the house, built around the original cabin: