Red Lodge: from extracting minerals to 'mining' tourists
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This photo is after Steve's 80th special birthday dinner of "shrimp atop smoked gouda grits in a Cajun vegetable base." Sherry and I were enjoying a special bread pudding dessert, with fireworks, all part of the birthday show at the Carbon County Steakhouse in downtown Red Lodge.
For our recent 80th birthdays my wife and I have been taking mini-vacations to places in Montana we've never visited. Our travel agent, Keri Hanson, helps the one making the travel plans to put together a trip and keeps it secret. The day after my 80th my wife announced, "We're going to Red Lodge."
On April 1 I turned 80. I wrote a story about the Yellowstone Kelly exhibit currently at the Blaine County Museum. When my wife mentioned another 'Montana trip" Keri suggested, "Steve's interested in Yellowstone Kelly and that grave site is on the rimrocks of Billings. Why don't you do a trip that m...
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