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If it's from the beautiful coffee table presentation, "Tasting Minnesota: Favorite Recipes from the Land of 10,000 Lakes" by Betsy Nelson, it's bound to be pretty darned good! Farcounty Press out of Helena, has done it again with this wondrous publication...

No, no, I'm not blogging about my on air radio work. They're the conditions in the Somers, Montana logging camps we'll be reading about tonight (Tuesday) during Montana History up at the Marias Heritage Center here in Shelby. You think YOU have troubles...

We'll find out this afternoon (Monday) on the Puffman Show when Palliative Medicine Consultant & Professor of Humanism in Medicine & Professor of Oncology at the world famous Mayo Clinic in Minnesota, Dr. Edward T. Creagan, M.D. is my special guest at 4:40.. Dr. C...

"Updraft: The Aerodynamics Of Great Leadership" is the title of the NEW hardcover book that's up for grabs this afternoon (Monday) on Puffman Musical Trivia at 4:30. Are you leading your organization to new heights...or is your company stuck on the ground...

"Baseball's No-Hit Wonders" is the title of the book that's up for grabs tomorrow (Saturday) morning at 7:30 on Puffman Sports Trivia. Award-winning Associated Press journalist & baseball blogger Dirk Lammers is the author of "Baseball's No…

TIMBER! We're reading about the logging era over in Somers, Montana Tuesday evenings during Montana History up at the Marias Heritage Center here in Shelby. I'll be reporting for duty at 6 o'clock SHARP tonight (Tuesday) to read more of Henry Elwood's "Somers, Monta…

Earlier today on our "Birthday Calendar," Gary Goodan announced that an actress from one of television's all time great sitcoms is celebrating her 90th birthday today, & it's all part of my musical trivia contest coming up this afternoon (Monday) at 4:30 on P…

That's PH.d Robert R. Neuman's "College Smart" book that's up for grabs tomorrow (Saturday) morning at 7:30 on Puffman Sports Trivia. The thing is, "Dr. Bob" uses REAL words in the title & doesn't take the easy way out like I did w…

No, no...not the BEER Baron. He's down in Great Falls. I'm blogging about James F. Dougherty, also known as the "Baron of Leiperville, & he was a larger than life sportsman whole hotel, bar & fight arena back in Leiperville, Pennsylvania, was a mecca for boxin…

We'll be doing some "Armchair Traveling" this evening (Tuesday) up at the Marias Heritage Center here in Shelby as we continue with the book, "Somers, Montana: The Company Town," during our Tuesday evening Montana History reading at the Heritage...

I'm all fired up for Puffman SPORTS Trivia tomorrow (Saturday) morning at 7:30, & thanks to the University of Nebraska Press, I have a cool book up for grabs for the 1st listener who calls in with the correct answer to my sports trivia question. Th...

We'll be reading MORE on the town of Somers, Montana, up at the Marias Heritage Center during Montana History tonight (Tuesday) & it's fascinating saga for sure. In the early 1900's, the forests around Flathead Lake were primarily western larch, ponderosa pine &a…