4HistoryBuffs

Calling all history enthusiasts! 4HistoryBuffs is held on the last open Friday of each month from 7-9pm. Join guest speakers for lively and entertaining presentations of historical interest.

The Beginning of Time with George Seielstad

January 27

Radio waves from space were discovered unexpectedly in 1933 by Karl Jansky at Bell Telephone Laboraties. In 1964, Ano Penzias and Robert Wilson, also working at Bell Labs, albeit with a different radio telescope, discovered radiation filling all of space. What they had found was the Echo of Creation, the moment 13.8 billion years ago when space, time, and the seeds of matter came into existence.

Mike Mansfield – How the Legacy of Montana’s Greatest Statesman Can Support Our Democracy with Deena Mansour

February 24

In a life spanning nearly a century, Montana’s Mike Mansfield left enduring marks on our state, the nation, and the world. Deena Mansour, the Executive Director of the Maureen and Mike Mansfield Center, will discuss the Center’s work to honor the Mansfield legacy, and how Montanans can work together to support the core values of our democracy that Mansfield exemplified so well.