Upcoming Events
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Brown Bag Lunch: Discretion Series with J. Hoolihan Clayton
September 23rd, 2026
Beginning just after the Battle of the Little Big Horn, the “Discretion” series delves into underexposed and accurate history of the American West, founded in aggressive 19th century political policies inspired by manifest destiny and intended to destroy Native American cultures and people.
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Remembering the Hood: Dublin Gulch
September 29th, 2026 - 6pm
Jim McCarthy, a local Butte historian and volunteer at the Archives, will be outlining his years-long research project on seven individual neighborhoods on Tuesday evenings. -
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Brown Bag Lunch: The West—Past and Present, Myth, and Reality
October 2nd at 12:00 pm
The Irish writer Billy O’Callaghan discusses what gives the West its aura and compare and contrast the mythical cowboys of O’Callaghan’s childhood with the living, breathing ones in Butte’s backyard.
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Remembering the Hood: Finn Town
October 6th, 2026 - 6pm
Jim McCarthy, a local Butte historian and volunteer at the Archives, will be outlining his years-long research project on seven individual neighborhoods on Tuesday evenings.
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Remembering the Hood: East Side
October 13th, 2026 - 6pm
Jim McCarthy, a local Butte historian and volunteer at the Archives, will be outlining his years-long research project on seven individual neighborhoods on Tuesday evenings.
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Brown Bag Lunch: Historic Tax Credits with Ed Gulick
October 14th at 12:00 pm
Ed Gulick of High Plains Architects will explain why the popular refrain that “it would be cheaper to demolish and build new than to renovate a historic building” is almost never true.
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Remembering the Hood: Parrot Flat
October 20th, 2026 - 6pm
Jim McCarthy, a local Butte historian and volunteer at the Archives, will be outlining his years-long research project on seven individual neighborhoods on Tuesday evenings.
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Remembering the Hood: East Butte
October 27th, 2026 - 6pm
Jim McCarthy, a local Butte historian and volunteer at the Archives, will be outlining his years-long research project on seven individual neighborhoods on Tuesday evenings.
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Brown Bag Lunch: Listening to Ghosts in a Haunted Land
October 28th at 12:00 pm
A conversation with journalist Kathleen McLaughlin and historian Betsy Gaines Quammen on phantoms, history, and reconciliation with our unsettled past.
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Remembering the Hood: Meaderville
November 3rd, 2026 - 6pm
Jim McCarthy, a local Butte historian and volunteer at the Archives, will be outlining his years-long research project on seven individual neighborhoods on Tuesday evenings.
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Remembering the Hood: McQueen
November 10th, 2026 - 6pm
Jim McCarthy, a local Butte historian and volunteer at the Archives, will be outlining his years-long research project on seven individual neighborhoods on Tuesday evenings.
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Remembering the Hood: Galloping Houses
November 17th, 2026 - 6pm
Jim McCarthy, a local Butte historian and volunteer at the Archives, will be outlining his years-long research project on seven individual neighborhoods on Tuesday evenings.
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Brown Bag Lunch: Pie in the Sky with Janet Finn
November 18th at 12:00 pm
In her first work of fiction, Janet L. Finn brings decades of storytelling and social justice scholarship to life in a sweeping novel about struggle, solidarity, and unexpected connection.
