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ET OUT YOUR CALENDAR AND SET A REMINDER
FOR SATURDAY, AUGUST 3RD FROM 11:00 AM UN-
TIL 7:00 PM TO ATTEND SERB FEST! Plan a road
trip to Holy Trinity Serbian Orthodox Christian Church at 2100
Continental Drive in Butte and celebrate Montana's Serbian his-
tory, which stretches back to the dusty, horse-drawn carriage days
when Montana was still a territory and Serbia was still a kingdom.
This celebration of Serbian food, music, culture, and history began in
2017 and has been going strong, with an obligatory pandemic pause
in 2020. The free festival immerses visitors in the sights, sounds,
smells, and tastes of Serbia. Farther Russell Radoicich gives tours
of Holy Trinity Serbian Orthodox Church several times through-
out the day. If you've never been inside this church, you're
missing one of Montana's finest cultural gems, with walls
and ceilings adorned with beautiful iconography.
Come hungry as you'll have a wide variety of home-
cooked Serbian dishes to choose from! If you've
never had Serbian cuisine, you're in for a rare treat.
With sarma, kielbasa, povitica, barbecued lamb, and
pork topped off with baklava for dessert, you won't
leave hungry. You'll leave with a full stomach, won-
derful memories, and probably even have some
new friends.
MONTANA'S
ONTANA'S
SERB
ERB
FEST
EST
by CHRISTOPHER MUHLENFELD
CHERYL
ACKERMAN
CHERYL
ACKERMAN
CHRISTOPHER
MUHLENFELD
