Distinctly Montana Magazine

2026 // Spring

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69 w w w . d i s t i n c t l y m o n t a n a . c o m l e g a c y l e g a c y 2 0 2 5 2 0 2 5 Part One • Bozeman April 18 • 6 - 9pm • VIP 5-6pm Baxter Hotel Downtown Bozeman Part Two • Billings May 2 • 6 - 9 pm • VIP 5-6pm Northern Hotel Downtown Billings W o l e r y A r t w o r k VIP Ticket Prices: $ 35/single • $ 50/couple General Admission: $ 10 Both events are 21 and up • Visit or DM Wolery Artwork for tickets www.facebook.com/search/top?q=wolery%20artwork • www.instagram.com/wolery_artwork/ Boats are suspended above automobiles like cartoon thought bubbles. An alien autopsy (performed with au- thentic 1940s and 1950s medical instruments) shares space with a reenactment of an old-fashioned soda hop. If the collection skews toward the mid-century, it feels apropos for Gil's hyperreal, maybe even surreal vision of America. A "Viking" longship created out of hubcaps vies for attention with a two-headed calf and a metal scrap sculpture of a giant insect right out of a 1950s sci- ence fiction movie. And then there are the motorcycles—Gil's particular pride, especially this one, his favorite, with his grand- daughter Des pictured in the sidecar (left page). The Miracle of America Museum is a diorama of Amer- ica—or more specifically, given its international and even sometimes cosmic range of artifacts, it is a model of one Montana man's view of the America he grew up in. That it is presented with all of the oddity, strange- ness, and good humor of its founder elevates it above the merely informational into the rarified realm of the miraculous. Dntn Belade's Btique Dispensy Me Than a Cannabis Sh 406.580.4150 • www.mountainhighllc.com • 23 West Main St, Belgrade, Montana • Family ned & •ated since 2016 • Organic, locally n cannabis all flower grown in-house Signature Thai Sticks (premium cannabis, kief, hash, shatter, distillate, 24k gold) • Infusi†s Juice B the only dispensary in Montana with one • M†tana-made t, po‰•y & appel • Closest dispensy to Bozeman Yellst†e Int•nati†al AŽpt NOMINATE US WIN $1000 FOR YOUR CHANCE TO 2026 o f BEST M O N TA N A A S V O T E D B Y R E A D E R S O F Mntain High

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