John Clayton's Blog

For many years my favorite section of my favorite magazine has been the “Rural Route” feature in the Montana Quarterly. There’s no plot: they just send some writer and photographer to a small Montana town. In his five-year tenure, Jeff Hull continually got me to love these towns I’d never been to. Jeff has recently moved on to new challenges, and this quarter, I got to write one of the columns. It’s a tremendous honor and great thrill. Furthermore, the town of Medicine Lake (waaaaay up in the northeast corner of the state) was far more fun than I could have imagined. I hope the piece captured at least some of the pleasure I had at Lake's Homecoming weekend.