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Vol. I · No. 1Prolonging the Slow Death of NewspapersEst. 2026

Why Noah Went To The Woods

Had the privilege of being in the same building as Mark this past weekend at Mayborn. Take a look at this wonderful story:

Mark Sundeen: VERN AND DONELLE KERSEY aren't the type of parents satisfied with hauling their kids to a national park and pitching a tent beneath the floodlights of someone's motor home. Native Montanans both, when they go to the great outdoors they get all the way there. In the summer of 2010, when Vern's only week of vacation was pushed into September, the couple were not cowed by the threat of early snow. Along with their two youngest kids, 16-year-old Shelby and 11-year-old Trevor, they set out to hike 30 miles to the Chinese Wall, one of the most magnificent and…

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