"Remembering Columbia Gardens" (1999)

REMEMBERING THE COLUMBIA GARDENS, directed by Ray Ekness

This film celebrates the now-vanished Columbia Gardens in Butte, Montana. - in business from 1899-1973 - in home movies, pictures, and first-hand accounts of people who enjoyed the rollercoaster, the carousel, the biplanes, the cowboy swings.

ABOUT THE FILMMAKER
Ray Ekness has worked and taught at The University of Montana since 1989. He was a professor for the Radio-TV Department while he was a television producer at UM's Broadcast Media Center. He joined the school's permanent faculty in 1998, and was department chair from 2004-2011. He has produced programs about subjects ranging from sports, dance, history and culture to travel, politics, news and public affairs. He continues to produce segments for the award-winning Montana PBS television series "Backroads of Montana., which has been nominated for five regional Emmy Awards. Learn more about MontanaPBS at http://montanapbs.org.

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