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There are 73 entries here.
10:59:30pm Dec 2 2007 Jill Hanson -- Email:
Missoula has always been a unique and amazing place for so many reasons; to have lived in, and been part of a place where, for so many years such a prominent and strong symbol watched over us from above, for all the world to see, there just aren't words. I'm thankful and know how fortunate I am to have been able to call this place home during the rein of The Peace Sign. WE NEED OUR PEACE SIGN BACK!
07:07:32pm Jul 5 2007 Julie -- Email:
web site: http://myspace.com/spottedsandpiper I fell in love with this town for many reasons, but one of the big ones was we were smart enough to bless our town with THE peace symbol. My kids make up the story that I told them it was the symbol for "AIRPORT". I WANT IT BACK! =( By the way, BEAUTIFUL PHOTOS.
11:46:57pm Jun 5 2007 Mike from sweden. -- I think you have to rework the peace sign.
Keep up.
Peace brother.
Mike
05:06:20pm May 1 2007 Andrea Harsell -- Email:
web site: myspace.com/andreaharsell Hi Steve... As you may know I grew up on N. 2nd just under the peace sign and it made me proud to be born of a town that would display the sentiment for all to see. It saddened me greatly when they took it down. I like the idea of a Peace Park and can't wait to see the flowers I heard they planted there bloom. As with life- Missoula is constantly changing, growing. I was actually looking for some photos of it when I came across this blog. Hope you are well. Peace.
05:10:40pm Apr 4 2007 catnapping -- web site: http://theoddneighbor.blogspot.com I miss it. I want our sign back where it belongs.
01:44:25pm Feb 12 2007 Lori Parr Campbell -- Email:
Great little site, I very much miss it up on the hill above our town. We bought our house on the Northside because it overlooked the neighborhood. I was bestowed with a section of it - the right chicken foot. We figured the removal of it was the beginning of the really bad period of our recent history. You know Jeannnette Rankin Peace Center is creating a Peace Park lower down on the hill. I thought they were going to bring all the pieces of the Peace back together again but have not heard of any such developments. All of we who hold one of nine pieces do so on agreement that if there should come avail a perfect place to reinstate it that we shall do so. The pieces await that moment. Until then, keep it alive. Lori
08:15:14am Feb 2 2007 Annie Hewitt -- Email:
The Image of Peace in those green rolling hills,ahhhhhhh. I believe we ,i and you have the power to create reality by what we think.So I thank you for the posting of this beautiful picture for all of us to see. One drop at a time fills the ocean.
May all yuor wishes be granted, (it's a buddhist saying)
Annie
11:05:45pm Nov 24 2006 jeff newton -- Email:
web site: ilspazio.com Steve, Hey I have been all over the world since growing up in Missoula, but I totally remember the peace sign on the mountain. I grew up on the Big Flat and the North Side. Your website is interesting, you have have a very great career !! Might need some of your services in my business, but otherwise.....thanks for bringing back the memory of the peace sign !!
Jeff Newton
05:08:35pm Dec 25 2005 Rae -- Email:
Thank you for your images of Missoula's peace sign. I always loved that rather than follow suit of many towns across the nation that greet visitors with a religious symbol, Missoula welcomed all in peace. I miss the symbol, but will always love the town that stands for it.
08:09:48am Dec 24 2005 Jim Beaver -- Email:
web site: tugboatbrown.multiply.com Steve I found this site by googling Ray and Susie Risho, friends I haven't seen for 30 years. Now thanks your those beautiful photos you've posted I have. Thanks
12:00:44pm Nov 30 2005 chance -- Email:
lets bring it back,or put peace sign stickers all over the city..this is our town blessings
10:25:48pm Oct 17 2004 Fengru Li -- Steve, what a site! I'm amazed to see two of the greatest Chinese were quoted on your site. Lao-tzu, the founder of Daoism, and Sun-Tzu, the forever military strategist. I'm touched by the details of your family, the art works of Sam and Suzanne, the hearty laughter from your father. And the other two as genius brothers. I close your site with a hope, a hope for peace, nature, humanity, and love. Thank you from China.
01:34:51am Aug 5 2004 durunto -- Email:
web site: tareqdipon.tk Steve. Your site brings me back to the future in a powerful way. A wonderful site................ this is.
Thanks every body
durunto
10:23:53am Mar 3 2004 Marianne -- Email:
Steve - Unique and deep website.. thank you for sharing! Montana Mountains are like no others! Favorite - Burning Man and Peace Sign! I look forward to visiting your site again.
10:08:04am Dec 6 2003 gary -- Email:
web site: illumineX.com Steve, love your new site design. Got any Honey Vodka from Poland left? Peter just brought me some vodka from Russia. Maybe we should have a taste test.
09:00:32pm Nov 29 2003 Guido -- Email:
web site: www.i-webhosting.com Dear Steve,
I come across the internet, found your nice reciprocal link software on www.edifygroup.com and install it on my web hosting site. Now i am here on your site. Burning man what an amazing spectacle. Nice Pictures and an intresting Place.
Keep up the good work and show us [outside the States] more from great parties like this. Guido a German in Bali - Indonesia.
09:33:49am Oct 27 2003 Don Saroff -- Email:
Hey Scmoo-El (steve)
your younger brother here, how are things?
ds
Oct 18 2003 09:08:05 PM Mei -- Email:
steve, thank you for leaving that peace sigh on your web site. people can take away the peace sigh, but what really matters is that each one of us keeps a peace sigh in our heart... no violence or war can destroy it. that's the strength of peace!
sending you this note from Hong Kong airport. i have just finished my one month long trip passing HK, China, Tibet and Nepal. i learned so many things!
hope you are doing great!
your friend,
mei
Sep 13 2003 11:34:25 AM Pam -- Email:
I miss you so much -- I can't think about Montana or it literally takes my breath away.
Wish I could come over with some freshly baked bread.
Love,
Pam
Aug 31 2003 04:08:37 PM Susanne -- Email:
web site: none......yet I found your link on the Burning Man Homepage....I grew up in Montana so your entry caught my eye.....Some of the best pics of Burning Man I've seen!!!.....really....and I've seen a lot! I hope to attend Burning Man myself one day....I've got your site on my favorites so I can check in and look at more cool pics! thanks!
07:10:48am Aug 3 2003 Julie -- Email:
web site: http://www.ArtFromTheSoul.com What a wonderful picture you painted with your short story "Alicia."
Excellently written.
08:50:48pm Aug 2 2003 Norman, Harry, Peeky -- Email:
Hello from Luzerne.
I told your dad that I once read one of your short stories, but I did not remember what magazine it was in. That's why we are in your site.
N
08:36:46pm Jul 24 2003 Del Hardin -- Email:
Very Cool, frozen moments of time in a special place where something incredibly unique on the whole planet is taking place...photos you can almost smell and taste...Thanks from a virgin Burner (this is my first year) i'll be joining old friends at the Black Rock City in just a few weeks...then i'll be truly connected to the energy because i'll be part of the source. Peace Out, Del
06:08:18am Jun 15 2003 Tom Fletcher -- Email:
Hi Steve,
This Email comes from Australia. My son, Scott sent me your website by Email. So, I tried it and was very pleasantly surprised. You must have a lovely family. Peace,
Tom
12:27:02am May 15 2003 Marie B. -- Email:
web site: http://www.marieb.com Hi Steve,
Thank you for visiting my place!..I've had the best time reading your stories and essays....'Banjo Bill Wyle and Luke's Bar' was one I like a lot..especially this part...'This world changes, but I like to believe that the need to talk and to listen is still the same, still something human, something real in this too, too stainless world'...
You have a superb site!..one to come back many times!
best regards,
Marie...:))
11:53:30pm May 14 2003 Johnny -- Email:
web site: http://www.londonderryrocks.com Hey Steve, those are some nice pics from Burning Man. I was actually planning a trip out there for the one this year. I like your site and I was wondering how you found mine on the web, if it was even you that signed my guestbook. It could have been some idiot messing with me. Who knows. Have fun!
05:50:25pm May 8 2003 Roxanne -- Email:
As a former Missoula resident I was heartbroken to see it taken down. Your web site is beautiful!
09:14:15pm Apr 29 2003 Gustavo de la Torre -- Email:
I've being looking thru different Burningman websites and yours really seems to capture the essence of what the Burningman experience is.
04:51:04pm Apr 29 2003 Laura -- Email:
web site: www.jonathanqualben.com Okay. I'm new to this and know I'm missing something. Have tried to use your example to set Jonathan up with a guestbook but am obviously missing a key ingredient. Could you go take a look? I think it might have to do with the szReferer thing you use. Thanks.
02:20:48pm Apr 14 2003 Amanda -- Email:
ahhh... memories!! this is wonderful looking back at the amazing structures and it brings back a head full of intresting thoughts. looking forward to 2003 and what could possibly lie ahead- peace PANDA!
11:45:42am Apr 10 2003 hannah -- this is soo cool. by monday april 15 the peace sign will have been reserected!!!
01:27:39pm Apr 9 2003 marianne forrest -- Email:
mr. steve: sometime in the future,folks will need to see/read all this info to imagine who/what we were.. .thanks for making it look like it was... marianne
12:59:47am Apr 8 2003 know you -- heard your 'thank you for pledging' on KUFM public radio for supporting tuesday night programming, forgot all about you till i heard your name...waiting to forget again, goodnite
10:48:05am Feb 25 2003 Jimbo -- Thank you so much for the chance to explore your site. You have invested time; I thank you for it!
Jimbo
Virginia, USA
05:48:14am Feb 25 2003 Astrid -- Email:
web site: www.gps-database.ch Thanks for visiting our web site! Before you travel next time through Africa don't forget to contact us.
11:54:47pm Feb 24 2003 Kamdiv -- Hello from Tomsk (Russia) !!!
:-)))
09:51:12pm Feb 23 2003 Michael Roach -- Email:
web site: www.placentiapoa.org If you always do what you always did, you would always get what you always got. Greeting from Kung Fu San Soo of California.
In the words of the late and great Jimmy H. Woo: If a fight last longer than 5 seconds, you did something wrong!!
06:40:09pm Feb 23 2003 carol judy -- Email:
I have really enjoyed your site, all the photo's, stories and history. Wonderful grandchildren, the artist is fasnating with her diverse styles.
Missoula struck a rememberance connection with me. When Champion Int'l. wanted to buy up major mountian forest land in and around the hollow where I live
citizens "educated" our local government on the past history and business there as well as other places they were in or had left.
I do like our mountains, the forest that grow and all that grows under a forest canopy.
Glad you droped a line on the www.jellico.com guest book. Thats how I found you
06:10:55pm Feb 23 2003 Steve -- web site: http://svklu.netfirms.com Thanks for signing my guestbook.
03:24:34pm Feb 23 2003 Gloria Hammond -- Email:
web site: www.baag.net Hi. I thought that I would check out your site, since you checked out ours. I live in Reno. I see that you have been to Burning Man! Wow....I have never been yet but I am going for the experience.
Take Care.
10:06:47am Feb 23 2003 Roseby -- web site: www.terraronin.com Thanks for your visit to my site and your message. Some interesting and thought provoking bits on yours here. Would be interested on your thoughts if you decide you've figured out what mine's about. Take care, R.
04:38:19am Feb 23 2003 Pietrino Di Sebastiano -- web site: http://www.cfcontroluce.it/pietrinodisebastiano Ti ringrazio della tua visita al mio sito e del messaggio sul guestbook!
10:44:58pm Feb 22 2003 Phillip Love -- Email:
web site: huntersguildonline.com Thanks for visiting my website. I found yours to be quite interesting also. Do you hunt? Let me know, and I,ll hook you up with a free hunt in Georgia compliments Hunters Guild Inc.
Sincerely Phil
09:41:22pm Feb 22 2003 Susie Klein -- Email:
web site: http://www.jupiterkitty.com Hello Steve~ Thanks for visiting my site for it has led me to yours and all the wonderful stories and photos I am presently enjoying. There's much to experience here so I will be returning for more :)
04:19:52pm Feb 22 2003 Paul K Skelton -- Email:
web site: DoverGrammar.co.uk Nice site. Like the randomness of the entry page. It's certainly given me a few idears for the Dover Grammar site.
Hope I have time to fulfill my dreams.
03:43:29pm Feb 22 2003 keith -- web site: http://www.uspharmd.com I don't know what this is all about either but I am merely your courtesy of signing my guestbook
02:54:28pm Feb 22 2003 -- Email:
Lovely poem. Thanx for surfing through.
02:26:06pm Feb 22 2003 Melissa & Jeff -- Email:
web site: http://www.fullmoonfamily.com Thanks for signing our guest book Steve... Peace.
05:49:04pm Feb 20 2003 Scott Saroff -- Email:
Greetings from snowy, Syracuse, NY. We're not Montana, but it sure felt like it over the last few weeks. Very cold....
10:16pm September 26,2002 Murray Kreloff -- Email:
web site: www.twostepsfromtheedge.com I'll see you all at Burning Man next year for sure. Saroff; I love your photos and your site in general. Keep up the groovy woik!
Murray from Oklahoma.
2:24pm September 10, 2002 melinda -- Email:
Steve, Steve, Steve...regards to Duffy and George, George, George...I'm so proud of you guys!
Love, Melinda, Melinda, Melinda
9:55pm August 24, 2002 sarah potoczny -- Email:
I'm so happy, loving and missing Montana. As a native (Bigfork) and grad (UM- B.S. and M.S.)and coincidently, a former employee of St. Patrick Hospital (Physical Therapy and Cardiac Rehab. Dept. (1995-1999), it's funny to never have met you. I'm now living in Santa Cruz, CA and am part of BM camp at 285 on the Esplanade..Fruiti de Mare...Look forward to you dropping in to chat over a smoothie.
Sarah
11:03am May 16, 2002 Pam -- Email:
What would I do without this page? I sit and stare at those pictures of Montana -- taking me back there. And the words. " A moment later my first poem began. What touched it off? I think I know. Without any wind blowing, the sheer weight of a raindrop, shining in parasitic luxury on a cordate leaf, caused its tip to dip, and what looked like a globule of quicksilver perfromed a sudden glissando down the center vein, and then, having shed its bright load, the relieved leaf unbent. Tip, leaf, dip, relief -- the instant it all took to happen seemed to me not so much a fraction of time as a fissure in it, a missed heartbeat, which was refunded at once by a patter of rhymes: I say "patter" intentionally, for when a gust of wind did come, the trees would briskly start to drip all together in as crude an imitation of the recent downpour as the stanza I was already muttering resembled the shock of wonder I had experienced when for a moment heart and leaf had been one." -- from Nabokov's Speak, Memory
1:40am February 2, 2002 stephan -- web site: www.lewebadesoreilles.fr.st hiya ! really cool pics of Missoula's Peace-sign... I've been living there right in front of it for almost a whole year (Wolf St.). I probably have pictures of it too, I dunno, I'll have to check that out ! take care ;-)
8:43pm October 24, 2001 Scott Gustin -- Email:
....you read the Missoulian, checking up on the latest Griz talk. Pick your nose, look out the window and think....maybe a coffee at Butterfly Herbs. Maybe there will be somebody there I know. Raz, Frank, Steve. Maybe there will be somebody there I don't want to see, (names withheld) I'll go to the Catalyst instead. Not as many nouveu chic and the service is better. All within walking distance.
It's amazing what the internet can do, but my mind is still better. However, even in my mind, I couldn't imagine Steve becoming God. Sheesh Boy, them's some pretty big boots your wearin'!
I think I'll go stand on a wild beach, watch the waves, try to catch a few small herring, and thank whatever it was that put me here for all the in' luck and good fortune I've had in my life.
It's not the mountains, but it almost works the same. If that fails, well there is always the night sky. Look up my friends....just ing look up.
Cheers and xxxooo
12:18pm October 15, 2001 Pam -- Email:
Strangely enough, today -- I was walking across the concrete of the community college where I teach in this city -- and the air was filled with the smell of tar and construction heat, the welders on the low roofs bent over pieces of metal, the clouds low and gray and metallic and that before snow feeling...the geese have finished passing and the leaves are nearly down and for no reason at all I was brought back to Montana...a kind of swirling, collapsing feeling of sound and smell and time and it seemed strange to climb into my car and not have that land cradling me. And I go home and I go to your site.
3:31pm September 22, 2001 elizabeth -- Email:
i was searching for peace signs on northerlight.com and found your site. thankyou... the quotes and knowledge that your site contains.. it makes me remember what good use the internet has brought all of us. hope you don't mind if i visit again. peace to the world.
6:49pm September 14, 2001 Juli Piet -- It's been a rough week. Ready to go home..,
The poem of the day:
the miracle is the shortest time.
-- Charles Bukowski
Was a perfect way to end the week, that and the pictures.
My brother is still on the playa and I miss him. Seeing your picture and reading the poem took me back to the playa for at least a moment..., Thanks
9:34am September 2, 2001 john and Jackson Smith -- Jackson and I are enjoying the peace sign site. We hiked to the sign a week before it was dismantled. Great to see in today's Missoulian that the symbol survives in yards around our fair town. Rather coyote like, don't ya think? The more they try to run us off the more we spread out and multiply. Now there are 9 peace sign symbols out there instead of just one. Wow. We took pictures on our hike. I made some T shirts. All because they were going to remove the peace sign. Probably wouldn't have thought to make a T shirt of it if not for that. See. Thanks for a great site (sight) Steve Sam. John and Jackson
9:57pm August 6, 2001 Laura -- Hey Steve, you happened to cross my mind today so I visited your site to see what was "new". Not much going on in the land of "Oz", just a lot of HEAT!! Hope y'all are cooler up in Montana.
3:09pm May 23, 2001 Conrad Burns -- Get rid of the vandalism above the university! I object to having to see the letter 'M' up on the mountain. It is a disgrace to all right-thinking people. Everyone knows it stands for 'Marijuana'. Also, the clock tower down below has been displaying the secret message '4:20' at least 2 times every day and in the pot smoker's 'lingo', this means that people should get stoned at that time. How can the university tolerate such blatant advocacy of illegal drug use? It is an outrage!! However, it's typical of the leftist communists who are running our media and educational institutions
1:17pm April 1, 2001 Jane -- April Fools (Abe and Jane in Minneapolis)!
Looking forward to meeting you at Burningman....
7:33pm March 18, 2001 Pam Kennedy -- web site: www.geocities.com/pj_kennedy/Glaciergirlpage.html Steve.
Late March in Minneapolis. Nighttime. Thawing. We need a way in this world to feel connected, to be grounded ... and I know those years, in Missoula, for me were the closest I've ever come to feeling that way. The particular smell of the rattlesnake trail in spring, late runs through the streets looking in people's windows and coveting their gardens. Whatever trade offs there might be for another life ... I don't think they're worth it. Your site brings me back to Missoula in a powerful way. To EB White and drinking coffee at Bernices in the early dark of winter...and first lines of stories read out loud. A wonderful site.
P
8:21pm March 12, 2001 David Saroff -- If its broken and they threw it out, and you fix it, its yours and its free.
11:34am March 12, 2001 Jakki Mohr -- web site: www.business.umt.edu/faculty/mohr/ Want to sit next to me at Bernice's again, so you can pick up the tab for me and my kids' pastries?
6:36pm March 9, 2001 Scott Gustin -- Hello Steve,
Hope the kid (which one?) is better by now. Probably just wanting some attention. So this looks like it works. Kinda fun reading names from Missoula I remember and can now think about. Life in Oz is lovely. Still need rain, but the fishing is good. The prime minister in an act of desperation, caused by inflicting this nation with a GST (gross sales tax)is now offering first time homebuyers and builders of new homes $14,000. To help out the building trades. Which slumped to almost stopping. We just may have to build a house. But honestly the Aussie dollar is only worth about .51 US right now. A good time to come visit I'd say. Cheaper than Mexico! Anyway, enough of that. Let's rig up that web cam thingy. LEt the boys see each other.
cheers
xxxooo Scott
4:46pm March 9, 2001 The OXO Foundation -- web site: www.nahn.com Hey Dude: Is this like a one-directional weblog that you are going to cut and paste into the Great Novel? Cool. I want in on the t-shirts. Samoans will arrive soon to pick up the check. Take Air.
1:17pm March 9, 2001 patrick clark -- web site: www.patrickclark.com I like this new feature. Now we all want to know who else is coming here to your ever changing site.
12:47pm March 9, 2001 Jon A. Jackson -- web site: www.jonajackson.com Yo! Esteban! Been looking for you. What do you mean, sick kid? I thought you were single and lonely and mo . Don't tell me you've found happiness again? It's not fair!
Jon
11:29am March 9, 2001 Anthony Gamell -- Email:
web site: www.lincamerica.com We're working on the next "Big Idea" Steve. Let's talk soon.
11:27am March 9, 2001 Fred Hafely -- web site: www.deathstar.lnl.gov Mr. Saroff, I would like to commend you on your marvelous guest book system. We here at Lawrence Livermore have been looking for an online bulletin board system for our new PeaceShield project and we have decided to use your system for all of our documentation, field-testing, and automatic counterstrike target neutralization platforms. Thanks very much and keep up the good work!
Sincerely,
Fred Hafely
USMC (Ret)
10:30am March 9, 2001 Daniel Kemmis -- Email:
web site: www.crmw.org I like it. How's about linking your visitors to Headwaters? We'd appreciate that, of course, but so might they. Meanwhile, I'm going to forward you a message from the Headwaters editor that will ask you to comment on OUR new design. Paybacks are hell. Daniel
10:28am March 9, 2001 George Everett -- Email:
web site: http://www.butteamerica.com I don't know how I got here but thislooks interesting. Is this a chat room or sumpin'? Do I need a shopping cart? Who's got the cookies? This Internet stuff is confusing. Good to see that most of these dot.coms are turning into not.coms and these damn Internet yahoos will soon be driving around with Pizza Hut lights on their car antennas like the rest of us.
So who's sick anyways, Sam-I-Am or Oh, Suzannah? More C and Echinacea!
