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<p class="MsoBodyText" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif">The Historical Museum at Fort Missoula Presents a New Exhibit<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><i><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif">The Odyssey of Montana's Thomas Francis Meagher
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<p class="MsoBodyText" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><i><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif">by Stephen Glueckert<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
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<p class="MsoBodyText" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif">Wednesday, October 16<sup>th</sup><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif">6pm – 8pm<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<b><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:#1C1E21">To describe Meagher’s life-journey as an odyssey is not an exaggeration. Like the legendary Odysseus, he was blown by the winds of war and fate to the four corners of the earth.
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><i><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif">“Would that he had died on the battlefield”<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:#1C1E21">This exhibit blends the line between art and history through Glueckert’s 24 colorful vignettes filled with the celestial, earthly, and man-made symbols that governed Meagher’s life and
historical content about this favorite adopted son of Montana. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<i><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif">His birth and privileged upbringing in Waterford City, Ireland in
<b>1823</b>. His leadership in the Young Irelander Rebellion of <b>1848</b>. His imprisonment in Van Diemen’s land by the British government and escape to the United States in
<b>1852</b>. A commander on the bloody battlefields of the American Civil War, leading New York’s Fighting 69<sup>th</sup> Irish Brigade. And finally, while serving as the acting MT Territorial Governor, his mysterious and tragic death at Fort Benton, in the
churning waters of the Missouri River in <b>1867</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif">Though Meagher’s time in Montana was short, he remains a source of Irish pride in our state and his story continues to capture the imaginations of Montanans of all types.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif">To complement the exhibit, The Montana Shamrockers of Polson, MT will be performing a show (6:30 to 7:30pm) that tells the incredible story, in music and word, of Thomas Francis Meagher. The Shamrockers
were recently awarded a grant from the Montana Gaelic Society to share Irish Music and Stories with Montana’s rural communities<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif">Join us for a ta-ta-ta-ra of the very first magnitude!</span></b><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif">Wednesday, October 16 from 6pm – 8pm.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif">The famous Montana Shamrockers will be playing a special Meagher set from 6:30pm – 7:30pm<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif">Meet and discuss the exhibit with Artist Stephen Glueckert and Curator Ted Hughes<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif">Event is <u>free</u> to the public with light appetizers & non-alcoholic drinks available.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif">Bring the family and enjoy a night of Irish history through art!<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/355024128710245/">https://www.facebook.com/events/355024128710245/</a><b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif">Exhibit on display September 20, 2019 through April 19, 2020</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:#1C1E21"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;background:white">Sláinte (To Health!)</span>,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Jessie<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Jessie Rogers<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Development & Communications Director <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i>Historical Museum at Fort Missoula</i><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">406-258-3479<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><i><span style="color:#333333;background:white">“While we are living in the present, we must celebrate life every day, knowing that we are becoming history with every work, every action, every deed.</span>”
<span style="color:#333333"> --- <span style="background:white">Mattie Stepanek</span></span></i><i><span style="font-size:10.5pt"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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