We're trying to make modifications. We spent months, years really, researching these products, and now they're gone. Our oysters will come from the mid-Atlantic, and instead of Zaps potato chips we'll use local Route 11.

I spend about eight months researching and outlining my book.

I spent months digging through our archives looking for unique photos of Glacier National Park. With the help of former editor Brian Kennedy and Patsi Morton (Ruder's daughter) I was able to come up with a truly unique book. Some of these gems haven't seen print in 60 years. Some were never published at all. This book was a lot of fun to put together. About half of the photos in the book are from the Ruder era, which only makes sense, since Ruder, the founder of the Hungry Horse News owned the newspaper for more than half of its 60 years.

If that a pearl may in a toad's head dwell, And may be found too in an oyster shell.

It's a wery remarkable circumstance, sir," said Sam, "that poverty and oysters always seem to go together."

He was a bold man that first eat an oyster.