Desiree and I are putting together a jigsaw puzzle of Montana. As a Montana native, the process is satisfying because I can pick up pieces and immediately recognize the town, mountain range, and know, generally, where they must be placed. At the same time, I enjoy imagining how Montana would function in the incomplete state of construction as it presently exists on my dining room table. I imagine water pooling in the places where I have failed to connect together sections of the Missouri River. How would the citizens of Missoula feel knowing I have yet to put half of the town in place? What if I put together a few pieces in the wrong way for U.S. Highway 2, and it suddenly came to a dead end along Montana’s Hi-Line? Hopefully, when we reach the end of this venture, a piece of Montana is not missing. We need all of it.
—Mitchell
Hegman
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