Notes from the artist

Somers was a milltown, growing up around the sawmill that specialized in producing railroad ties.  Its location on the north end of Flathead Lake provided easy transport for the logs.  They were skidded to the water from the forested  hills surrounding the lake and linked together into huge rafts of logs.  These were towed to the mill by small tug boats.  This is the mansion carriage house that still crowns the top of the hill in the small town by the lake. 

Somers End heralds the last of summer and the beginning of the long, cold, Montana winter.

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