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Keeping a Holiday Tradition

Christmas Market Comes Back to Nine Mile Schoolhouse


By Anne Medley, 11-22-07

On Friday morning at 10:00, the gates to the historic Nine Mile Schoolhouse in Huson, Mont. will open for the second annual Christmas Market under new owners Kurt Cyr and Jay Zaltzman.

Cyr, who grew up in Frenchtown, left Montana after high school to attend college in Los Angeles and has worked as an interior designer ever since.

In February 2006, Cyr and Zaltzman decided to purchase the Nine Mile Schoolhouse and revive the Christmas Market, a tradition started by former owners Les and Hanneke Ippisch who ran the market for 25 years.

In this multimedia piece, NewWest.Net/Missoula photographer and reporter Anne Medley documents the evolution of the Christmas Market and the inspiration behind it.

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