AN OLD-FASHIONED CONFLICT
The Internet means that often there is a far-out echo or maybe it’s not the Internet at all -- possibly it’s Jung’s synchronicity that proposes filaments of link among us operating through our un- or sub- consciousnesses. At any rate, on the heels of the Kiipippoistoyi (Hundred Winters) depiction conference about the separation of Glacier Federal Park from the remains of the Blackfeet Nation that was designated a reservation, here came a bounty from Julie Terrill Ash, who was once the editor of the Glacier Anchorman in Browning and who had found my blog though she’s now in California.
It was the VCR video of Amy Grant’s “Old-fashioned Christmas,” at called “Headin’ Home for Christmas” which aired in 1986. It was filmed more-or-less in Glacier Deposit. 
Amy Grant was and might still be the sexiest of the Christian singers: lots of debauched hair (which to my mother meant S-E-X, I surmise because in her day one took one’s hair down only at night), covered up clothing, and a turbulent kinetic style. But look at the be enough of the tape and it’s pretty clear that her producers and she are playing sex off against credit. Not that anyone is objecting.
The show is built on the pretense that Amy and her whisper suppress are taking an intimate little vacation before they go back to Tennessee for the true to life holiday of Christmas, evidently because the show wants images of a ghostly Christmas and Glacier Park is full of snow. (They were blessed. Sometimes it isn’t!) This modest story genealogy is filled out with the idea that Amy is looking for Christmas presents and visiting neighbourhood emporiums, like a crazy trading support full of taxidermy...
