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I don't have any personal experience with the Murray Hotel, but from the website, it looks pretty fancy!
Weather it's old murals, old signs, historic brick buildings, or a taste of the old west you are looking for you will find it in Livingston Montana. The feeling of this town is like none other--very historic and unique! Unfortunately (here is the down side to the town) the celebrities and the rich have moved in on the entire area driving up housing and land prices and main street is slowly transforming into a place it has never been--every other store is now an art gallery. There are many sporting goods stores. Gone are many of the original businesses. Most of the restaurants are serving ridiculously over priced fancy food that would never be what you would authentically find in Montana. Livingston is transforming from an amazing old west mountain town to a celebrity filled typical tourist getaway.
HOWEVER this town is really still worth a visit! The feeling of the town is still quite nice and authentic (although that is changing fast). The surrounding landscape is incredibly beautiful, plus, when you turn off the interstate at Livingston you can take highway 89 all the way down to Gardiner--the gate way to Yellowstone!
The history of Livingston is really worth a read:
"Livingston evolved from a trading post on the Yellowstone River called Benson’s Landing which was approximately 3 miles (4.8 km) downstream from present day Livingston. In July 1882 when Northern Pacific Railway contractors arrived the trading post was renamed ‘’Clark City’’ for contractor Heman Clark. The railroad officially reached Clark City on November 22, 1882. At that time, the community moved to its present location upstream from the trading post and was renamed Livingston in honor of a Northern Pacific Railway stockholder and director, Johnston Livingston (1875–81 and 1884–87)[2]. Livingston became the original gateway to Yellowstone National Park, which the NPR began promoting heavily to visitors from the East, by way of a branch running some sixty miles south to first the Cinnabar station and later Gardiner. Livingston was also headquarters for the NPR's Central Division and a good location for railroad shops to service NPR steam trains before their ascent over the Bozeman Pass, the highest point on the line 5,702 feet (1,738 m)[3].
Livingston is situated on the Yellowstone River where it bends from north to east toward Billings, and in proximity to Interstate 90. In 1806 Captain William Clark of the Lewis and Clark Expedition camped on the city's present outskirts on the return trip east, following the descending Yellowstone River. Clark's party rejoined the Lewis party at the confluence with the Missouri River, near Williston, North Dakota.
Though a small city, Livingston is home to a number of popular tourist points. The Livingston Depot, built in 1902 after two predecessors, is a restored rail station that today houses a railroad museum from approximately May through September. The Yellowstone Gateway Museum documents regional history from one of the oldest North American archaeological sites to Wild Western and Yellowstone history. The International Fly Fishing Federation's museum is an extensive introduction to a popular game sport and hosts annual enthusiasts meetings. The city was inhabited for two decades by Calamity Jane and visited by adventurous traveling members of European royalty. Today it is a small art haven, filming location (A River Runs Through It, The Horse Whisperer, Rancho Deluxe, and others), fishing destination, railroad town, and writers' and actors' colony. In 1938, Dan Bailey, an eastern fly-fisherman, established his Dan Bailey's Fly Shop and mail order fly tying business on Park Street where it still resides today[4]. Livingston is also the home of the Fly Fishing Discovery Center, a museum operated by the Federation of Fly Fishers[5]. Actors Peter Fonda, Margot Kidder, as well as Saturday Night Live alumnus Rich Hall, musician Ron Strykert, novelist Walter Kirn, and poet Jim Harrison live in the city. Jimmy Buffett mentions Livingston in multiple songs.
Its economy is booming, the unemployment rate is well below the national and state average. A small proportion of its workforce commutes to Bozeman, the destination resort Chico Hot Springs some twenty-five miles south, and various campsites and ranches in the high-value area of Paradise Valley. Recently, the city has invested much time and money into creating attractions and accommodations for tourists visiting during the Lewis and Clark bicentennial years. It has a sister-city relationship with Naganohara, Japan."- Wikipedia
For more information on Livingston Montana visit their website!
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Mark Baratelli:
Blogs
Creativitity: marketing
The Orlando Arts Blog: arts
Texting While Driving: personal
About
Mark Baratelli loves working in New and Social Media. He's produced viral video for El Pollo Loco, podcasts for AOL and Lexus and spec podcasts for Maxim, Hilton and Armstrong Flooring. His comedic viral site www.dabreakupsong.com earned a 2006 Webby Award Honorable Mention.
Mark Baratelli is elated to be Producing the 2007-08 Fringe website after working as the Fringe's Social Marketing Manager for 2006-07. During that time, he created content for and marketing through the first official Orlando Fringe myspace profile. He also created and managed the Orlando Fringe's first Video Podcast and the over 25-episode Audio Podcast that featured interviews with many of the 2007 Orlando Fringe artists.
In his spare time, he is the Editor of The Orlando Arts Blog and the Producer ofThe Orlando Arts Podcast, The Lady Raptastic Show and the The How Do You Feel Show, which might be the basis for his 2008 Orlando Fringe show (if he is chosen in the lottery!)He is also the Creator of the concept of a one-man improvised cabaret act. He's taken his concept, Mark Baratelli's ImprovCabaret to many cities like New York City, San Francisco and Miami to rave reviews.