The Land of the Horse People

The presentation for our April meeting will be Jan Bullock. Jan grew up in western Massachusetts and earned a BS in Wildlife/Fisheries Biology from the University of Massachusetts. She studied Eastern coyote behavior in Massachusetts and snow leopards in the Himalayas. She also became a Licensed Veterinary Nurse. Jan then lived in Alaska for twenty-six years, seventeen of them in a one-room cabin off the road system, using solar and wind power. She had thirty-three sled dogs and two horses. Jan served as the Head Vet Tech for the Iditarod Sled Dog Race for twenty years. In 2013, she retired from the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, as a Research Fisheries Biologist and then moved to Hamilton in 2014. She is currently working part-time as a Veterinary Nurse and living in Hamilton with her husband, Ed, five cats, two dogs, and five horses.

Jan always wanted to visit the land of the horse people in Mongolia. She met someone, online, who lived there and started planning her trip. She spent one week working with children at a summer camp and eleven days on a pack trip by horseback. She visited the oldest monastery in Mongolia and lived with a traditional Mongolian family for two weeks. Jan also went to see the Przewalski’s horses. She’s planning on going back this September. Jan will be presenting photos of her trip and telling us a bit about Mongolian history, culture, and present-day happenings. She’ll bring traditional Mongolian art and clothing to show us.  

This meeting will be in person, at the Bitterroot Valley Church of the Nazarene's Neely Center, 150 South A Street Victor. Note that it is not at the church itself but at their Neely Center, in the gym. The gym door is on the south side of the building.  The meeting will begin at 7 p.m.