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Jun 18, 2026 35 min

Obituary for a Small Town

from The Obit Project Hosted by Jad Abumrad and Jule Banville

Dagmar, Montana, is way up there in what’s almost Canada and almost North Dakota. She was very Danish and had a rebellious youth – at one point, she was kind of a Communist. Mostly, she was the town where the farmers came to buy groceries, go to church and pull up to the bar. But over time, those institutions closed or burned down. If a newspaper ran her obit, Megan Torgerson would be among those listed as loving survivors. She goes back home to find out: Is Dagmar really and truly dead? Reported and narrated by Megan Torgerson, UM alum and creator and host of Reframing Rural

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