All joking aside, our new logo grew out of a collaboration between the committee (Mike Forbes, Roy Curet, and Robert Logan) and one of our talented, young Kalispell contra dancers, Violet Mellin.  Violet plays mandolin in the band, “Frog Pond,” along with her brother and father, and has just started high school.  She came up with the initial design tapping her art and music backgrounds.  Over many months the logo evolved and Violet incorporated changes suggested by the committee.  Mike was our graphics point person working with Violet and contributed some of his own ideas.