I have never been in Billings, MT but I've seen pictures and it looks like a fine city surrounded by great nature, a city that seems rightly nicknamed Star of the Big Sky Country. I wouldn't mind living there. The same counts for small, but sweet Douglas, WY, home of the mythical Jackalope and host of the annual Wyoming State Fair in August, "not to be confused with Cheyenne Frontier Days Rodeo held in late July."
The two towns meet here on this page because of two recent similar pieces on transracial adoption in their local newspapers, the Cut Bank Pioneer Press and the Douglas Budget. Both stories deal with white people adopting black children: a contentious, widely discussed and researched subject in adoption and child welfare circles and -- where it concerns black kids -- in the African American community.