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The World is My Neighborhood: Lucy Smith's Philosophy

• David Wigginton • Episode 4

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Lucy Smith’s journey from Navy brat to global citizen offers a masterclass in building community wherever life takes you. Moving annually between military bases, she developed a philosophy at nine years old: “Walk in like you’re already everybody’s friend.” That mindset carried her through living in Japan at 23, volunteering in Africa, and eventually finding her forever home in the Flathead Valley. Along the way, she discovered that “the world is my neighborhood,” and that experiences across cultures—whether waking to temple gongs in Japan or witnessing resilience in East Africa—hold transformative lessons in humility, privilege, and connection.

Rooted in the volunteer spirit modeled by her parents, Lucy channels a lifelong commitment to service into her role as Rotary District Governor and board member for multiple foundations. Even her recreational passions fuel her purpose—century rides for polio eradication, cross-state cycling events for cancer research—because, as she says, “You can’t take it with you, and it’s a whole lot more fun to share it.” Her vision is simple but powerful: create opportunities for neighbors to come together, from parades to free concerts, where strangers become friends and community grows stronger one hello at a time.

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SPEAKER_02:

Welcome to the Heart of the Flathead, where we sit down with the change makers, the unstung heroes, and everyday folks who give this place its fault. If you live here, love here, or just want to know what makes Calisbow and the Valley tick, you're in the right place. And now here's your host, Dave Wiggleton.

SPEAKER_01:

Welcome everybody to our latest episode of Heart of the Flathead. I'm excited to introduce our guest today, Lucy Smith. Many in the community know Lucy because she is one of the more prominent do-gooders in our community working with our different nonprofit causes here and with local rotary clubs. So, Lucy, we're grateful to have you on the show today. Thanks for joining us.

SPEAKER_00:

Well, thank you. It really is an honor. I I listened to your your intro podcast and also to the first one that has aired with Mike Smith, who of course I think is a marvelous human being. So it's it's really, I'm in very big company. So thank you.

SPEAKER_01:

Absolutely, absolutely. Well, you're it's fitting. So we're we're glad that you're here. So, Lucy, you know, you you are a transplant to the Flathead Valley. You weren't born and raised here. You uh came from somewhere else. Maybe give us a give an idea where where did you come from? Where did you grow up? Maybe a little bit about your life's journey and how you ended up in Kalisbell, Montana, of all places.

SPEAKER_00:

Okay. Well, I yes, I really did come from a whole lot of other places because my dad was in the Navy. So that kind of tells you a little bit about how my childhood was. We moved at least every year, and probably more often than that. So I was born in North Carolina, and I don't remember that at all, other than when I went back for some work. And then we moved to Massachusetts. We were in Michigan, Pensacola, Florida, we were in the Great Lakes area because of, again, because of the Navy. And then we lived in Illinois. I went to school in Indiana, I moved to Colorado. Most of my family actually moved out there. We always had this thing about Rocky Mountains and the West as Midwesterners. It's a Midwest was a really wonderful place to grow up. And the mountains always still called us. So my family did move out to Colorado, and that's where I spent quite a bit of my my adult life and actually worked in the for-profit business there, and particularly export marketing, which let me go around the world, actually in a number of for a number of reasons. And then I got married in Colorado, and my husband always wanted to move to Montana. And that's actually what brought me, brought me here. So I always say, yep, it was because of a guy. So I don't know, and he was worth it. So that was great. And and I do have to say, I I had finally sort of settled in Boulder, Colorado, had a great community there. And it was, it was kind of a hard move because it was just leaving my family and and everything that had kind of started to ground me after being kind of all over the place for so long. But there is a truth in, you know, you make your home where you land, and and the flathead has become certainly a a home that I hope I never have to leave.

SPEAKER_01:

So apart from the flathead, what was your favorite place or where was your favorite place that you lived throughout all of those various destinations throughout your life?

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah. Well, I really loved, I did love Boulder, Colorado. I I I enjoyed that university town very, very much.

SPEAKER_01:

So your family's still in Boulder, though? Lucy, is that right? Is your family still there?

SPEAKER_00:

They are, they're in in that in that general vicinity of Denver Golden. Yes, Boulder. Okay. Right, right. But they've also moved back and forth and they've all just returned to that to that area. And then I also loved growing up in for a few years anyway, in New England. Remembering living in an old farmhouse and having you know big neighborhoods with with lots of room to run around and you know, the woods to to wander in. And I loved the our our time in Illinois with the creeks and and the woods there too. Gosh, you know, it's kind of hard to say there was a place I didn't like. And and I was I was, of course, a different age and and a different kind of different interests every single place. So they were all they all became an adventure. One thing I remember very clearly though is that when I was in the fourth grade and we moved again, I was going to a new school, that something in me just really didn't want to move. And it's and I was coming into my new school and I stopped on the stairway down to where the fourth grade was, and some little angel kind of gave me some wisdom that just said, you know that everywhere you've moved, you've had a new friend, and it's been, it's just been fine. You're gonna be okay. Just walk in there like you're already everybody's friend. And I think that that philosophy probably helped me as as we moved and and and also made it made it attractive for me to do things like move to Africa for a few years when I was 50, move to Japan on my own when I was 23, um, and do some of the international work that I do now, because my neighborhood is always kind of where I've landed.

SPEAKER_01:

The globe sounds like it's your neighborhood, actually. So that's great. And you and you know, one common uh thing I noticed across all of your descriptions there, those various destinations was outdoors. So creeks and woods and mountains and different things like that. So it sounds like you're an outdoor girl. Is that is that a fair assumption?

SPEAKER_00:

Very true. I I started going to my my family always camped. And then when I was a teenager, well, actually, all through my childhood, I went to a Girl Scout camp out in the woods, and we really did primitive camping. That was probably my first real job was being a camp counselor and eventually being the assistant director at that camp. So that kind of did stick with me for sure.

SPEAKER_01:

Got it, got it. What a what a great life, though. I mean, gosh, you've been around so many places. How do you think being in all those different destinations? I mean, between Africa and Japan and New England and Pensacola and Illinois, how how has that shaped who you are today and what your priorities are?

SPEAKER_00:

I I think one of the biggest things that it's it has given me is a sense of how how remarkable the world is and also how very special all our different populations are. I mean, there's something, there is something to be learned and something to really be in awe about, about every one of our cultures. And I have also noticed that when I actually just relax into or lean into the people or circumstances that I'm with, there, that it is 10 times better than maybe I was what I might have imagined or that I was worried about. I I found that really being paying attention has has made it very easy for me to be, to find the wonder in in all the places that I've lived and also with the people. Imagine the difference when you're 23 coming from the United States into old, an old enclave of Japan and living with 26 Japanese women in a dormitory and waking up to the thousand gongs at the at the temple, right, right outside your window. The food, the sounds, the language, the customs, the perspective on life, all very, very different. And they were great teachers, you know, great teachers for me. I never needed to actually become those different, you know, those those different cultures or peoples, but I could always, I could always really feel the kind of the grace that came from that. And I think that also helped when I decided to jump off the edge of the world and go to Africa for those few years as a volunteer, because that was very, very different. Those circumstances being in some of the poorest parts of those countries of Eritrea, Ethiopia, and Kenya, were remarkable teachers and huge, I mean the huge lessons that I learned in appreciating the privileges that I have always taken for granted, just by virtue of where I was born, you know, who my parents were, all those things. And then being with people who don't have any of those but still are just tremendous human beings and powerhouses in their communities.

SPEAKER_01:

Absolutely. I really like what you said early on there about being apprehensive about new environments and just giving it some time and really being able to settle in. I feel like that's such a such a truism in life, with whether you're, you know, meeting somebody new, working with somebody new, or going to live somewhere, having a new experience, is we always feel a little apprehension and we usually make a bigger deal out of it than it really is.

SPEAKER_00:

Yes, yes. I'm I'm good at that. Yes, definitely. At kind of seeing the huge, oh my gosh, and then kind of coming back, getting my feet back on the ground. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01:

Great. That's great. So what do you do now to fill your days? You're retired, and how how do you spend your time?

SPEAKER_00:

Oh, I play cards and I, you know, I I am very involved in in rotary. And of course, you know because you are the president of our club and you're doing a fabulous job, by the way. But Rotary International has been a part of my world since I was very small. Dad was a Rotarian. And so we kind of knew there was some great thing called Rotary because Dad was always going to it. And then he also was doing service trips that involved his medical career and rotary service. So I am currently the district governor for Rotary, which means that I'm the kind of the go-to, I like to say I'm the aunt for all of the Rotarians in the state of Montana for one year. And that is a that that's giving me a very, very full-time job right now, this for this particular year. But in general, the opportunities that I've had by virtue of being in the Rotary clubs has been that I've been able to meet other community leaders and volunteers and people from all walks of life who really want to do something and contribute back to their community. And also have sort of an adventurous spirit because we we can be we can be all over the world with the projects that we can help on, you know, as as libertarians.

SPEAKER_01:

And then I also Which fits in with your life experience, right? I mean all over the world. So it's very much a uh a apropos to to the Lucy Smith life experience.

SPEAKER_00:

You know, it is. It's it's a pretty comfortable thing for me, actually, because I do, as you said, I do feel like I'm a member of the world community and and I mean a very small member of it, but but I do feel like it is my neighborhood and and I've enjoyed all of those opportunities that I've had, certainly through Rotary.

SPEAKER_01:

So how how does that being a member of the world community for sort of inform or shape the way you approach working with new people or meeting new people?

SPEAKER_00:

Again, they we they don't have to be just like me. They all have there they all have something to show me, actually, and to teach me, and and vice versa, really. And the and that we that we will always find common ground or common purpose. We may, we may come from different different perspectives on things, have different ways of doing things, which is certainly true. And and it's a great way to to to give me some extra humility when I can see what other people are thinking about that maybe never occurred to me, or is it is is a level of skill or expertise, or it's just a an incredible experience, profound experience that I've never, never, you know, never known about or been familiar with.

SPEAKER_01:

Rotary, I know you're involved in lots of different organizations. I know Great Fish Challenge. I think you've been a part of that quite a bit in the past. I know the Symphony here locally, you're you're involved with. How, you know, of all these organizations, I mean, how what do they do for our community? How do they contribute or give back to the community? And what what benefits should people be aware of that these organizations bring to to our community?

SPEAKER_00:

I think one of the one of the things that we all need to stop and think about is what if those nonprofits went away? I think that's one way to kind of understand what they do for us, because when we think about all of the different areas of need that communities, community nonprofit organizations fill, I mean, they're the they're that marketplace that doesn't have a paying consumer most of the time. It's it's there, those are the needs and the the challenges that that our community has that that just need us as as again as giving members of that community to help address. So, so when you look at the, my goodness, we have over 300. I think not if we if you count churches, we have way over 400 nonprofits in the valley, but we we run everything from you know from things that are helping to to maintain our wilderness and and our natural environment to helping with with education, with children's, children's resources and and care for for seniors, for you know, for animals, the the arts, technology, you're you're right. You name you name the area where we want to where we want to enhance some aspect of our community, and there's a nonprofit that is working it. Probably a handful of them, in fact.

SPEAKER_01:

And and so do you think do you think people at large know about all of those things? Like you said, I love they enhance our community. How how do how do we build more awareness of that so people can know about these things?

SPEAKER_00:

That's a great question. I think that the I do think that the White Fish Community Foundation's Great Fish Challenge has been one new and an evolving source for that because the the spotlight is on our nonprofit community and our and our donors for six weeks at a time and actually will and actually more because of all the preparation and all the celebration afterwards. But I think that is one way that just to actually put put those nonprofits and their directors and their and their their consumers, their recipients, in the spotlight and and help us to see that, oh my gosh, yes, the library is there and is offering great programs in great part because there is the library foundation, a nonprofit that is supporting everything that they need. There's so many of those kind of behind the scenes kinds of support that that maybe go unnoticed. But we're it's a little bit like everybody in the family. You know, there's there's in the classic sense, you have mom and dad, and you know, they're they're they're going out to work and and bring back money and take care of us. And then then there's all the kids who are contributing to the household because we're doing the chores and we're taking care of the dog and you know, we're learning those things. It's a to me, it's it's a I I kind of can sense our community as as in some ways a very big and diverse family. And those nonprofits are kind of the ones who are taking care of some of those extra chores that really need to be done. And I mean chores in a very good way, you know, because we have people who need, you know, who need help and people who need care. And we also have aspects of our community, such as the the arts and music and you know that the those those special things about our community that uh that that make it that make life just richer for everyone and just make our community I guess healthier, safer. It is just they're they're also the community connectors. I guess that's a that's another way to to think about it. That think about how many of us feel great about donating or or doing some can some community service at the food bank, just as a as a small example, because it's a way for us to connect with neighbors who need our help. You know, so so it's and it's a way as as a result to for us to feel much more in common with each other.

SPEAKER_01:

The world around us just sort of happens and we don't always understand what makes that happen. Like we don't see the cogs in the in the system that that make that happen. And so a lot of these, as you mentioned, a lot of these organizations help make our community what it is and make it function and give us access to the parks and and the different things like that that we all appreciate and why we live here. So that's that's wonderful.

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SPEAKER_01:

You're obviously a very busy woman. When you have free time, what do you like to do to uh take your mind off of things and maybe recharge?

SPEAKER_00:

I have for for years I was a runner. And I always that was just the easiest way to you know to recharge was to put on my shoes and run out the door. And thoroughly loved that. The longer the run, the better. Well, well, I guess marathon is as far as I I mean, I loved those, but I don't know that I would ever be an ultra. But as I I think when it was in my mid-60s, decided it was probably time to to do something that wasn't quite so hard on my spine. And and so I still, I still walk a lot. And every time a runner passes me, I want to go, I used to do that, buddy, you know, but but it was so so I can I can jog a little bit, but I've I've changed running into bicycling. And I've always I always loved biking as a kid and all too, but now it's really kind of my that's my thing. So I hop on my bike and and ride and and so is this mountain biking or street bike, street cycling? I've I'm on road bikes and largely because probably because that's what I grew up with, and also because I've had some great chances to use that bicycling for for raising money for charities and for for becoming part of another community, another cause that's important to me. So the first one that the first big one for me for bicycling was actually rotary. It's the ride to end polio. And you can do century rides, so those are hundred-mile rides and raise money that goes right to the polio plus campaign to eradicate polio all around the world.

SPEAKER_01:

And so you so you ride a hundred miles for that that particular event.

SPEAKER_00:

Yes, that and that, and I do a couple of those. I've been doing a couple of those every year or so. So done several, maybe half dozen or more. And then also ride for Dana Farber Cancer Institute. And I have some personal connections with patients. And my dad used to refer patients to Dana Farber Cancer Institute out east. So that's a ride across the state of Massachusetts in two days, so about 200 miles in two days. And we raise millions of dollars for children's oncology and cancer research. And there are 6,000 of us, just like with the rotary ride to Antolia, there's a ton of people. So again, all of a sudden you have these new friends, this these new people sharing the cause and inspiring you even further. So it's a lot more than a ride. But but that has that's so yes, so I like to I love to ride my bike. And I did get an indoor one for Montana's winters.

SPEAKER_01:

So that I think Oh, nice, great. So like a stationary bike?

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, it's a Peloton. So so the nice part about that is I can also plug in and ride through Switzerland or you know, or Bryce Canyon or any of those kinds of things. So I do a little bit of mountain biking virtually, but that's as far as I go on that.

SPEAKER_01:

Got it, got it. So, you know, gosh, you're you're so dynamic and you're so busy with so many different things. What what motivates you to, even in your free time, to be doing things like, you know, the the ride to in polio or the the for the Dana Farber Institute in in Massachusetts? What drives you to want to help all these organizations?

SPEAKER_00:

Probably it's the way we grew up because my parents were both volunteers in their spare time. And oftentimes I would be going when when I really wanted to go to school and my big sister went to kindergarten and I was crushed, my mother started taking me along on her volunteer jobs. So we went we went to the fire station, and I think she was sewing things for for people who had whose houses had burned.

SPEAKER_01:

So it's kind of part of your DNA, really, is what it sounds like.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, and and my dad, my dad and some of his friends began started a clinic that gave free medical care to people who just couldn't afford it. So I volunteered in in his clinic as a teenager. So yeah, we just kind of we just kind of saw saw that happening. And I I think I also maybe because we moved so much and because some of some of the some of the stories that I heard from from my parents and some of the situations that we were in, I really, I really felt from a very early time that I was very lucky and and that that other people didn't have all the things that I had. They didn't have a safe, warm place to live, you know, some didn't have enough food on the table, didn't have my help. I mean, those kinds of things were were very clear just by comparison. And so so the idea that that when you have something, you share it was always really was just part of part of how we grew up. And I think, and and I I think that has only gotten to be more important to me as as time has gone on on. Just, you know, just look around. And we are, we are, we're, you know, things we take it for granted, not everybody has, not everybody enjoys. And and and and the other thought is like, what do what do you do with extra once you've once you've gone? It wouldn't it have been better to have shared it with someone and had that joy?

SPEAKER_01:

It's it's a it's a you can't take it with you, can you?

SPEAKER_00:

You can't, and it's a whole lot more fun to share it. You know, it does a whole lot more good.

SPEAKER_01:

Absolutely, absolutely.

SPEAKER_00:

That's kind of it, yeah. Makes perfect sense. And and the other thing, I guess, is you know, I I'm work on the right now, I'm on the White Fish Community Foundation board and on the college foundation board. And those are just two examples. And yes, long time with the Glacier Symphony and my my work with the you know, as the director of the Hockade Museum of Literacy Volunteers, you know, the other work. Everywhere that I was working, there were so many extraordinary people around me, you know, my colleagues, the boards, the volunteers. So it's it's kind of what's the word? You you you just get to where you kind of feed on that, you know, on all the people that you're working with and that great shared energy. And and again, so much to admire and respect about everybody else. You're just kind of just I'm just trying to keep up with the rest of you, you know, because it's I'm in great company.

SPEAKER_01:

I I hear you. And that that's really what the purpose of this podcast is. I really want to bring those people to light and share them with our community so everybody can come to know them because they are we are we are surrounded by so many remarkable people here. So speaking of our community than then Lucy, what what does a better, stronger future for our community here in the flathead look like to you?

SPEAKER_00:

I think it looks like more of the of the times when we are all together and seeing each other as neighbors. And an example really can be the great fish. It can be going to a free concert that the symphony puts on, it can be arts in the park, it can be the holiday parades with everyone there. I I think about just I as another example, the the the big tree lighting every every December in in Calisville, and I know it happens in lots of communities, just seeing the the different families and kids coming out and people sharing uh you know a hot chocolate or you know, or just just stamping their feet together to keep warm, and then you know, all of us singing at the top of our lungs, you know, Santa Claus is coming to town, all of a sudden we are not alone in our houses. We're we're just people all together and and we're and we're part of part of this town. I think we need, I think to take advantage of those kinds of opportunities, I think is truly important because it I think it helps us then, you know, when when we spend time together as friends and neighbors, then when we have to make decisions, vote on things, you know, decide policy, we may be more likely to think of each other as, you know, as this is my friend and this is my neighbor. And I I I would want to, I would want to support whatever is going to also be good for that person.

SPEAKER_01:

Very well said. Very well said. Well, we're gonna we're gonna move to the last little bit of our segment here today, Lucy. And these are the flathead five, and these are the questions that we ask all of our guests, and it's really just kind of a fun way for us to get to know even a little bit more today than we already have. So, what is your favorite hidden gem in our community?

SPEAKER_00:

Well, this community is a hidden gem, first of all, and and that is really true. Every time I return to the Floodhead, you know, you can either you're driving in and all of a sudden here's Floodhead Lake, and oh my gosh, you have to pull over just to get your heart to slow down. But same thing flying in. It's like, my gosh, what a beautiful place that we live, right? But I I one of the places that I truly love, it's and it's right down the road for us, is here in park and just going to, you know, the at the Poise to Blacktail Trails. That that that area is so accessible to so many of us, man, whether you're on a horse, you're on a bike, you know, you're walking your dog, or you're just like me, just jogging around to just be out in the in the woods. And you know, our our local state parks, I think, are some of my favorite hidden gems, largely because I can get to them in 15 minutes. As much as I love Glacier Park, you're right, I keep way too busy the schedule right now. Um, so it's nice to have something right in my backyard.

SPEAKER_01:

Accessibility is amazing we have here. I I agree with you. Okay, Grizzler Bobcats.

SPEAKER_00:

I went to Indiana University and we I remember that we actually cheered most of the Hoosier? I was a Hoosier, yeah. Absolutely. Yeah, and of course we were the NC2A champions back in Bobby Knight's days. We had Mark Spitz and the, you know, for the for the swimming. You know, I I got to take diving classes from Hobie Billingsley, who is the, you know, who's the men's Olympic diving uh coach, all kinds of great things. So and my parents, I'll tell I'll have to so I I know I'm sidestepping this, I would just have to say probably around here you better be for the grizz, because you got more of your neighbors who are who are are running to Missoula every weekend. But I my parents would support whatever college football team was nearby. So I kind of grew up that way where it was like all stripes, you know, it's like whoever's closest, that's great. So I guess that means Missoula wins.

SPEAKER_01:

All right. Grizz it is. Okay.

SPEAKER_00:

Crazy way to answer that question.

SPEAKER_01:

So I think I may know the answer to this, but what what's your favorite outdoor activity in the valley?

SPEAKER_00:

I have, I would say I don't know I I kind of went from running and swimming to riding my bike, but I I think just being outdoors, maybe hiking is for in this valley, I would say just being outside in this just this gorgeous surroundings that we have. And and so that kind of comes down to to hiking.

SPEAKER_01:

Okay. And what what do you know today that you wish you knew when you started out?

SPEAKER_00:

Oh my goodness. Probably that I don't know everything. And I and I have to say I'm I can't say that I've mastered this, but but the idea that that if we're giving the best we have, that's the best we can do. And we need to we need to be peaceful with that because it's very easy for certainly speaking for myself, to to want to do everything perfectly and just so, you know, just with with no, you know, with everything just on point. And that that doesn't really happen. It doesn't, you know, life, life works, life works its its magic in its own way. But just to to to understand that really that you can that you can give your best and that's that's that's good. That's good enough. And it's not really settling because you did your best. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01:

Absolutely. I like that. And then finally, when when your story is over, what what do you want the one or two sentence review on your book to be?

SPEAKER_00:

I'm sure everyone that you asked this question to will go, whoa, what a question. It's a great question, so good job. When I think about that question, because you did give it to us early, one of the things that I thought was, well, what is gonna be when I no longer have a chance to, you know, to say it myself or to tell someone, I hope that I will have already made it clear to all the people in my life, and certainly in this community, but really for all my years, how important they have been to me and how much I love them and how much they colored and shaped my life, and how much I respect them and enjoyed them, and um and probably right now, you know, but if I'm not here, how much I miss them.

SPEAKER_01:

Lucy, I can't thank you enough today for for coming on and joining us. This has been a great uh great time to get to know you, but it's just been an absolute delight to uh to hear about your life's experience and all the wisdom you had to share. So thank you for for being here and and uh for all that you do for our community.

SPEAKER_00:

My pleasure. Thank you, David. Thanks so much.

SPEAKER_02:

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