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Wyoming Humanities Calendar, February 8-14

Monday, February 8, 2010

The Alzheimer’s Project
Monday, February 8, 6:00 p.m.
This week features “Caregivers.”
Laramie County Public Library, Cheyenne

01430366611Book Discussions
Monday, February 8, 6:30 pm
Register and pick up a copy of the book at the Library’s 2nd floor reference desk.  This month’s book is March by Geraldine Brooks.
Natrona County Library, Casper

My Horse, My Guns, My Libraries: Cheyenne
Monday, February 8, 12:00 p.m.
As Mabel Wilkinson, Lynne Swanson describes some of the adventures and difficulties of bringing libraries to Platte County and to the rest of Wyoming in the early 1900s.
Little America, Cheyenne

Powell Book Club
Monday, February 8, 6:30-7:30 p.m.
Our “Around the World in 8 Books” book discussion. Every two weeks on Monday there will be a new book discussed until May 3rd. Sign up at the Powell Branch Library. Club is limited to 15. Call 754-8828 for more information.
Powell Branch Public Library, Powell

Why We Took Off Our Corsets: Laramie
Tuesday, February 9, 1:45 p.m.
In this presentation Melanie O’Hara looks at East Coast women who traveled West, settled, and in the process, declared their independence from undergarments that impeded their new-found freedoms.
Spring Wind, Laramie

Canine Companions: Newcastle
Wednesday, February 10, 7:00 p.m.
A reading discussion series of memoirs about the relationship between man and dog, facilitated by Phyl Sundstrom.
Weston County Library, Newcastle

Voices of the Valley: River Storieshomeimg
Thursday, February 11, 7:00-8:30 p.m.
Jackson Hole Historical Society & Museum’s winter storytelling series presents inspiring tales from local icons whose livelihoods stem from the Jackson Hole landscape. Tonight’s presenters, John Simms and Tom Montgomery, will share their most memorable and sometimes unbelievable true stories as professional fly fishing and river guides for a combined eight decades on the Snake River. Cost: Free. Location: Ordway Auditorium. Contact: Adult Humanities Coordinator, Oona Doherty, 733-2164 ext. 135 or odoherty@tclib.org.
Teton County Public Library, Jackson

Remembering Sunrise Mine: Cheyenne
Thursday, February 11, 7:00 p.m.
Using historical and contemporary photographs, Mary Humstone and Sophia Beck present a history of the Sunrise mine and its community, touching upon issues including the economic and social impact of Sunrise Mine, the role of Sunrise as an exemplary community town, living conditions and daily life in Sunrise, and ethnic relations.
Wyoming State Museum, Cheyenne

Living Between Fences: Jackson
Thursday, February 11, 7:00 p.m.
The books in this reading and discussion series consider fences and divisions both in their visible form on the landscape and as metaphors for the barriers that separate us.  Stephen Lottridge leads the discussions.
Old Public Library, Jackson

Thursday Thrillers Frankenstein Film Series
Thursday, February 11, 7:00 p.m.
This week’s featured film is Bride of Frankenstein.
Albany County Library, Laramie

Student Reading
Friday, February 12, 7:00-9:00 p.m.
Fearuring:
Scott Rosenberg, poetry
Bison Messink, fiction
Quinnie Kenworthy, nonfiction
Reading with Faculty Member
Alyson Hagy author of Snow, Ashes and the new Ghosts of Wyoming
Second Story Bookstore, Laramie

Teen Movie Night
Friday, February 12, 5 p.m. - 7p.m.
Celebrate Valentine’s Day with a showing of 10 Things I Hate About You rated PG-13. Pizza provided thanks to the Friends of the Library. For 7th-12th graders.
Natrona County Public Library, Casper

Retrieving the Past: Photos from the Archives
Now on View
These 68 images are highlights from the digital collections of Jack Richard, Charles Belden and the Buffalo Bill Online Archives. The photographers Richard and Belden each captured moments of energy and action in their respective genres. Richard, a photographer from Cody, worked in the Yellowstone area from the 1940s to the 1980s, where his crisp, superbly composed images captured the Western way of life. Belden’s images were taken in the 1920s and 1930s on the legendary Pitchfork Ranch at the base of the spectacular Absaroka Mountains near Meeteetse, Wyoming. By photographing cowboys and cattle against this spectacular backdrop, he created some of the classic images of the American West.
The historic photographs taken from the Buffalo Bill Online Archive show the changing face of William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody (1846-1917) from young man living and working on the frontier to Wild West entrepreneur to aging businessman. Cody has been call one of the most photographed figures of the 19th and early 20th century - and the Buffalo Bill Archive is indeed proof to that claim.
Buffalo Bill Cody Historical Center, Cody

Paul Dyck Plains Indian Buffalo Culture Collection Preview
Now on View
Eighteen beautiful objects from the Paul Dyck Plains Indian Buffalo Culture Collection are now on view in the Plains Indian Museum Land of Many Gifts Gallery. This is the second round of objects from the collection, totaling over 2,000 artifacts, to be displayed.
Buffalo Bill Historical Center, Cody

Peter Sarkisian: Video Works, 1996-2008
January 30- May 8
Peter Sarkisian: Video Works, 1996 2008 is a small retrospective that features signature works and conveys how the artist has considered and resolved various approaches to integrating video into temporal and spatial experiences.
UW Art Museum, Laramie

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What photographs can do

Friday, February 5, 2010

susanmullallyI’ve fallen quite in love with photographer Susan Mullally’s thought-provoking project What I Keep, a series of portraits. Here is her own description of it:

This work explores ideas of class, race, ownership, value, cultural identification and faith. I collaborate with members of The Church Under the Bridge in Waco, Texas, a non-denominational, multi-cultural Christian church that has been meeting under Interstate 35 for sixteen years. Many of the people have had significant disruptions in their lives, experienced periods of homelessness or incarceration, addiction to drugs and alcohol, mental illness or profound poverty and hopelessness. Many are working toward a new measure of stability and accomplishment through the programs and opportunities offered through the church. Other members have more stable lives and are drawn to service at the Church Under the Bridge. I ask each person what he or she keeps and why it is valued.

The portraits are spare, taken under the bridge on Sunday mornings against a backdrop of gray concrete. Each subject holds or displays the one thing he or she will not discard, and each photograph is accompanied by an explanation in the subject’s own words. Mullally’s lens is both kind and thoughtful; the words and images combine to provide a compelling look at these individuals and their community.

echoStriking a very different note, the British blog Angry People in Local Newspapers is a collection of photographs of people with grievances published in, well, local newspapers. Most of the newspapers are in the UK, with a few from Australia and New Zealand sprinkled in. All of the posts include links to the original articles, providing those of us in the US with an often amusing glimpse into the daily life of other cultures: how trash collection or public transportation or local government works, or doesn’t, in English villages. Much of the anger that the photos attempt to communicate is justified; some of it is most certainly not.

Finally, Matt Logue’s award-winning book empty L.A. features photographs of Los Angeles with no people or cars. Bedrooms, beaches, parking lots, and many, many streets and highways — all uninhabited. It’s eerie, like stepping into an episode of The Twilight Zone. It’s also a jarring reminder that what makes a city a city is the humans in it.

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Wyoming Humanities Calendar, February 1-7

Thursday, February 4, 2010

The Alzheimer’s Project: Memory Tapes
Monday, February 1, 6:00 p.m.
Alzheimer’s is the second most-feared illness in America, following cancer, and may affect as many as five million Americans. While there is no cure for the disease, The Alzheimer’s Project shows there is now genuine reason to be optimistic about the future. Created by the award-winning team behind HBO’s acclaimed Addiction project, this multi-platform series takes a close look at groundbreaking discoveries made by the country’s leading scientists, as well as the effects of this debilitating and fatal disease both on those with Alzheimer’s and on their families.
Laramie County Public Library, Cottonwood Room, Cheyenne

Wednesday Writer’s Group
Wednesday, February 3, 10 a.m.
The Wednesday Writers group will meet at the library. All participants are welcome.
Natrona County Library, Casper

Yak!
Thursday, February 4, 5:00 p.m.
Frankenstein the movie will be shown at the LCCC extension in Laramie.frankenstein
LCCC Laramie Campus, Laramie

Powell Wii Event!
Friday, February 5, 8:30 a.m.- 10:00 a.m.
Every week there will be a different Wii Event. Check Powell Library Facebook account or call 754-8828 for more info.
Powell Public Library, Powell Meeting Room, Powell

Cody Wii Friday
Friday, February 5, 9 am- 5pm
6th-12th grades can play the Wii!
Cody Public Library, Cody

Retrieving the Past: Photos from the Archives
Now on View
These 68 images are highlights from the digital collections of Jack Richard, Charles Belden and the Buffalo Bill Online Archives. The photographers Richard and Belden each captured moments of energy and action in their respective genres. Richard, a photographer from Cody, worked in the Yellowstone area from the 1940s to the 1980s, where his crisp, superbly composed images captured the Western way of life. Belden’s images were taken in the 1920s and 1930s on the legendary Pitchfork Ranch at the base of the spectacular Absaroka Mountains near Meeteetse, Wyoming. By photographing cowboys and cattle against this spectacular backdrop, he created some of the classic images of the American West.
The historic photographs taken from the Buffalo Bill Online Archive show the changing face of William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody (1846-1917) from young man living and working on the frontier to Wild West entrepreneur to aging businessman. Cody has been call one of the most photographed figures of the 19th and early 20th century - and the Buffalo Bill Archive is indeed proof to that claim.
Buffalo Bill Cody Historical Center, Cody

Paul Dyck Plains Indian Buffalo Culture Collection Preview
Now on View
Eighteen beautiful objects from the Paul Dyck Plains Indian Buffalo Culture Collection are now on view in the Plains Indian Museum Land of Many Gifts Gallery. This is the second round of objects from the collection, totaling over 2,000 artifacts, to be displayed.
Buffalo Bill Historical Center, Cody

Peter Sarkisian: Video Works, 1996-2008
January 30- May 8
Peter Sarkisian: Video Works, 1996-2008 is a small retrospective that features signature works and conveys how the artist has considered and resolved various approaches to integrating video into temporal and spatial experiences.
UW Art Museum, Laramiesarkisian_large20engine20320version2011

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Because I just can’t wait for National Book Month…

Friday, January 29, 2010

Courtesy of friends and internet rambling, I’ve seen a number of interesting book sites this week. So I thought I’d pass a few along to you!

reusable-cover-artAn offshoot of the Reading the Past blog, Reusable Cover Art is a collection of book covers that incorporate the same image into their cover art. Some of the juxtapositions are funny; an image that inspired Chaucer’s Knight’s Tale is used for both an edition of the Canterbury Tales and a smutty historical romance (of which, now that I think about it, Chaucer would probably heartily approve). Others are a little more thought-provoking, as when the same image of a veiled woman is used for novels called Kleopatra and Scheherazade. In fact, the overwhelming majority of the images are of females looking feminine,  which makes Reusable Cover Art not just a curiosity, but a handy opportunity to reflect on how these images are used as a kind of shorthand, particularly when it comes to gender and race.

manga-calculusI dare anyone to resist the charms of Abebooks‘ Weird Book Room, a collection of, well, really weird books. Some, like We are the people our parents warned us against,  just have outrageous titles, but some are genuinely perplexing, like The Manga Guide to Calculus or this week’s Weird Book of the Week, Liberace: Your Personal Fashion Consultant:

Never underestimate a man in hot pants. Liberace, the globally-renowned pianist, swings his closet door open in order to coach you on the fine art of extraordinary dressing for ordinary occasions! Need something to wear to your sister’s wedding? Packing for your next Mediterranean cruise? Shopping for a new car? Rest assured, Liberace has the perfect gold lamé number or full-length cape to suit all of your needs.

Not only can you enjoy dazzling photographs of Liberace in the most outrageous of outfits, but you can also punch these photos out to play with twelve paper dolls in hilarious poses!

Ah, the cultures and subcultures that produced these artifacts! And if you happen to know of a weird book that hasn’t made it into the Weird Book Room yet, you can submit it for consideration, as people across the English-speaking world have done.

Finally, three cheers for the blog Curious Pages: recommended inappropriate books for kids, which features offbeat, out of print, abstract, and sometimes not-for-children children’s books. I was thrilled to see a new edition of The Wizard of Oz illustrated by collage artist Graham Rawle, whom I love (anyone who can create a novel exclusively out of clippings from 1960’s women’s magazines is okay by me). Curious Pages doesn’t neglect the classics; there is a post on Der Struwwelpeter (or Shock-Headed Peter), Heinrich Hoffmann’s 1845 collection of German children’s stories chock full of not-so-subtle messages about the dangers of playing with matches, sucking thumbs, going out in bad weather, etc. A nice reminder that children’s stories and fairy tales have rarely been as safe as we’ve tried to make them over the last several decades.oz1

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Wyoming Humanities Calendar, January 25- February 1

Tuesday, January 26, 2010

blowupDinner and a Movie Series
Monday, January 25, 6 pm
The featured film will be Blow-up. Thomas, a successful fashion photographer inadvertently stumbles upon a murder while scouting for fresh photo subjects in this 1966 film by writer/director Michelangelo Antonioni. Deane Tucker, Professor of Humanities at Chadron State College will facilitate the discussion.
Niobrara County Public Library, Lusk

Mystery Book Discussions
Wednesday, January 27, 6:30 pm
Register and pick up a copy of the book at the Library’s 2nd floor reference desk.  This month’s book is Double Whammy by Carl Hiaasen.
Natrona County Public Library, Casper

Voices of the Valley: Backcountry Stories
Thursday, January 28, 7:00 pm-8:30 pm
Jackson Hole Historical Society & Museum’s winter storytelling series presents inspiring tales from local icons whose livelihoods stem from the Jackson Hole landscape. Tonight’s presenters will share their most memorable and sometimes unbelievable true stories: Rod Newcomb, valley native, American Avalanche Institute founder; Don Carpenter, AAI co-owner and avalanche instructor; Sarah Carpenter, AAI co-owner, instructor and ski guide; and Kirby Williams, ski patroller. Cosponsored by the Teton County Library Foundation. Cost: Free. Location: Ordway Auditorium. Contact: Adult Humanities Coordinator, Oona Doherty, 733-2164 ext. 135 or odoherty@tclib.org.
Teton County Public library, Jackson

Reading Wyoming: Canine Companions: Cokeville
Thursday, January 28, 7:00 pm
A reading discussion series of memoirs about the relationship between man and dog, facilitated by Steve Beck.
Cokeville Branch Library, Cokeville

Author Philip Gourevitch
Thursday, January 28, 7:00 pm
Laramie County Library, Cheyenne

Humanities Forum: Intro to Islam: Cheyenne
Sunday, January 31, 12:30 pm
Seth Ward surveys the basic tenets of Islam along with the origins and dynamics of local Muslim communities.
Mt. Sinai Congregation, Cheyenne

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Malcolm X’s Daughter to Speak at UW Tonight!

Thursday, January 21, 2010

shabazzwebIlyasah Shabazz, daughter of Malcolm X, will deliver the keynote address for the University of Wyoming’s annual Martin Luther King Jr./Days of Dialogue celebration tonight at 7:30 p.m.  in the Wyoming Union Ballroom. From the university’s web site:

Author of the book “Growing Up X,” Shabazz is committed to developing educational programs that foster self-empowerment; expanding the role of government to teach individual responsibility for improving society; and capitalizing on the arts and entertainment to encourage the understanding of history, culture and self expression.

She is the daughter of Malcolm X, an African-American Muslim minister, public speaker and human rights activist. To his admirers, he was a courageous advocate for the rights of African Americans, but his detractors accused him of preaching racism, black supremacy and violence. Malcolm X has been described as one of the greatest and most influential African Americans in history. Shabazz was only 2 years old and present when her father was assassinated in 1965 in New York.

Shabazz produces “The WAKE-UP Tour,” her exclusive youth empowerment program designed to inspire young people to think and act critically to safeguard their futures. She also is corporation president and trustee of her parents’ legacy, The Malcolm X and Dr. Betty Shabazz Memorial, Educational and Cultural Center, Inc. at The Audubon, the place of her father’s assassination.

The full news release is available here. For more information about this week’s events, visit the Days of Dialogue page on the University of Wyoming web site.

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Wyoming Humanities Calendar, January 18-24

Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Independent Film Series
Tuesday, January 19, 6:30 p.m.
The showing this week will be Lake Tahoe, and it is in Spanish with English subtitles.
Natrona County Public Library, Casper

Canine Companions: Laramie
Tuesday, January 19, 6:30 p.m.
A reading discussion series of memoirs about the relationship between man and dog, facilitated by Margaret Garner. The book will be Merle’s Door by Wyoming author Ted Kerasote.
Albany County Public Library, Laramie

Humanities Forum: My Horse, My Gun, My Libraries: Pine Bluffs
Tuesday, January 19, 7:00 p.m.
As Mabel Wilkinson, Lynne Swanson describes some of the adventures and difficulties of bringing libraries to Platte County and to the rest of Wyoming in the early 1900s.
Pine Bluffs Branch Library, Pine Bluffs

Reading Wyoming: Minority Experience in America, Sheridan
Tuesday, January 19, 7:00 p.m.
Katie Curtiss leads this reading and discussion group.  Contact the library for more information or to borrow a book.
Sheridan County Fulmer Public Library, Sheridan

Reading Wyoming: Crime and the Cultural Landscape, Kemmerer
Tuesday, January 19, 7:00 p.m.
The books in this series-mysteries- provide readers with the opportunity to examine the beliefs and mores of different communities and eras.  The featured book this week is The Maltese Falcon, by Dashiell Hammett.  Discussion leader: Katie Beppler.
Lincoln County Library, Kemmerer

Philip Gourevitch Presentation
Wednesday, January 20, 5:00 p.m.
Award-winning author Philip Gourevitch will discuss his work Wednesday, Jan. 20, at 5 p.m. in the University of Wyoming Union ballroom, as part of the university’s 2010 Martin Luther King/Days of Dialogue activities. He will answer audience questions and sign books following the presentation. The event is free and open to the public.

Reading Wyoming: Rural in America, Cheyenne
Wednesday, January 20, 6:30 p.m.
All of the books in this discussion series offer both romantic and realistic views of rural life.  Rose Wagner leads the discussions.
Wyoming State Museum, Cheyenne

Martin Luther King Jr./Days of Dialogue Keynote Address: Ilyasah Shabazz
Thursday, January 21, 7:30 p.m.
Ilyasah Shabazz, the third daughter of slain Muslim leader Malcolm X, is the keynote speaker at the eighth annual Martin Luther King Jr. and Days of Dialogue celebration, Jan. 18-22, at the University of Wyoming. Shabazz is an author, lecturer and human rights activist. The event is free and open to the public.
Union Ballroom, University of Wyoming, Laramie

Reading Wyoming: Living Between Fences, Jackson
Thursday, January 21, 7:00 p.m.
The books in this reading and discussion series consider fences and divisions both in their visible form on the landscape and as metaphors for the barriers that separate us.  Stephen Lottridge leads the discussions.
Old Public Library, Jackson

What’s News: Jackson
Thursday, January 21, 12:00-1:30 p.m.
Bring a lunch and join us from noon to 1:30 at the Teton County Library, tracking print and online news with local editors and occasional visiting editors, journalists, and scholars.
Teton County Library, Jackson

Crime Scenes & Aftermaths: Reporting & writing from Rwanda to Hell’s Kitchen to Abu Ghraib and Beyond with Philip Gourevitch
Friday, January 22, 7:00 p.m.
Author Philip Gourevitch reads from his books and talks about how he got the stories and what is at stake in them — politically, morally and dramatically. Gourevitch is an award-winning author of books on the Rwandan genocide and Abu Ghraib, an intrepid correspondent for The New Yorker and editor of The Paris Review. He is the 2009-2010 Eminent Writer in Residence for the MFA program in Creative Writing at the University of Wyoming, a copresenter with the Jackson Hole Writers Conference. Cost: Free. Location: Ordway Auditorium. Contact: Adult Humanities Coordinator, Oona Doherty, 733-2164 ext. 135.
125 Virginian Lane, Jackson WY 83001

Inspired by Yellowstone: Sundance
Friday, January 22, 7:00 p.m.
This council-funded documentary explores Yellowstone’s art history through Thomas Moran and William Henry Jackson, whose art supported the campaign to make Yellowstone the world’s first national park.
Crook County Library, Sundance

Inspired by Yellowstone: Casper
Saturday, January 23, 12:00 p.m.
This council-funded documentary explores Yellowstone’s art history through Thomas Moran and William Henry Jackson, whose art supported the campaign to make Yellowstone the world’s first national park.
Fort Caspar Museum, Casper

Charlie Williams: The Noise Guy Presents The Age of Disco
Saturday, January 23, 2:00 p.m.
Laramie County Library, Cottonwood Room, Cheyenne

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Resolution

Thursday, January 14, 2010

economistCatching up on my reading after the holidays, I came across an article in The Economist on the idea of progress. After positing that governance, specifically “a democratic system of laws and social institutions,” is the “junior partner” in creating moral progress, the author turns to what he calls the “fundamental engine of progress—’moral sensibility’”:

“The very idea probably sounds quaint and old-fashioned, but it is the subject of a powerful recent book by Susan Neiman, an American philosopher living in Germany. People often shy away from a moral view of the world, if only because moral certitude reeks of intolerance and bigotry. As one sociologist has said “don’t be judgmental” has become the 11th commandment.

But Ms Neiman thinks that people yearn for a sense of moral purpose. In a world preoccupied with consumerism and petty self-interest, that gives life dignity. People want to determine how the world works, not always to be determined by it. It means that people’s behaviour should be shaped not by who is most powerful, or by who stands to lose and gain, but by what is right despite the costs. Moral sensibility is why people will suffer for their beliefs, and why acts of principled self-sacrifice are so powerful.”

synapsesThe other article that caught my eye this week came from a special section on education in the Sunday, January 3 edition of the New York Times (followed shortly by a thoroughly depressing article on “Making College ‘Relevant,’” but whatever, you can’t win ‘em all). Anyway, in “How to Train the Aging Brain,” Barbara Strauch looks at current research on how to improve brain function in middle age. Here’s what she finds:

Educators say that, for adults, one way to nudge neurons in the right direction is to challenge the very assumptions they have worked so hard to accumulate while young. With a brain already full of well-connected pathways, adult learners should “jiggle their synapses a bit” by confronting thoughts that are contrary to their own, says Dr. [Kathleen] Taylor, who is 66.

Teaching new facts should not be the focus of adult education, she says. Instead, continued brain development and a richer form of learning may require that you “bump up against people and ideas” that are different. In a history class, that might mean reading multiple viewpoints, and then prying open brain networks by reflecting on how what was learned has changed your view of the world.

“There’s a place for information,” Dr. Taylor says. “We need to know stuff. But we need to move beyond that and challenge our perception of the world. If you always hang around with those you agree with and read things that agree with what you already know, you’re not going to wrestle with your established brain connections.”

I blame the fact that I was drawn to these two very different articles on the arrival of the new year. It is good to ask ourselves periodically whether and why we should keep doing what we do, and we are primed for such self-analysis at this time of year.

So, then, why? Why should I keep coming in to work at the Wyoming Humanities Council? As an organization, why should we keep supporting cultural institutions across the state as they work to present new ideas to their communities? Why should we keep running programs of our own that ask “the big questions”?

And, lo and behold, I was presented with these two answers! The Times article reminded me that new ideas — even ideas with which we violently disagree — force us to develop, whether they inspire us when we’re young or challenge us when we’re older. The tricky bit, of course, is that this can only happen when we’re not merely gritting our teeth and enduring other points of view but actively engaging them. At their best, the programs provided and supported by the Wyoming Humanities Council create a forum for exactly that kind of discourse. New ideas make us better, down to the neural pathways in our brains.

The article in The Economist takes an even broader view, claiming that a well-developed moral sense on an individual level is what drives social progress. Think about that for a minute. The parents described in “Making College ‘Relevant’” are obsessed with defining the jobs their children will have four years from now, but what about the world they’ll be working in? Literature moves us to empathy. Philosophy prepares us to think well in new circumstances. History gives our thought context. And so on. The humanities can help us develop the “moral sensibility” that guides social progress.

In short, yes, I’ll be coming in to work next week.

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Wyoming Humanities Calendar, January 11-17

Monday, January 11, 2010

Humanities Forum: Happily Ever Aftering on a 1920’s Cattle Ranch
Tuesday, January 12, 7:00 pm
Presentation by John Clayton. When bestselling Wyoming novelist Caroline Lockhart decided to retire to her very own homestead, she set in motion a conflict: the happy endings of her romantic fictions and the realities of a single woman running a drought-ridden ranch.
Big Piney Branch Library, Big Piney

Voices of the Valley: Stories of Skiing Through the Generations
Thursday, January 14, 7:00 pm
Pepi Steigler and Tommy Moe, Gold Medal Olympic skiers and employees of Jackson Hole Mountain Resort of different generations, share stories at the Wort Hotel, Jackson Room, Thursday, January 14, 7-8:30 pm. Refreshments provided. FREE. “Jackson Hole Stories: Voices of the Valley” is a five-part oral history program. Each program’s speakers share stories of their expertise: alpine skiing, backcountry skiing, dude ranch outfitting, fishing/river guiding, and playing music professionally.
Wort Hotel, Jackson

Teen Anime Club
Thursday, January 14, 7:00 pm
Campbell County Public Library, Gillette

Poetry Jam
Friday, January 15, 7:00 pm
Poets and musicians please arrive EARLY! Uncensored. High School & up. Refreshments and RefreshING!
Sweetwater County Library, Green River

Anne Muller Photography Exhibit: Land. Trust. Ranching in Their Hands
Through January 28
Teton County Public Library, Jackson

Let it Snow Reading Program
December 10, 2009 – March 31, 2010
Read or listen to 10 or more library books to complete the program.  Everyone who finishes the program will receive a flexible reading light.  Read 5 more books and enter a drawing for a grand prize.  Come to the “Let it Snow Somewhere Else Party” this spring just for participating.
Lincoln County Library, Kemmerer and Star Valley Branch Library, Star Valley

Retrieving the Past: Photos from the Archive
Now on view
In the photography exhibition, Retrieving the Past: Photos from the Archive, 68 images were selected for exhibition to reveal the diversity of the collection to the public, as well as the capabilities of the library’s new digitization program.
Buffalo Bill Historical Center, Cody

Paul Dyck Plains Indian Buffalo Culture Preview
Now On View
Eighteen beautiful objects from the Paul Dyck Plains Indian Buffalo Culture Collection are now on view in the Plains Indian Museum Land of Many Gifts Gallery. This is the second round of objects from the collection, totaling over 2,000 artifacts, to be displayed.
Buffalo Bill Historical Center, Plains Indian Museum, Cody

African Perspectives: Through the Eyes of Nancy-Carroll Draper
Now On View
Featuring more than thirty images taken by Nancy-Carroll Draper (1922-2008), African Perspective: Through the Eye of Nancy-Carroll Draper - A Tribute to Vision, is an interactive, digital experience presented on a 47-inch monitor. The exhibition allows visitors to select and view images; see the details and further deepen their experience of the beauty and wildness of Africa.
Buffalo Bill Historical Center, Draper Museum of Natural History, Cody

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Wyoming Humanities Calendar, January 4-10

Monday, January 4, 2010

Teen Tuesday: Anime Club
Tuesday, January 5, 4:00 pm
Natrona County Public Library, Casper

Winter Film Series: Yellowstone: Winter
January 5, 8, 10, 2:00 p.m.
National Museum of Wildlife Art, Jackson

Teen Book Club: The Hunger Games
Tuesday, January 5, 7:00 p.m.
Laramie County Library, Sage Room, Cheyenne

Historical Poetry, with Steve Adelson
Sunday, January 10, 2:00 p.m.
Sheridan County Fulmer Library, Inner Circle, Sheridan

Anne Muller Photography Exhibit: Land. Trust. Ranching in Their Hands
Through January 28
Teton County Public Library, Jackson

Let it Snow Reading Program
December 10, 2009 – March 31, 2010
Read or listen to 10 or more library books to complete the program.  Everyone who finishes the program will receive a flexible reading light.  Read 5 more books and enter a drawing for a grand prize.  Come to the “Let it Snow Somewhere Else Party” this spring just for participating.
Lincoln County Library, Kemmerer and Star Valley Branch Library, Star Valley

Retrieving the Past: Photos from the Archive
Now on view
In the photography exhibition, Retrieving the Past: Photos from the Archive, 68 images were selected for exhibition to reveal the diversity of the collection to the public, as well as the capabilities of the library’s new digitization program.
Buffalo Bill Historical Center, Cody

Paul Dyck Plains Indian Buffalo Culture Preview
Now On View
Eighteen beautiful objects from the Paul Dyck Plains Indian Buffalo Culture Collection are now on view in the Plains Indian Museum Land of Many Gifts Gallery. This is the second round of objects from the collection, totaling over 2,000 artifacts, to be displayed.
Buffalo Bill Historical Center, Plains Indian Museum, Cody

African Perspectives: Through the Eyes of Nancy-Carroll Draper
Now On View
Featuring more than thirty images taken by Nancy-Carroll Draper (1922-2008), African Perspective: Through the Eye of Nancy-Carroll Draper - A Tribute to Vision, is an interactive, digital experience presented on a 47-inch monitor. The exhibition allows visitors to select and view images; see the details and further deepen their experience of the beauty and wildness of Africa.
Buffalo Bill Historical Center, Draper Museum of Natural History, Cody

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