Friday, February 26, 2010
Fort Washakie School and Community Library has been awarded a coveted invitation to attend the March 4-7 National Humanities Council summit, “Picturing America in Our Nation’s Libraries,” in conjunction with PBS’s “Celebration of Teaching and Learning.”
Wyoming will be represented exclusively by Fort Washakie Library, which benefited from a Wyoming Humanities Council Picturing America grant for [...]
Monday, February 22, 2010
Great Decisions: Global Crime
Monday, February 22, 6:00-7:00 p.m.
Monday is foreign policy night at the library! Tonight’s video & discussion: Global Crime. From the booming sex trade in Eastern Europe, to online fraud syndicates in Africa and the drug cartels of Asia and Central America, crime is becoming increasingly organized and globalized. How can countries better [...]
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Independent Film Series
Tuesday, February 16, 6:30 pm
Munyurangabo – Kinyarwanta with English subtitles (Rwanda)
After stealing a machete from a market in Kigali, Munyurangabo and his friend, Sangwa, leave the city on a journey tied to their pasts. Munyurangabo wants justice for his parents who were killed in the genocide, and Sangwa wants to visit the home [...]
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Friday, February 12, 2010
Today’s post comes to us courtesy of John Agricola, our graduate assistant!
This week I hope to direct our attention to some intriguing preservation issues in the news of Wyoming and its surrounding areas. A recent study ranked Wyoming seventh out of the eight states considered to be part of the Rocky Mountain Region, just behind [...]
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The Alzheimer’s Project
Monday, February 8, 6:00 p.m.
This week features “Caregivers.”
Laramie County Public Library, Cheyenne
Book 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 [...]
I’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 [...]
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 [...]