Reading Wyoming: Community and the Western Landscape: Worland
Monday, May 10, 7:00 p.m., Washakie County Library
A reading and discussion series that explores the West’s diverse areas and history, facilitated by James Mims.
Book Discussion: Casper
Monday, May 10, 6:30 p.m., Natrona County Public Library
Register and pick up a copy of Riding the Edge of an Era: Growing Up [...]
Humanities Forum: Stories, Songs and Sodbusters: Buffalo
Monday, April 5, 7:00 p.m., Johnson County Library
When settlers came west, they sang of hope, adventure and Eden on the plains. They learned quickly, and soon their songs featured alkali, snakes and stampedes. Presented by Bill Rossiter.
Reading Wyoming: Canine Companions: Story
Monday, April 5, 6:30 p.m., Story Public Library
A reading [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
This week, I thought I’d highlight a few online projects/resources that explore this great nation of ours, state by state.
The 50 States Project is an online photographic tour of the country, courtesy of 50 photographers, one in each state. From their website:
Each photographer lives in one of the 50 states and during the year long [...]
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I was all set to post about something international and expansive, and I will, but today I found myself looking instead at the work of a few photographers whose work is very circumscribed: a town, a daughter, a life. And despite these seeming limitations, I found them to be just as expansive as anything else [...]
I found so much marvelous stuff on Russia last week, that it just had to spill over into another post! So, without further ado, here are two photographers who have documented Russia’s past in interesting ways.
Sergey Larenkov intermingles historical photographs of World War II’s Seige of Leningrad with contemporary photographs of the same locations. Bombed-out [...]
Today’s post is all about Russia. Why? Because I adore the blog English Russia, whose tag line is “Because something cool happens daily on 1/6 of the Earth’s surface.” And what’s not to love? The blog has a quirky sensibility. Awkward English. Images of long lines and emerging punk fashion in Soviet and post-Soviet days. [...]