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Heather Fleming: The Social And Economic Impact Of Reading Failure In Children
Heather Fleming is the founder of WY Lit, a non-profit created to reduce the cost and socio-emotional impact of illiteracy in Wyoming. She moved from New York City to Wyoming, where is currently enrolled in master's program in Reading Science studying evidence-based...
Arielle Zibrak: On American Women Writers, Gender & Sexuality
Arielle Zibrak is a scholar of 19th and 20th century American fiction and a writer, interested in the relationship between art and politics. She has been happily living in Wyoming for the past six years, working at the University of Wyoming as an Assistant Professor...
Jennie Gordon: Getting To Know Wyoming’s First Lady
Jennie Gordon currently serves as First Lady of Wyoming. She was born in Omaha, Nebraska but vacationed in Wyoming in her childhood because her father was stationed there in the 1950s. When her father moved back to Wyoming, she agreed to stay for one summer to help...
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Celebrating Women’s Voting in Wyoming for 150 Years
On December 10, 2019, Wyoming commemorates the sesquicentennial anniversary of Wyoming Territory passing “An Act to Grant to the Women of Wyoming Territory the right of suffrage, and to Hold Office,” commonly known as the Women’s Suffrage Act. I am proud that Wyoming...
Wyoming Humanities Partners with Wyoming Women’s Foundation for Statewide Project
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Date: November 6, 2019 Contact: Emy diGrappa Emy@ThinkWY.org | 307-699-2680 FIRST, BUT LAST? A PODCAST PRODUCED AND PUBLISHED BY WYOMING HUMANITIES - A STATEWIDE PROJECT TO COMMEMORATE THE 150TH ANNIVERSARY OF WYOMING GRANTING WOMEN SUFFRAGE...
Wyoming’s Future Requires Creative Ideas
October was National Arts and Humanities Month, and along with November tends to be the busiest time for cultural programming in Wyoming. Between attending events and helping my fellow Wyomingites find out about them, the significance and impact of the creative and...
Wyoming Community Foundation Awards Grant to Wyoming Humanities
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Date: October 3, 2019 Contact: Emy diGrappa Emy@ThinkWY.org | 307.699.2680 Since the beginning of time (human time), storytelling has served a critical role as the sole means of communicating experiences and emotions in narrative form. Ancient...
What We Owe the Dead
by Keelyn Byram Cemeteries are often overlooked as something the public needs to be concerned with. However, cemeteries serve an important communal purpose and when they fall into disrepair action needs to be taken. But what can be done? There are simple things...
Three PEN/Hemingway Award Honorees To Read At Sheridan College
Join Ucross Writers Elissa Schappell, Ian Bassingthwaighte, and Ling Ma on Thursday, September 19 at 7 pm Ucross, Wyoming — September 6, 2019 — Ucross is pleased to announce that three award-winning authors, Elissa Schappell, Ian Bassingthwaighte, and Ling Ma will...
