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Tara Baker: Sexual Harassment in the Wildland Firefighting Communities
Tara Baker is a business owner, entrepreneur, artist, and a former wildland firefighter and EMT. In this episode, you’ll hear about Tara’s experience with sexual harassment as a firefighter, how the #metoo movement motivated Tara to speak up, and the state of women’s...
Diane Shober: A Woman With A Passion And Purpose For Wyoming
Diane Shober is the Executive Director of the Wyoming Office of Tourism and a nationally recognized tourism leader. She is engaged in state and federal initiatives centered on progress, innovation, and growth. She grew up in Gillette, Wyoming. In this episode, we talk...
Audrey Cotherman: 89, A Wyoming Writer And Voice Of Wisdom And Humor
Audrey Cotherman is an author and writer for the Casper Star Tribune. She is 89 years old and has lived in Wyoming since 1960. In this episode, we talk about how Audrey got involved with the League of Women Voters, her experience with gender discrimination working in...
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Blog: A Closer Look
Paniolos, Columbus, and Language’s Power
Summer in Wyoming means rodeo season. Speaking to C-SPAN, Sheridan Mayor Roger Miller noted that the entire city operates around, with, and for the rodeo during the Sheridan WYO Rodeo. History was made just recently at the Cody Stampede. Rodeo and the West are...
The Capitol Grand Re-Opening: the Importance of Our History and Heritage
It was a magnificent day. The crystal clear blue sky set the stage and the cheerful, buzzing anticipation of the crowd was not dulled in the slightest by the mid-summer heat. Standing in the audience as close to the front as I could get, I couldn’t help but think that...
Wyoming Humanities’ 2019 Summer Reading List
During your summer travels, hikes, and hang outs, don't forget to bring a book! Here are some recent reads by Wyoming Humanities board and staff to get you started: Nancy Guthrie, Board Member: I just finished listening to Jon Meacham and Tim McGraw narrate their book...
“Hearts of Glass” to Tour Wyoming
On June 1, Wyoming Humanities cohosted the premiere of the documentary film, Hearts of Glass, to a standing-room only audience of enthusiastic supporters at the Jackson Center for the Arts. The feature-length documentary about a big idea from small-town Wyoming has...
Meet Wyoming Humanities’ new board members!
“The Brontes had their moors, I have my marshes”: on Lorine Niedecker’s poetry
As we head into the calmer end of Spring and the green of early Summer, I find myself turning to the poetry of Lorine Niedecker. While less well-known than other 20th century American poets such as William Carlos Williams, Marianne Moore, or Ezra Pound, Niedecker’s...
