Guest Writers Series presents Sara Ellen Fowler, author of Two Signatures and Winner of Agha Shahid Ali Prize and Joan Naviyuk Kane, author of Ex Machina.
Jody Olsen, author of A Million Miles: My Peace Corp Journey will be speaking at the Hinckley Institute Forum on Hope, Purpose, and Service in Times of Change. Dr. Josephine (Jody) Olsen, PhD, served as the 20th Director of the Peace Corps between March, 2018 –...
The American West has long been seen as a place of rugged landscapes presenting endless opportunities. But the land is more fragile and resources more finite than popular perceptions admit. We are presenting a volume of essays, A Watershed Moment, that explores tensions between a culture of economic...
Join Village Books and North Cascades Institute in the last Nature of Writing event of 2024 with Betsy Howell as talks about her new book Wild Forest Home: Stories of Conservation in the Pacific Northwest! Growing up in the Pacific Northwest, Betsy Howell spent her childhood...
Steven Simms (Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, Utah State University) First Peoples of Great Salt Lake: A Cultural Landscape from Nevada to Wyoming B192 JFSB Education in Zion Auditorium
One of the most foundational roles that civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. served in was as a religious leader. He first served as pastor at the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama and then later became co-pastor, along with his father, of...
A new collection of essays, A Watershed Moment, reveals tensions between a culture of economic growth and personal freedom and the ecological, economic, and social constraints set by community values and the land itself. As Western communities come up against these limits, chapter authors highlight...
B192 JFSB (Education in Zion Auditorium)
Steve Kemp will visit City Lights on Thursday, August 14th to share his new book, An Exaltation of Parks: John D. Rockefeller Jr.'s Crusade to Save America's Wonderlands. America’s national parks are facing unprecedented challenges. With visitation pressures mounting and the National Park Service struggling...
This August, Kemp will be releasing his new book, An Exaltation of Parks: John D. Rockefeller Jr.’s Crusade to Save America’s Wonderlands. The book focuses on how John D. Rockefeller Jr. collaborated with renowned NPS figures Horace Albright, Stephen Mather, and Arno Cammerer to establish...