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...
The annual Convention and Trade Show (PLA) is the premier gathering for leaders in the public lands sector to network, gain essential tools, and explore products that enhance the visitor experience and support conservation, preservation, and enrichment efforts.
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)
Join local author, Dick Fluehe, for a discussion and signing of his memoir, The Last Miner. This event is $5 and open to the public. All proceeds go to the literary non-profit, Brain Food Books. Copies of the book will be available to purchase at the...
Pioneer homes in western North America are often assumed to have been log cabins. Not so in Salt Lake City! Near the Great Salt Lake, on level land to be used for farming, trees were in short supply. But mud, which a few pioneers knew...