Wallace Stegner and “A Society To Match The Scenery” with Charles Wilkinson

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Wallace Stegner And The Effort—The Dream—To Create “A Society To Match The Scenery”

How Well Have We Done?

Starting roughly in the early 1970s, citizens of the American West began an earnest search to understand the history and peoples of the region and its possibilities, and, ultimately, to find ways to protect the magnificence of the landscape and preserve the slow-moving, community-oriented culture of the real West.

From the beginning, Ketchum was a significant locale for that kind of thinking. Many Westerners still aim for that.

In his first of two evening presentations, Professor Wilkinson will offer some thoughts on the progress of that effort and engage the audience in a discussion of how well the West of the 2020s fits with Stegner’s formulation.

This program will be LIVESTREAMED for virtual viewing.

Charles Wilkinson is the Moses Lasky Professor of Law Emeritus at the University of Colorado. A graduate of Stanford Law School and an associate with Phoenix and San Francisco law firms, Wilkinson joined the Native American Rights Fund in 1971 as a staff attorney. Since 1975 he has taught at the Oregon and Colorado law schools, receiving many awards for teaching and research. He is the author of 14 books, including Crossing the Next Meridian: Land, Water, and the Future of the West (1992); The Eagle Bird: Mapping a New West (1992); Fire on the Plateau: Conquest and Endurance in the American Southwest (1999); Messages from Frank’s Landing: a Story of Salmon, Treaties, and the Indian Way (2000); and Blood Struggle: The Rise of Modern Indian Nations (2005.) 

He has served on the boards of The Center of the American West; the Western Environmental Law Center, the Wilderness Society; and the Grand Canyon Trust. Over the years, Wilkinson has taken on many special assignments for the Departments of Interior, Agriculture, and Justice. He served as special counsel to the Interior Department for the drafting of the 1996 Presidential Proclamation establishing the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in Utah. Wilkinson was also Special Advisor to the Bears Ears Inter-Tribal Coalition for the creation of the Bears Ears National Monument in 2016.

“Bears Ears: Creation of the First Native National Monument” with Charles Wilkinson

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“At Bears Ears We Can Hear The Voices Of Our Ancestors In Every Canyon And On Every Mesa Top”

The Creation Of The First Native National Monument

On December 8, 2016, President Barack Obama announced the designation of Bears Ears National Monument. At 1.35 million acres of public land in Utah, it was the second-largest national monument in the contiguous states. Bears Ears is glory country, a Southwest terrain of canyons, mesas, mountains, red rock formations, and long vistas. Wallace Stegner wrote that the Bears Ears landscape “fills up the eye and overflows the soul.” The area holds, and has always held, profound cultural significance for the Native peoples who live in the area

This is the first national monument ever brought forth by Indian people. They organized a grassroots coalition of five tribes—the Hopi, Navajo, Ute Mountain Ute, Northern Ute, and Zuni—that took the lead in advocating for the monument with the Obama administration. The tribes were backed up by conservation groups, the outdoors industry, scientific organizations, and countless citizens. Importantly, the proclamation provides, for the first time ever, that a major federal landholding will be collaboratively managed, by the five tribes and the Forest Service, BLM, and Park Service.

In 2017, President Trump attempted, by proclamation, to eviscerate the monument by eliminating 85% of the Obama monument. The matter is in litigation, where the tribes seem to have the better position. A ruling by the Federal District Court of Washington, DC on the legality of the Trump order is expected soon.

This program will be LIVESTREAMED for virtual viewing.

Join us for this second evening of presentations with Professor Charles Wilkinson, Moses Lasky Professor of Law Emeritus at the University of Colorado. A graduate of Stanford Law School and an associate with Phoenix and San Francisco law firms, Wilkinson joined the Native American Rights Fund in 1971 as a staff attorney. Since 1975 he has taught at the Oregon and Colorado law schools, receiving many awards for teaching and research. He is the author of 14 books, including Crossing the Next Meridian: Land, Water, and the Future of the West (1992); The Eagle Bird: Mapping a New West (1992); Fire on the Plateau: Conquest and Endurance in the American Southwest (1999); Messages from Frank’s Landing: a Story of Salmon, Treaties, and the Indian Way (2000); and Blood Struggle: The Rise of Modern Indian Nations (2005.) 

He has served on the boards of The Center of the American West; the Western Environmental Law Center, the Wilderness Society; and the Grand Canyon Trust. Over the years, Wilkinson has taken on many special assignments for the Departments of Interior, Agriculture, and Justice. He served as special counsel to the Interior Department for the drafting of the 1996 Presidential Proclamation establishing the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in Utah. Wilkinson was also Special Advisor to the Bears Ears Inter-Tribal Coalition for the creation of the Bears Ears National Monument in 2016.

Photo Credit: Bob Wick, BLM

Tech Class: eBook Overview with Paul Zimmerman

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June 10, 2020

Watch Online

Join our tech expert Paul Zimmerman for an overview of the Library’s free eBook and Audiobook apps, including Overdrive, Axis360 and RB Digital.

Have your library card and pin number handy if you’d like to follow along. If you need your card or pin number, call us at 208-726-3493 and a Librarian can assist you with this information.

The virtual presentation will begin at 5:30 p.m. on Livestream.

2020 Audacious Read: ULYSSES by James Joyce

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Third Tuesday of every Month | 3:00-4:00 p.m.

Email jdavidson@comlib.org to join this Zoom meeting.

James Joyce’s Ulysses (1922) may be more talked about than read. It occupies an intimidating position within the literary canon as a byword for experimental modernism. Joyce helped to forge its reputation, mischievously claiming, “I’ve put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that’s the only way of insuring one’s immortality.” Even Virginia Woolf, reading shortly after publication, found Ulysses a struggle, dismissing it as “diffuse,” “brackish,” and “pretentious.” Prestige is evident in its perennial placing in lists of “Great Books,” and echoed in its value to collectors. In 2009, a first edition sold at auction for £275,000, the highest sum ever achieved for a 20th-century novel. Yet its reputation for difficulty masks the extent to which Ulysses is warm, welcoming and witty, granting a uniquely intimate perspective on what it is to be human.

– Dr. Katherine Mullin

Reading Schedule

January 21 – Introduction and Episode 1, “Telemachus” (roughly pages 1-23)

February 18 – Episodes 2-6,“Nestor” | “Proteus” | “Calypso” | “The Lotus-Eaters” | “Hades” (roughly pages 24-111)

March 17 – Episodes 7-8, “Aeolus” | “Lestrygonians” (roughly pages 112-175) – *CANCELLED*

April 21 – Episode 9, “Scylla & Charybdis” (roughly pages 176-209) 

May 19 – Episodes 10-11, “Wandering Rocks” | “Sirens” (roughly pages 210-279)

June 16 – BLOOMSDAY! Episode 12, “Cyclops” (roughly pages 280-330)

July 21 – Episode 13, “Nausicaa” (roughly pages 331-365)

August 18 – Episode 14, “Oxen of the Sun” (roughly pages 366-407)

September 15 – Episode 15, “Circe” (roughly pages 408-565)

October 20 – Episode 16, “Eumaeus” (roughly pages 569-618)

November 17 – Episode 17, “Ithaca” (roughly pages 619-689)

December 15 – Episode 18, “Penelope” (roughly pages 690-732)

 

Resources

Recorded presentation by literary scholar Dr. Enda Duffy at The Community Library Lecture Hall on 7 December 2019: https://livestream.com/comlib/duffy

Free digital copy of Ulysses through Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/4300/4300-h/4300-h.htm#chap15

British Library online introduction to Ulysses: https://www.bl.uk/20th-century-literature/articles/an-introduction-to-ulysses

Online guide to Ulysses by Dr. Patrick Hastings: http://www.ulyssesguide.com/

 

The Community Library Contact

Jenny Emery Davidson

jdavidson@comlib.org

(208) 806-2620

                                    

Photo courtesy of LitHub.

 

2020 Audacious Read: ULYSSES by James Joyce

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May’s Meeting will be on ZOOM | 3:00-4:00 p.m.

Email Jenny at jdavidson@comlib.org for the Zoom Meeting Number and Password.

James Joyce’s Ulysses (1922) may be more talked about than read. It occupies an intimidating position within the literary canon as a byword for experimental modernism. Joyce helped to forge its reputation, mischievously claiming, “I’ve put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that’s the only way of insuring one’s immortality.” Even Virginia Woolf, reading shortly after publication, found Ulysses a struggle, dismissing it as “diffuse,” “brackish,” and “pretentious.” Prestige is evident in its perennial placing in lists of “Great Books,” and echoed in its value to collectors. In 2009, a first edition sold at auction for £275,000, the highest sum ever achieved for a 20th-century novel. Yet its reputation for difficulty masks the extent to which Ulysses is warm, welcoming and witty, granting a uniquely intimate perspective on what it is to be human.

– Dr. Katherine Mullin

Reading Schedule

January 21 – Introduction and Episode 1, “Telemachus” (roughly pages 1-23)

February 18 – Episodes 2-6,“Nestor” | “Proteus” | “Calypso” | “The Lotus-Eaters” | “Hades” (roughly pages 24-111)

March 17 – Episodes 7-8, “Aeolus” | “Lestrygonians” (roughly pages 112-175) – *CANCELLED*

April 21 – Episode 9, “Scylla & Charybdis” (roughly pages 176-209) 

May 19 – Episodes 10-11, “Wandering Rocks” | “Sirens” (roughly pages 210-279)

June 16 – BLOOMSDAY! Episode 12, “Cyclops” (roughly pages 280-330)

July 21 – Episode 13, “Nausicaa” (roughly pages 331-365)

August 18 – Episode 14, “Oxen of the Sun” (roughly pages 366-407)

September 15 – Episode 15, “Circe” (roughly pages 408-565)

October 20 – Episode 16, “Eumaeus” (roughly pages 569-618)

November 17 – Episode 17, “Ithaca” (roughly pages 619-689)

December 15 – Episode 18, “Penelope” (roughly pages 690-732)

 

Resources

Recorded presentation by literary scholar Dr. Enda Duffy at The Community Library Lecture Hall on 7 December 2019: https://livestream.com/comlib/duffy

Free digital copy of Ulysses through Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/4300/4300-h/4300-h.htm#chap15

British Library online introduction to Ulysses: https://www.bl.uk/20th-century-literature/articles/an-introduction-to-ulysses

Online guide to Ulysses by Dr. Patrick Hastings: http://www.ulyssesguide.com/

 

The Community Library Contact

Jenny Emery Davidson

jdavidson@comlib.org

(208) 806-2620

                                    

Photo courtesy of LitHub.

 

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