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American Heritage Center
Ninth Annual Symposium 

September 28-29, 2000
University of Wyoming

Packaging Places: Imagining, Remembering, and Promoting Landscapes

 
Charles J. Belden collection, American Heritage Center
Charles J. Belden collection, American Heritage Center

 
Wyoming Council for the Humanities Partial funding provided by the Wyoming Council for the Humanities

Symposium Photo Exhibit

Where:  Stock Growers' Room, both days

"Western Vistas:  Natural and Cultural Landscapes in the American West"

Agenda

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 2000

12:00-1:00 p.m.

Registration in American Heritage Center Lobby

1:00-2:30 p.m.

The Nature of "Our" Place: Environment, Perception, and Representation in Three Colorado Communities

Where:  Stock Growers' Room, 2nd Floor

Moderator:  David Wrobel

  • "Craig Remembers: Nature and the Defeat of Community on Colorado’s High Plateau" -- Julia Hobson, University of Colorado, Boulder
  • "Aspen: Real Estate Advertisements, Perception, and the Commodification of Place" -- Edward Duke Richey, University of Colorado, Boulder
  • "Struggle for the Spirit: Sensing Place and Seeing the Natural in Estes Park, Colorado" -- Alice K. Wondrak, University of Colorado, Boulder

History Re-packaged for Tourists

Where:  Sheep Industry Room, 5th Floor

Moderator:  Phil Roberts

  • "The Hanging Tree and the Gallows: Marketing the Myth of ‘Frontier Justice’ in the Western Landscape" -- Juliet L. Galonska, Cuyahoga Valley National Recreation Area, Brecksville, Ohio & Leslie A. Przybylek, Fort Smith Museum of History, Fort Smith, Arkansas
  • "Tourism vs. History: A Study of the Mansfield Roller Mill State Historic Site" -- Micki Morahn, Mansfield Roller Mill State Historic Site, Indiana
  • "Terrorism as Heritage? Remembering the Molly Maguires" -- Philip Jenkins, Pennsylvania State University

3:00-4:30 p.m.

Packaging Cultural Landscapes

Where:  Sheep Industry Room, 5th Floor

Moderator:  Nancy Weidel

  • "Naming Places:  Reshaping and Remodeling Through Local Linguistic Practices" -- Lisa Gabbert, Indiana University, Bloomington

  • "The Invisible Highway:  Representation, Nature, and the Automotive Parkway" -- Jeremiah Borenstein Axelrod, University of California, Irvine

  • "Great Picture Windows on Appalachian Life: Packaging Natural and Cultural Landscapes in the Creation of the Blue Ridge Parkway" -- Anne Mitchell Whisnant, Chapel Hill, North Carolina

         Western Landscapes

         Where:  Stock Growers' Room, 2nd Floor

         Moderator:  Carol Bowers

  • "A Study and Comparison of Western Artists: Both the Artists Who Actually Visited the West and Those Who Did Not" -- Paul Bennett, University of Wyoming

  • "Native American Education: A Conflict of Two Cultural Landscapes" -- Jason L. Grobe, University of Wyoming

  • "The Origin of the Cattle Industry in the Wyoming Area with Special Emphasis on the Establishment of the Wyoming Hereford Ranch" -- Kari E. Skewes, University of Wyoming

  • "The Landscape of the American Cowboy: Real or Romanticized and How It Has Changed Through History" -- Brian Stenbak, University of Wyoming

Charles J. Belden collection, American Heritage Center
Charles J. Belden collection, American Heritage Center

6:30 -7:00 p.m.

Registration & Reception in AHC Loggia

7:00-8:30 p.m.

Panel Discussion: The Transformation and Repackaging of Wyoming’s Landscapes, moderated by Peter K. Simpson, University of Wyoming

Where:  Stock Growers' Room, 2nd Floor

Moderator:  Peter K. Simpson

Panel:  Dollie Iberlin, artist and author, Buffalo WY; Simon Iberlin, rancher, Buffalo, WY; David Kathka, director, Board of Cooperative Education Services, Rock Springs, WY; Mark E. Miller, Wyoming State Archaeologist, Laramie, WY

Charles J. Belden collection, American Heritage Center
Charles J. Belden collection, American Heritage Center

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 2000

8:00-9:00 a.m.

Registration in American Heritage Center Lobby

9:00-10:00 a.m.

Attracting Tourists During the Depression

Where:  Stock Growers' Room, 2nd Floor

Moderator:  Tamsen Hert

  • "The Magnet That Draws: Art, Landscape, and Tourism in the Black Hills of South Dakota" -- Suzanne Julin, Washington State University, Pullman
  • "National Park Year 1934: How Two Women Packaged and Promoted the National Parks" -- Joan M. Zenzen, University of Maryland

10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.

Promoting Resorts as Landscapes

Where:  Stock Growers' Room, 2nd Floor

Moderator:  John Dorst

  • "Selling the Setting: Scenic Tourism at Early American Resorts" -- Thomas A. Chambers, Siena College, New York
  • "Let His Eye Box the Compass: Place and Representation in New Hampshire’s White Mountains" -- Pavel Cenkl, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts
  • "So Might the Indian of Yore Have Surveyed His Domain: Creating the Tourist Ecoscape in Palm Springs, California, 1880s-1930s -- Rachel D. Shaw, University of California, San Diego

Perceptions of 19th Century Landscape

Where:  Sheep Industry Room, 5th Floor

Moderator:  William H. Moore

  • "Imagining Oregon: Landscape Perceptions, Regional Development, 1846-1906" -- Ryan J. Carey, University of Texas
  • "The Pastoral City: Los Angeles, 1870-1890" -- James Kessenides, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
  • "Revisioning ‘This Well-Wooded Land,’ 1870-1910" -- Janice Simon, University of Georgia

11:30-12:00

        Book Signing -- Lobby

12:00-1:30 p.m.

Keynote Luncheon

  • "Lies Across America: What Our Historic Sites Get Wrong" -- James Loewen, author, Washington, D.C.

2:00-3:00 p.m.

Means of Experiencing Landscapes

Where:  Sheep Industry Room, 5th Floor

Moderator:  Eric Sandeen

  • "The Travel Trailer as Mediator Between the American Public and the American Landscape" -- Kate Morrison Catterall & Matthew Catterall, University of Texas at Austin
  • "Re-Packaging the Tastee Diner: Human Agency in a Changing Cultural Landscape" -- Bruce R. Johansen, University of Maryland

Packaging Landscapes of Popular Culture: Western Film and Performance

Where:  Stock Growers' Room, 2nd Floor

Moderator:  Phil Roberts

  • "Imaging the West: Harsh Realism vs. Fantastical Illusion in the Films of William S. Hart and Tom Mix" -- Steven Kite, Oklahoma State University
  • "Packaging the Indian Southwest: The School of American Research and the Santa Fe Fiesta in the 1920s" -- Carter Jones Meyer, Ramapo College of New Jersey

3:30-4:30 p.m.

Picturing Landscapes

Where:  Stock Growers' Room, 2nd Floor

Moderator:  Tamsen Hert

  • "Inventing the Past: The Representation of Florida in Picturesque America" -- Elizabeth B. Heuer, Florida State University, Tallahassee
  • "Everyone Can Understand a Picture! Photographers and the Promotion of Early Yellowstone" -- Lee Whittlesey, Yellowstone National Park
  • "Having a Lovely Time, Wish You Were Here: The Picture Postcard as a Received Image of Designed Landscapes" -- Ann Komara, University of Colorado, Denver
Moorcroft, Wyoming, 1887. American Heritage Center collection
Moorcroft, Wyoming, 1887.   American Heritage Center collection

  Registration Form (print and mail to the address below)

Registration Form (please print)

Name:

Address:

City, State, Zip:

Phone (day):

Number of persons for the Keynote Luncheon @ $15.00 per person:

Total amount remitted $

Payment method
  • Check payable to the University of Wyoming
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*The University of Wyoming is committed to making this symposium accessible to all individuals. If you have special needs and may require accommodation in order to fully participate, please check here.

Complete and mail to:

The American Heritage Center, PO Box 3924, Laramie, WY 82071-3924.

For your convenience a book of rooms has been reserved at the Holiday Inn, 2313 Soldier Springs Rd., Laramie, WY 82070.  Rate for double or single is $62.00.  To reserve a room call the hotel directly before August 28th and ask for the AHC code of reserved rooms, 307.742.6611.

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American Heritage Center, University of Wyoming, P.O. Box 3924, Laramie, WY 82071.  Phone:  307.766.4114,  Fax:  307.766.5511, Email: shelstad@uwyo.edu.  Copyright © University of Wyoming, 2000.  Created on July 12, 2000.  Last modified on May 02, 2002.