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… Artist Klea McKenna is a visual artist who also makes films and writes. Her work has been shown and published …
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… graphics, podcasts, video journalism, documentary films, or graphic documentaries. Applications should be sent …
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Pausing on a trail near Yosemite Park to appreciate some wildflowers. (photo credit: Elijah Thornburg…
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In front of the Brightwater Treatment Plant after presenting my project proposal for the SRA (photo…
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… we will screen and analyze Orson Welles' iconic border films Touch of Evil and Rodrigo Dorfman's Los Sueños de …
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… and has served as a location for numerous Hollywood films, from Comancheros (1961) to the Greatest Story Ever …
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  Apr. 26, 2022, marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of Frederick Law Olmsted, the master designer of public parks and a founder of the field of landscape architecture. Join historian and filmmaker Laurence Cotton (originator of and…
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There's no question about the centrality of myth and myth-making in the American West's identity. Blaine Harden and Emily Greenfield will use Harden's book "Murder at the Mission" as a starting point to discuss the use of myth in Western history.…
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A Small-Town Feeling Between the Bay and the Central Valley Main Street in downtown Pleasanton, California.   Michael C. Berch via Wikimedia Commons By Devon Burger Front cover of brochure distributed by city of Pleasanton.…
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Affiliate, Professor of English, Rice University
Krista Comer is an Affiliated Scholar with the Bill Lane Center for the American West during her sabbatical from Rice University in Houston, Texas.  She is originally from Pueblo, Colorado, but grew up mainly in California between the Bay Area…