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Yellowstone National Park News Releases
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Taiwanese Woman Drowns in Firehole River
Posted: July 28th, 2010
A 22-year-old woman died last night at Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center from injuries sustained when she slipped under the surface of the water at Firehole River near Old Faithful. Lin Ching-Ling, a Taiwanese national, was submerged for approximately 5 minutes before bystanders were able to pull her out of the water.
Beach Fire EVENING Update 07/27/10
Posted: July 28th, 2010
Today’s Activities: Two 20-person hotshot crews completed mop up operations by the end of shift today and returned to the Fishing Bridge fire camp at the end of their shift. One heavy, two medium, and one light helicopter supported suppression activities and transported all firefighting equipment/supplies back to the Fishing Bridge fire camp.
Beach Fire Morning Update 07/27/10
Posted: July 27th, 2010
Yesterday’s Activities: Cooler temperature, higher humidity, and lower winds helped yesterday’s suppression efforts. Fireline construction around the main body of the fire was completed. Crews continued to mop up along the northern perimeter. Water pumps and fire hose lays were removed from southwestern perimeter of the fire. One heavy, two medium, and one light helicopter supported suppression activities and transported equipment/supplies back to the Fishing Bridge fire camp.
Jackson Hole News & Guide
Reflecting the unique character of Jackson Hole.
Police ushered 15 from blaze
Posted: July 29th, 2010
Jackson police Officer Brandon Cunningham didn't think much about the danger he might have been in as he awoke three children early Monday while a fire raged on the deck outside their bedroom.
Advanced bookings approach 2008 level
Posted: July 29th, 2010
Advanced reservations soared for Saturday, narrowing the gap between this summer and the banner season of 2008.
Gingery: No way to allow raw milk sales
Posted: July 29th, 2010
The case for raw milk in Teton County seems to be one of putting the cart before the horse, at least legally.
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Brad Watson's "Aliens" Serves Up Despair, with a Side of Humor
Posted: April 19th, 2010
Aliens in the Prime of Their Lives
by Brad Watson
W.W. Norton and Company, 268 pages, $23.95
In Brad Watson's new story collection, Aliens in the Prime of Their Lives, most of the families crumble, some almost as quickly as they form. Watson grew up in Mississippi, has taught creative writing at the University of Wyoming since 2005, and sets most of his stories in the American South. Although family disintegration is a common subject for short fiction, Watson's stories are full of surprises, often involving a note of the uncanny, such as a disturbing fortune teller who might be a gypsy, and a mysterious couple who could be escapees from a mental institution, or, as they claim in the absorbing title story, aliens from another planet.
In several stories, women have a craving to eat dirt--the practice called geophagy, once common in Mississippi among poor white and black women--that in Watson's stories gives the women an otherworldly quality, as though they have one foot among the living and one among the dead.
Brad Watson will discuss Aliens in the Prime of Their Lives at the Tattered Cover (Colfax) on Monday, April 19 at 7:30 p.m.
Wyoming Writers Roll On & Western Heritage Awards Announced
Posted: March 17th, 2010
And now the moment we've all been waiting for: two weeks ago I asked New West readers to vote on what book I should review next. I was delighted and relieved when several people voted. The winner, with four votes, is Staking Her Claim: Women Homesteading the West by Marcia Meredith Hensley. I'll review it next Monday. And since the voting was so tight, I plan to review the runner-up, How it Looks Going Back by Doris Knowles Pulis, in a few weeks as well.
As for the other two books: they'll go back on my guilt pile, and I'll get to them as soon as I can. Every time I open the cabinet where I keep my un-reviewed books, the books scream, "Pick me! Pick me!" I'm okay with it, but it frightens the kids.
• Wyofile has an in-depth feature by Susan Gray Gose on Wyoming mystery and thriller novelist C.J. Box. Gray Gose writes that Box "cranks out 1,000 words a day," "publishes two books a year," and that one of his novels could be adapted into a screenplay soon:
"The producers of About Schmidt (the 2002 New Line Cinema comedy) bought the rights to Blue Heaven. While many optioned books languish, this one seems to be moving forward. It's received financing, and actors Jack Nicholson, Alec Baldwin and Joe Pesci have signed on."
Temple Grandin's Life Story Hits the Small Screen
Posted: February 10th, 2010
The movie "Temple Grandin," about the life of Temple Grandin, the Colorado writer, animal expert, and advocate for people with autism, premiered on HBO this weekend. The movie stars Claire Danes, a casting choice that Grandin told Erin O'Toole of KUNC she was "absolutely delighted" with. Grandin spoke with O'Toole as she was in the midst of traveling around the country to promote the film.
Grandin said of Danes, "She put this wig on and dressed up in my clothes and became me." Grandin is pleased with the movie. "I love the way the movie shows how my mind works," she said. (I reviewed Grandin's most recent book, Animals Make Us Human, last year.)
• One of my favorite writers, Edward P. Jones, is the "eminent writer in residence" at the University of Wyoming in Laramie this semester. I saw on the Wyoming Arts Blog that Jones will read and sign his books Thursday, Feb. 18, at 5 p.m. in the University Wyoming Union ballroom. If you haven't checked out Jones' Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Known World or his two masterful story collections, do yourself a favor and get reading!
Also in the Roundup: Edward P. Jones and Alyson Hagy read in Laramie, the Patagonia Public Library throws its annual Writers' Round-up, Dave Cullen is in the running for the Barnes & Noble Discover Award, New Mexico honors its writers, and Denver teens pick their favorite book of the year.
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