Packaging Places: Imagining, Remembering, and Promoting Landscapes

Charles J. Belden collection, American Heritage Center

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

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

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