Saturday U, Summer Session 2012 was held October 6 at the National Museum of Wildlife Art in Jackson.
Eric Sandeen, professor and chair of the American Studies Program at University of Wyoming, presented Wyoming's Heart Mountain Relocation Center: A Living Legacy.
During World War II more than 14,000 Japanese and Japanese-Americans were detained in barracks at the Heart Mountain Center between Cody and Powell in Park County. After the war, eager homesteaders carted off these temporary structures and incorporated them into local farms and ranches. Many remain to this day -- some easily identifiable, others thoroughly disguised as homes, sheds, and out buildings. These barracks reveal the stories of two waves of population in northeastern Wyoming, one unwilling and the other willing. What do these buildings reveal? How did their inhabitants change the character of the Big Horn Basin?
Saturday U is free and open to the public. For more details, or to register for college credit or Professional Teaching Standards Board (PTSB) credit, call Susan Thulin, CWC outreach coordinator, (307) 733-7425.
In its third year, Saturday U is a collaborative program that connects popular UW professors with life-long learners in Jackson Hole. Offered three times a year, Saturday U is sponsored by the university, the UW Foundation and Wyoming Humanities Council and presented by Central Wyoming College (CWC), the National Museum of Wildlife Art and Teton County Library Foundation.
For more information about Saturday U, visit the website at [ Ссылка ] or contact Teton County Library Adult Humanities Coordinator Oona Doherty at 733-2164 ext. 135 or email odoherty@tclib.org .
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