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Words of Wyoming - Episode 4

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Episode 4 - listen to the podcast here . You can also subscribe on itunes or google podcasts so you don't miss an episode! Check out A Way With Words website and podcast - Grant and Martha are funded independently of NPR and you can support them by donating today. Check out their website for details. Had you heard the word synecdoche before? Pronounced it? Fun times! To read more about the phrase "Powder River Let R Buck", check out this article , and this one . I saw this lovely scarf highlighting the phrase, exhibited at the Nelson Museum of the West, in Cheyenne. Visit Meeteetse! Check out the Meeteetse Museums Buy all the chocolate at the Meeteetse Chocolatier Check out other area attractions on the Meeteetse website .  Read up about the origin of Pika as a word , and about the Pica' s health as a portent of climate change . On your way to Wyoming, visit Red Lodge Montana! Thanks for listening and checking out the website, happy trails!

WW2 POW Camps in Wyoming - Episode 3 BONUS

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Listen to the BONUS Episode here !   This is a bonus to Episode 3: WW2 in Wyoming featuring an interview of Cheryl O'Brien who wrote WW2 POW Camps of Wyoming. Her book has stories from prisoners as well as the local community of farm families where prisoners labored to bring in the harvest during the war years.  Her book can be purchased here . 

World War II in Wyoming - Episode 3

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Episode 3 - listen to the podcast here , subscribe! NPR story on the Japanese "bombing" of Thermopolis WY Uncle Dale and his mischievous smile WWII in Wyoming Road Trip WWII related tour of Wyoming Cheyenne - visit the Military Memorial Museum Douglas - visit the WWII POW Camp Casper - visit the Wyoming Veterans Memorial Museum and see the m urals at the Casper Army Airbase Buffalo - visit the Jim Gatchell Museum to learn about the WWII Bomber crash Greybull - visit the Museum of Flight and Aerial Firefighting and the Donald Ruhl Memorial at the Greybull Cemetery Powell - visit the Heart Mountain Internment Camp Dubois - visit the National Museum of Military Vehicles Douglas - POW Camp mural detail over the door Casper - begin at the beginning - mural starts with a nod to the Arapaho origin story  Casper - mural ends with the establishment of the Casper Army Air Base, where the mural is Follow Mark Pedri on Instagram and Facebook , to get updates on his documentary f...

Bonus Episode: A Critter in the Henhouse - Episode 2 BONUS

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Bonus Episode - Listen to it  here This is a bonus episode to Episode 2: Gay In Wyoming. Please give that episode a listen too - here .  A Critter in the Henhouse is a short story by Jackson Lassiter, author of the book of short stories and essays Birds of a Feather , which can be purchased here .  Be warned, there's some cussin' so act accordingly! (use headphones 😉)

Gay in Wyoming - Episode 2

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Episode 2 - listen to the podcast here , subscribe! Introduction About Dr. Holder's 1889 article titled “The Bote” in the New York Medical Journal. James Marsden article about The Laramie Project and link to the movie. Guest Interview My guest this episode was my cousin Jackson Lassiter, who grew up gay in Wyoming in the 60's and 70's. I think he's the reason why I have a soft spot in my heart for red heads and freckles.  Little Jackson Lassiter rocking that full blown Western look! Aunt Shirley with her boys - she stayed so calm within this storm! Senior picture, taken just before Jackson headed out into the big world outside of Wyoming Jackson read Wyoming Cemetery, Winter; a poem that was published in journal below. Don't forget to listen to the bonus episode, linked at the end, where Jackson reads "A Critter in the Henhouse" from his book of short stories, Birds of a Feather , which can be purchased here .  Wyoming Wildlife : all about magpies , and...

Welcome to Wyoming: My 307 Podcast - Episode 1

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Episode 1  - listen to the podcast here , subscribe! (My Dad as a mischievous little boy, Greybull Wyoming) Greybull - town website Museum of Flight and Aerial Firefighting - website Photos and Technical details on the planes in the Flight Museum (My favorite plane at the Museum of Flight) Bighorn Basin GeoScience Center - website Red Gulch Dinosaur Tracksite - website Historic Greybull Hotel and Speakeasy Restaurant- website Renaissance Cafe - doesn’t have a website, but is on Facebook where she posts her menus for the week, and has reviews on Trip Advisor. Located at 537 Greybull Ave, 307-272-2431   (Renaissance Cafe, Storefront on Greybull Avenue, Greybull WY) Manuel Bromberg - artist and national treasure (detail of Bromberg's mural in the Greybull Post Office) Greybull Library and Museum Wyoming Wildlife Magazine - subscription link Billings Montana - city website (Aerial view flying into Billing...