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"A natural storyteller with a great heart that shines right through."
John Azzaro, President, Great Speakers Management
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WALLACE STEGNER'S UTAH |
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beginning Fall 2008, statewide in Utah |
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In 2009, the University of Utah will celebrate the centennial of Wallace Stegner's birth. Steve will be a Stegner Fellow at the University of Utah's Tanner Center for the Humanities during the 2008-2009 academic year. He'll be taking Stegner's writing on the road across Utah, bringing those words home to the places where they started.
Wallace Stegner wrote about virtually all of Utah’s landscapes and stories in one or another of his books.
In school and community programs, Steve will ask people who live in the locations that Stegner so insightfully memorialized in print to not only read and discuss Stegner's best work but to respond in their own words.
Steve will respond, as well, in words and photographs posted on his blog. This rich mix of writing and photography will celebrate not just Wallace Stegner but our interaction with his writing as a living legacy. |
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BARGAINING FOR EDEN reading, discussion & booksigning |
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Saturday, September 6th, 2008, at 7:30 p.m. |
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Entrada Institute at Robbers Roost Bookstore
135 East Main Street
Torrey, UT 84775
for further information: 435-425-2118 |
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Steve brings Bargaining For Eden to his home landscape, the setting for a major section in the book. Steve will show slides, tell stories, and take questions from an audience that will surely include voices in the book, citizens who care deeply about the redrock canyons surrounding Torrey, gateway to Capitol Reef National Park. |
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BARGAINING FOR EDEN reading, discussion & booksigning |
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Wednesday, September 10th, 2008, at 7:00 p.m. |
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Ogden Valley Branch Library
131 South 7400 East
Huntsville, Utah 84317
For further information: 801-745-2220 |
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Steve brings Bargaining For Eden to Ogden Valley, setting for some of the most poignant scenes in the book. Steve will show slides and read from the book--and take questions from an audience that will surely include voices in the book, citizens who care deeply about the mountain rising above their Ogden Valley home. Co-sponsored by the Huntsville Library and the Ogden Valley Land Trust. Steve will donate a portion of the proceeds from book sales to the Land Trust. |
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BARGAINING FOR EDEN reading, discussion & booksigning |
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Friday, September 12th, 2008
6:00 p.m. |
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Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge
Brigham City, Utah
Utah Society for Environmental Education conference
for further information, contact Andree Walker at andree@usee.org or (801) 328-1549 |
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Join the USEE Conference "Share Fair" and social hour (free and open to the public). Steve will present stories and photos from his new book, Bargaining for Eden, to the Utah environmental education community--surely triggering an interesting discussion. |
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BARGAINING FOR EDEN reading, discussion & booksigning |
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Wednesday, Sept. 17th 2008, at Noon |
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Lindquist Lecture Room
Kimball Arts Building
Weber State University
3850 University Circle
Ogden, Utah 84408
for further information contact Hal Crimmel:
(801) 626-8044
hcrimmel@weber.edu
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Steve brings Bargaining For Eden to Ogden, a major setting for these stories. As part of the Environmental Issues Lecture Series, Steve will show slides and read from the book--and take questions from an audience that will surely include some of the voices in the book, citizens who care deeply about Mount Ogden and Snowbasin. |
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BARGAINING FOR EDEN slideshow, reading & booksigning |
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Saturday afternoon, October 4th, 2008
2:00 p.m. |
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The Tattered Cover (LoDo)
1628 16th Street at Wynkoop
Denver, CO 80202
for further information, contact Jeff Lee:
(303) 436-1070
jeff.lee@tatteredcover.com
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Bargaining for Eden begins with Steve's childhood in Denver, so it's entirely appropriate to bring this exploration of the values behind these characters home to Denver. Join Steve for an exploration of the tensions between development and conservation in The Middle-Aged West. |
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UTAH HUMANITIES BOOK FESTIVAL |
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Saturday, October 25th, 2008 |
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Salt Lake City Main Library
210 East 400 South
Salt Lake City, UT
For further information, contact Hikmet Loe at (801) 359-9670 or loe@utahhumanities.org |
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Steve will speak twice at this fall's Salt Lake Book Festival. He will moderate a panel of conservation advocates featured in his new book, Bargaining for Eden, discussing the story of the Snowbasin land exchange and the future of open space in Utah. And he will appear on a panel celebrating the centennial of Wallace Stegner's birth. |
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Archived Interviews & Podcasts Appear Below |
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GUEST BLOGGER FOR POWELLS BOOKS |
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July 21-25, 2008 |
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Steve had the honor to be guest blogger for Portland's great independent bookstore, Powell's. He wrote from Torrey, Utah--setting for many of the stories in his new book, Bargaining for Eden. His daily entries were filled with the adventure of publishing a book about a public figure, the wonder of sacred datura blossoms and thunderstorms over Capitol Reef National Park, and the inside story of the book. |
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BARGAINING FOR EDEN: THE FIGHT FOR THE LAST OPEN SPACES IN AMERICA : podcast |
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July 10th, 2008
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The City Library
Salt Lake City UT |
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Steve launched Bargaining for Eden at the main library in his hometown to an audience of 300. Salt Lake's community NPR station KCPW broadcast the evening live--and has archived the podcast. The climax comes at the end of the Q & A, when Earl Holding's representative rises to speak.
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WILD IN THE CITY: Wasatch Journal cougar story |
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May 2008 |
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Steve spent time among the mountain lions living in the mountains surrounding the Salt Lake Valley, on assignment for Wasatch Journal. The story, published in the Early Summer issue, has been featured In a panel discussion, where Steve appeared with cougar biologists and conservationists, and a radio interview. People are clearly fascinated by these stories of the fragile balance between people and predators where wildlands and urban areas meet.
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WASATCH FRONT FORUM: West Desert, Wasteland or Wilderness? |
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October 9th, 2007
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Westminster College
Salt Lake City, Utah
available as a podcast from Salt Lake's public radio station, KCPW
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West of Salt Lake City, we come to a place that few of us know intimately. What is our relationship to this space and what are its appropriate uses? Steve joined panelists; Cecil Garland, a rancher from Callao, Utah; Vanessa Pierce, Executive Director of Heal Utah; and Krissy Wilson, a biologist for the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources to discuss the future of Utah's West Desert.
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STUDENT CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION Conservation Commencement 2007: "The Anthropology of an Activist" |
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August 8th, 2007
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Charlestown, New Hampshire |
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Steve, an SCA alum, worked as a backcountry volunteer at Olympic National Park in 1972. Thirty-five years later, he was honored to deliver a conservation charge to the 3,000 SCA volunteers completing their service in the 50th anniversary year of the Student Conservation Association.
You can watch his talk online through this link. |
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LASTING LIGHT: 125 YEARS OF GRAND CANYON PHOTOGRAPHY Photo Exhibit |
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This elegant photo exhibit opened at the historic Kolb Studio at Grand Canyon in Summer 2006. The show begins touring nationally through the Smithsonian SITES program in 2008. |
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A new exhibit of work by 30 contemporary Grand Canyon photographers--including Steve--featuring the stories behind the photos, transporting the viewer into the lives of the photographers.
Steve wrote the text for Lasting Light, a book accompanying the exhibit that includes interviews with all participating photographers and a narrative history of Grand Canyon photography. Northland Publishing released this spectacular large-format book in June 2006. |
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