“Snapshots in Time” will be an annual event focusing on key historic moments in Jackson Hole’s history. We would like to thank Marian and Glenn Taylor of the Taylor Ranch on Slide Lake for bringing photographs and posters to be added to our digital collections. These posters and photos are shown at the Kelly School every May 18^th at a potluck commemorating the anniversary of the Kelly Flood. Several are shown here and more can be seen at the Stan Klassen Research Center located at 225 N. Cache. 

Before and After bridge

Horsetail Creek before and after

 

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Storytellers include longtime residents Jim Sullivan and Gene Linn. Musicians performing during the popular evening include: Byron Tomingas and Marco Soliz, Gene Linn, and the O’Connor family.

 
Jim Sullivan has worked at Snow King for 39 years, and began teaching skiing under Bill Briggs in 1973. He will speak about the International Ski Teams that came to Jackson between 1995 and 2004. Gene Linn and his family own and manage the Linn Canyon Ranch in the Victor area. He’s made it his business to tell stories and share music around the campfire for decades. Byron Tomingas and Marco Soliz, both professional guitarists who play at various venues in Jackson Hole, will team up during the program, regaling the audience with their beautiful music. The O’Connor family includes Jesse, Karen, and their two children. Three members of the family sing in the Jackson Hole Chorale.

 
The program is free for current Jackson Hole Historical Society and Museum members. Non-member admittance is $5.00. Individual, family, or partnership memberships are available at the door. Please call the historical society at 733-2414 for more information or visit www.jacksonholehistory.org. You can also find the Jackson Hole Historical Society and Museum on Facebook.

Concurrently, a holiday exhibit opens to celebrate the season. Beverages and favorite cookies from Jackson Hole cooks will be served during Sunday’s afternoon opening celebration.

A children’s workshop delights children of all ages and their families in the museum classroom from 1-5 p.m. Parents are invited to help their youngsters decorate cowgirl and cowboy cookies.
At 2:00 p.m. Andrea Graham, Folklife Specialist, delivers a program entitled “Foodways in the Intermountain West.” During the program, held in the exhibit gallery, attendees will learn about the importance of food traditions in our culture. Graham studied food culture in the American Studies Program at the University of Wyoming, where she conducts fieldwork statewide and produces public programs. She has worked for state and regional arts and cultural organizations in South Dakota, Virginia, Tennessee, Florida and Nevada, including ten years as the Folk Arts Coordinator for the Nevada Arts Council. Andrea has also worked as an independent folklorist in California, Idaho, Iowa, Montana, Nevada, Utah and Wyoming. She holds an M.A. in Folklore and Folklife from the University of Pennsylvania, and has worked in public folklore since 1980.

The Jackson Hole Historical Society and Museum and the Art Association of Jackson Hole, in cooperation with the Wyoming Humanities Council will host the local showing of Key Ingredients: America by Food, a Smithsonian Institution traveling exhibition. The exhibit delves into the historical, regional and social traditions that merge in everyday meals and celebrations of the American table. The exhibition will be on view beginning December 13 and continuing through January 20 and will give Jackson Hole residents an opportunity to celebrate the region’s food heritage.

An interactive website, www.keyingredients.org, has been developed in conjunction with the exhibition. The site invites people across the country to share their family recipes and food stories, learn about other food traditions and identify favorite small town eateries.

Key Ingredients is part of Museum on Main Street, a unique collaboration between the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES), state humanities councils across the nation, and local host institutions. To learn more about Key Ingredients and other Museum on Main Street exhibitions, visit www.museumonmainstreet.org.

Please contact Shannon Sullivan, curator of collections at 307-733-2414, or visit www.jacksonholehistory.org for more information and for a full itinerary of programs and events associated with Key Ingredients.

Earle is a prolific researcher and author. The Settlement Chronicles is his fourth book. Earle has also written numerous journal and periodical articles on a variety of topics, particularly wildlife management, natural history, and history. Earle’s award winning book, I Always Did Like Horses and Women: Enoch Cal Carrington’s Life Story, is a biography that flushes out the story of a local cowboy character. Green Fire: Stories from the Wild has received national attention as a conservation and natural history primer for the Northern Rockies and Greater Yellowstone region.

Harold Turner, lifetime local resident, outfitter, and Triangle-X dude ranch partner, has high praise for Earle’s book, stating “The author leads us through the man versus nature hardships in the settlement of this remote country, but conversely, he also shows us how the early settlers depended on and benefited from nature, and how that evolved into some local citizens recognizing a need for game laws and conservation.” Turner went on to say that the Settlement Chronicles included episodes of history that he had not heard before.

Earle first traveled to Jackson Hole in 1947 with his parents and has long had a special affinity for the area. He moved to Jackson in 1976, living here until 1983. Earle’s work with the Forest Service took him to Alaska and Oregon, and then, following his retirement from the Forest Service, he returned to the Jackson Hole area in 1990. Earle currently resides in Alta, Wyoming with his wife, Pattie.

The final program of the series is given by Gap Pucci, rescheduled for Tuesday, December 11. He shares stories from his book, We Married Adventure. All programs are held in the museum classroom at 225 N. Cache at 7:00 p.m.

Refreshments are served at each program. A donation of $5 for nonmembers is suggested which includes admission to the Jackson Hole Historical Society and Museum exhibition area before the program.
For more information please contact Karen Reinhart, curator of education and outreach, karen@jacksonholehistory.org, 733-2414. www.jacksonholehistory.org

The Jackson Hole Historical Society and Museum presents the third installment of its annual fall program series, Local Authors Speak, with support by the Teton County Library. On Tuesday, October 30, author and fur trade expert, Jim Hardee gives a special presentation commemorating the 200^th anniversary of the return trip of  the Astorians titled “Robert Stuart: 200 Years Ago in Jackson Hole Region.” The program is held at 7:00 p.m. in the museum classroom, 225 N. Cache. Hardee signs his book, Pierre’s Hole! The Fur Trade History of Teton Valley, Idaho, after the program.

Setting out in June 1812 on the return trip after establishing John Jacob Astor’s fur trading post at Astoria on the Oregon Coast, Robert Stuart and six companions traveled from west to east for more than 3,000 grueling miles by canoe, horseback, and ultimately on foot. By late September 1812, they had traversed Pierre’s Hole (today’s Teton Valley), entering Jackson Hole in early October.  Following the mountains south through Hoback Canyon, then through the Green River Valley, they came upon the one gap in the 3,000-mile-long Rocky Mountain chain that was passable by wagons—South Pass.

Stuart and his traveling party were the first white men known to traverse what would become the gateway to the Far West and the Oregon Trail. In the decades to come, an estimated 300,000 emigrants followed this corridor blazed by Stuart on their way to the fertile farmlands of the Willamette Valley and the goldfields of California. Stuart’s ten-month journey demanded remarkable courage, perseverance, and resourcefulness in overcoming unimaginable hardships. Stuart had come to the Pacific Northwest to make his fortune in the fur trade, but during his stay in the wilderness he emerged as a pioneering western naturalist of the first rank, a perceptive student of Native American cultures, and one of America’s most important, if least-known, explorers. Today Stuart’s expedition has largely been forgotten, but it ranks as one of the great adventure odysseys of the nineteenth century.

Jim Hardee is an historian who specializes in the fur trade of the far west.  He is the editor of the Rocky Mountain Fur Trade Journal, an annual peer-reviewed collection of articles published by the Museum of the Mountain Man, Sublette County Historical Society, in Pinedale, Wyoming. Jim has been the director of the Fur Trade Research Center since 1998. He is a nationally known speaker on fur trade topics and has many published research papers and articles on the subject.

Refreshments are served. A donation of $5 for nonmembers is suggested which includes admission to the Jackson Hole Historical Society and Museum exhibition area before the program.

The fourth program of the series is Tuesday, November 13. Earle Layser will share stories from his most recent book, The Jackson Hole Settlement Chronicles: The Lives and Times of the First Settlers. The final program is given by Gap Pucci, rescheduled for Tuesday, December 11. He shares stories from his book, We Married Adventure. All programs are held in the museum classroom at 225 N. Cache at 7:00 p.m.

For more information please contact Karen Reinhart, curator of education and outreach, karen@jacksonholehistory.org, 733-2414. www.jacksonholehistory.org

An update will be  posted when the program has been rescheduled.

Pucci moved from Philadelphia to Jackson Hole in 1965.  Married Adventure chronicles his time spent living in the isolated caretaker cabin at Granite Hot Springs and other early-day adventures he shared with his family. He is a longtime outfitter and hunting guide. Pucci commented that he wanted to write a book “to explain the early lifestyle in Jackson Hole and what it was like to try and live under those conditions. This book is my contribution and it was a lot of fun.” He still lives in a log cabin but now has running water, indoor plumbing, and electricity. The book shares humorous and poignant stories about living a lifestyle that for most of us is long gone but we can’t help but admire.

Refreshments are served. A donation of $5 for nonmembers is suggested which includes admission to the Jackson Hole Historical Society and Museum exhibition area before the program.

The next Local Author Series is slated for Tuesday, October 30. Author and avid fur trade historian, Jim Hardee, returns to the history museum with a special program that commemorates the 200^th anniversary of the return trip of Robert Stuart and the Astorians. He will sign his book Pierre’s Hole! The Fur Trade History of Teton Valley, Idaho after the program.  The final program of the series is Tuesday, November 13. Earle Layser will share stories from his most recent book, The Jackson Hole Settlement Chronicles: The Lives and Times of the First Settlers.

All programs are held in the museum classroom at 225 N. Cache at 7:00 p.m.

For more information please contact Karen Reinhart, curator of education and outreach, at 733-2414 or karen@jacksonholehisotry.org. Please see www.jacksonholehistory.org for a schedule of all events and programs.

Sophie Echeverria was raised on an historic dude ranch near Wickenburg, Arizona. She went to college at the University of Arizona where her writing talent was recognized by a professor. But Sophie’s literary career was postponed by marriage and raising her eight children. Encouraged by her children to write down her stories, Sophie began writing a trilogy of memoirs about five years ago. Look Both Ways Before Breaking the Law is the second book of the trilogy. Local writer Tim Sandlin commented on the back of the book that “The second volume of this family saga is just as funny, sad, tragic, and life-affirming as the first.” Sophie has lived in Jackson Hole since 1980.

Refreshments are served. A donation of $5 for nonmembers is suggested which includes admission to the Jackson Hole Historical Society and Museum exhibition area before the program.

The Local Author Series continues on October 15 when Gap Pucci, longtime outfitter in the area, shares stories from his new book, Married Adventure. Author and avid fur trade historian, Jim Hardee, returns to the history museum on Tuesday, October 30, with a special program that commemorates the 200^th anniversary of Robert Stuart’s and the Astorians’ return trip from the west coast. He will also sign his book, Pierre’s Hole! The Fur Trade History of Teton Valley, Idaho. The final program of the series is Tuesday, November 13. Earle Layser will share stories from his most recent book, The Jackson Hole Settlement Chronicles: The Lives and Times of the First Settlers. All programs are held at 225 N. Cache at 7:00 p.m.

For more information please visit www.jacksonholehistory.org or contact Karen Reinhart, curator of education and outreach, karen@jacksonholehistory.org, 733-2414, x. 203.