Western Folklife Center
Ask a Cowboy Poet: "Seasonal Change"

This month, the cowboy poets describe their observations of the fall season as they answer this question posed by Feeling like Fall, “How does the land, and the animals you surround yourself with, change as the days get shorter and darker?”

Ask a Cowboy Poet: "Seasonal Change"
Western Folklife Center
Ask a Cowboy Poet: "Distilling Vast Vistas"

This month, the cowboy poets whittle down a wide question about their writing as they answer this quandary asked by @carteagraphy, "How do you distill the vastness of the vistas you encounter into the slim space of a poem?"

Ask a Cowboy Poet: "Distilling Vast Vistas"
Western Folklife Center
Making Makilak

This month, Elko local and Basque elder Bob Echeverria tells us about the practice of makila carving.

Making Makilak
Western Folklife Center
Ask a Cowboy Poet: "Transition Planning"

This month, the cowboy poets mull over a dilemma “as old as human fingernails” as they answer a question about transition planning for generational ranches.

Ask a Cowboy Poet: "Transition Planning"
Western Folklife Center
Ask a Cowboy Poet: "Favorite Place on Earth"

This month, the poets describe their “heaven on earth” as they answer this question asked by Anonymous, “What is your favorite place on Earth?”

Ask a Cowboy Poet: "Favorite Place on Earth"

cracker cow

Moooving Day in Elko

Every year we send a fair share of merchandise, workshop supplies and other items over to our outpost at the Elko Convention Center, but this may be the first time we've shipped livestock.

Mad Cow!
Mad Cow!

Well, OK, she isn't "live," but she is a full-size genuine Cracker Cow, and she came to us all the way from Florida.

A beautiful artifact in our featured exhibit, Florida Cattle Ranching: Five Centuries of Tradition -- produced by the Florida Folklife Program, Florida Department of State, and Florida Cultural Resources -- there just wasn't a good place for her in the Wiegand Gallery, so we put her in the cozy Fireplace Nook... right next to the leather furniture.

Although we'll miss her staring at us from across the room and startling all who enter the bar, we think she'll enjoy her new job greeting guests at the Convention Center.

We just hope that all this moooving around won't make this cow a "mad" one...

Mad Cow
Mad Cow

Har Har,

Devon the Intern

 
 

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