Let’s expand on ‘America’s best idea’ Sep 30, 2009
National parks have been deemed America s best idea, in writer Wallace Stegner s phrasing, and they are celebrated as that in a Ken Burns documentary series airing this week on PBS. Yet, oddly, America s national park system is largely perceived as a fait accompli, like the great Gothic cathedrals in Europe. But national parks should be as much a part of our future as they are of our past. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Opinion)
Pride and preservation in ‘National Parks’ Sep 25, 2009
Finally, with all due respect to the filmmakers (as well as the British diplomat James Bryce, who originated the phrase, and the novelist Wallace Stegner, who popularized it), the parks are not necessarily America s best idea. Surely that title belongs to something called the Bill of Rights. (Boston Globe)
Dinosaur boneyard: Visitors go back in time Sep 20, 2009
"The cliffs and sculptured forms are sometimes smooth, sometimes fantastically craggy, always massive, and they have a peculiar capacity to excite the imagination," wrote author Wallace Stegner in a book of essays, Dinosaur , that he edited in 1955 when there was talk of converting the park's Yampa and Green canyons into a reservoir for a hydroelectric dam. "The effect on the human spirit is neither numbing nor awesome, but infinitely peaceful.". (The Augusta Chronicle)
See the dinosaur bones in Vernal, Utah Aug 26, 2009
"The cliffs and sculptured forms are sometimes smooth, sometimes fantastically craggy, always massive, and they have a peculiar capacity to excite the imagination," wrote author Wallace Stegner in a book of essays, "Dinosaur," that Stegner edited in 1955 when there was talk of converting the park's Yampa and Green canyons into a reservoir for a hydroelectric dam. "The effect on the human spiritis neither numbing nor awesome, but infinitely peaceful," wrote Stegner. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Travel)
The business of bones Aug 26, 2009
"The cliffs and sculptured forms are sometimes smooth, sometimes fantastically craggy, always massive, and they have a peculiar capacity to excite the imagination," wrote author Wallace Stegner in a book of essays, "Dinosaur," that Stegner edited in 1955 when there was talk of converting the park's Yampa and Green canyons into a reservoir for a hydroelectric dam. "The effect on the human spirit is neither numbing nor awesome, but infinitely peaceful," wrote Stegner. (MSNBC -- Travel)
'It Feels So Good When I Stop,' by Joe Pernice Aug 17, 2009
Jacob Molyneux, a former Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford, is a Brooklyn writer. E-mail him at. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
How do independent bookstores survive? Aug 10, 2009
Also authors like Wallace Stegner and others involved in Western literature all over the northwest. And he has a great section on the American Indian, which is sort of my passion now as well as the buffalo. (Helena Independent Record)
Gardens brighten historic home Jul 9, 2009
Several kinds of wine and refreshments will be served, including a cake in honor of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Lake Mills native Wallace Stegner, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author and noted conservationist. The Victorian House also will be open from 1 to 3 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. (Mason City Globe-Gazette, IO)
An interesting biography of A.B. Guthrie Jun 21, 2009
Benson is the highly acclaimed biographer of John Steinbeck, Wallace Stegner and Ernest Hemingway, among others. He is an emeritus professor of English at San Diego State University. (Bismarck Tribune, ND)
Kennedy: Promote freedom 'to a doubting world' Jun 16, 2009
Hennessey invoked the memory of writer, environmentalist and Stanford professor Wallace Stegner, who established Stanford's 60-year-old Creative Writing Program ... The one thing that is not permitted is despair," Stegner said. Hennessey said: "That is the legacy you inherit as you prepare to leave the university: It is a legacy shaped by people like Wallace Stegner, whose life as a writer, teacher and environmentalist exemplified the Stanford spirit. (Palo Alto Online, CA)
Democracy in Vermont Jun 1, 2009
Wallace Stegner, 1971. Since the 1930s, Vermont has attracted rusticating intellectuals who bought abandoned farms and stayed from last frost to first, as Bryan jokes. (The American Conservative)
Getting the small things right May 17, 2009
With his death came the death of a special era in American letters, for Mr. Lathem was the center of a remarkable universe that included such disparate figures as Robert Frost, Dr. Seuss, Wallace Stegner, Erskine Caldwell, Paul Sample, and members of the Calvin Coolidge family. He produced about a hundred books. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
From the Editor: We think we've found ONTV answer May 10, 2009
Reader John Parks suggested "Dame Shirley and the Gold Rush," by James J. Rawls, and "Angle of Repose" by Wallace Stegner ("Good story about love and mining engineers."). Several readers heartily endorsed "Echoes of Yesterday," an Elk Grove history book by local writer Lance Armstrong, published in 2007. (Sacramento Bee -- Opinion)
Author Ron Hansen to speak at Commencement Apr 28, 2009
He later held a Wallace Stegner Creative Writing Fellowship at Stanford University. He is currently the Gerard Manley Hopkins professor in the Arts and Humanities department at Santa Clara, where he earned an M.A. in Spirituality. (The Loyola Greyhound, MD)
hand assembles one of her chapbooks Apr 11, 2009
She snagged a Wallace Stegner fellowship in poetry through Stanford University, and came to California in 1999 to do that. Her educational journey has been varied. (Half Moon Bay Review, CA)
UNL Symposium "Celebrating Darwin's Legacy Mar 21, 2009
On March 27, David Quammen, Wallace Stegner professor in western American studies at Montana State University, will present a second keynote lecture: "Charles Darwin: The Secret Life of a Cautious Revolutionary.". His talk starts at 7:30 p.m. in the Nebraska Union and is free and open to the public. (Nebraska Statepaper)
Wilderness push welcome, for 'incomparable sanity’ Mar 13, 2009
I think Wallace Stegner had it right when he had this to say about the importance of wilderness. We need wilderness preserved - as much of it as is still left, and as. (Missoulian, MT)
Times change - California growth issues don't Mar 10, 2009
Advisory board members included author Wallace Stegner, planning theorist Catherine Bauer Wurster and William Matson Roth, then a University of California regent. Before the release of "California, Going, Going ...," Heller recalled last week, Wurster made sure a copy went to her friend Scott Newhall, the editor of The Chronicle, who played the report on Page One twice within a week. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Midgette one of county’s latest Eagle Scouts Feb 26, 2009
Well known Eagle Scouts include former U.S. President Gerald Ford, astronauts James Lovell and Ellison Onizuka, director/producer Steven Spielberg, journalist Walter Cronkite and Pulitzer Prize- winning authors Wallace Stegner and Harrison Salisbury. Copyright The Washington Daily News unless otherwise noted. (Washington Daily News, NC)
Women on the wall Feb 12, 2009
As Price put together the display a quote by Wallace Stegner spoke to her enough to become central. Mormon men were strong, the Western writer wrote in 1964, but their women were incredible. (Logan Herald Journal, UT)
