• Poetry & Literature

    Wallace Stegner's Utah

    Wallace Stegner's Utah

    Utah Humanities Council

    August 18, 2008

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    Wallace Stegner published five novels with western settings (three of them in Utah), two books about Utah history, and numerous articles about life in the Beehive state. Although born in Iowa, Stegner lived in Utah from 1921 to 1930 and from 1934 to 1937, and considered Salt Lake City to be his home town; he felt that his later homes in Iowa, Massachusetts, and California never equaled those of his youth along the Wasatch. This presentation by Robert C. Steensma deals with Stegner's views on the rich diversity of Utah's history, its peoples and its environment, as well as the problems its people will face as the state population grows. Many of the problems he foresaw as long as fifty years ago have been realized: water shortages, suburban sprawl, assimilation of ethnic and religious groups, and preservation of wilderness.

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      Tickets: Free Admission

    • Dates & Times

      Dates:
      August 18, 2008

      Times:
      Monday 11:00am

    • Venue Info

      Cottonwood High School

      5715 South 1300 East Salt Lake City, UT 84121

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      Greater Salt Lake

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