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Friends of Cedar Mesa Director Josh Ewing points to petroglyphs at Sand Island Campground. The area was taken out of Bears Ears National Monument when the boundaries were redrawn in 2017.
Just five miles west of Bluff in southern San Juan County, there’s a campground called Sand Island. It’s nestled between a steep cliff and the bank of the San Juan River, and it’s home to some of the oldest rock art in America.
Renee Bright
President Barack Obama designated roughly 1.35 million acres in San Juan County as Bears Ears National Monument in December 2016.
Josh Ewing is the director of a Bluff-based conservation group called Friends of Cedar Mesa, and he’s an expert on the petroglyphs.
G. Allen Johnson May 10, 2021Updated: May 11, 2021, 3:18 pm
A scene from the upcoming film “In the Heights,” based on Lin-Manuel Miranda’s hit Broadway musical. It will screen at Oracle Park on June 11-12. Photo: Macall Polay, Warner Bros.
With the San Francisco Pride Parade canceled for the second year in a row due to the pandemic, the biggest official outdoor event during Pride month will now be a movies series at Oracle Park.
Frameline, San Francisco Pride, the city of San Francisco and the San Francisco Giants have partnered to host the first Pride Movies Night at Oracle Park, beginning with a screening of Jon M. Chu’s adaptation of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Broadway musical “In the Heights” on June 11.
7:30 pm - 10:00 pm
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With a soundtrack arranged and performed by State High Thespians, “Women of Spoon River “(2020), focuses on and reflects upon the lives of 28 women from the collection, “Spoon River Anthology.” In sharing the lives of these women, we hope you will find as we did, that while much has changed since the 1800s, there is still much that remains the same. “”Spoon River Anthology” (1915), by Edgar Lee. Masters, is a collection of short free verse poems that collectively narrates the epitaphs of the residents of Spoon River, a fictional small town named after the Spoon River which ran near Masters’ home town of Lewistown, Illinois. The entire collection includes 212 separate characters, in all providing 244 accounts of their lives, losses, and manner of death.”
City Theatre Austin celebrates the spirit of community with the premiere online production event adapted from the masterwork American poetry of Edgar Lee Masters. Thirty actors Thirty poems Thirty performances. Speaking from the past in a small Illinois town, local Austin actors perform the most revered of Masters collection, poignantly capturing the politics, passion, love, betrayals, secrets, failures, and hopes of its citizens, and expressing true stories about death and life to reveal a moving portrait of what - and who create a place called home. Staged and filmed at Mueller Park. Playing thru February 28th. Info 512-470-1100 or info@citytheatreaustin.org.