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Our Story, Inc. this month released “300+ Even More Facts About the African American Experience in Northern Nevada,” the third volume in its series of books about minority history in the Silver State.
Volume I of the series was published in 2016 and Volume II followed in 2018. Together, the three volumes in the series provide an extensive collection of facts about Black and minority history in Nevada.
“This is not a Nobel Prize winner for literature; it is not a Pulitzer for investigative journalism. Do not expect to see it on the Newberry Medal list,” said Ken Dalton, founder and president of Our Story, Inc. “What it is, is a compilation of factoids bringing to life many of the people and events that have gone fairly unrecorded in our community for over 100 years. It is a living list of stories waiting to be told by students, by teachers, by writers through reports, classroom presentations, dissertations and ‘real’ books.”
What it doesn t have is a Las Vegas museum.
That could be changing. The city of Las Vegas is in the earliest stages of developing a museum that would chronicle the city s history.
Last month, Mayor Carolyn Goodman, Councilman Cedric Crear, and other members of the Las Vegas Centennial Commission heard a report on creating a museum to chronicle the community’s history.
Both Goodman and Crear told State of Nevada that a key goal of such a project would be to highlight the contributions minority communities made to the evolution of the city.
A possible cautionary tale, though, is the Nevada Museum of Art’s years-long and so far fruitless efforts to expand into Las Vegas. The Reno-based museum said the pandemic forced it to put expansion plans on hold and will revisit the subject in two years.
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The north trench of Michael Heizer’s Double Negative, one of two 30ft-wide, 50ft-deep trenches created on the Mormon Mesa in 1969 Photo: Thure Johnson
A planned solar power plant on the Mormon Mesa near Overton, Nevada could affect the viewing of Michael Heizer’s monumental
Double Negative (1969) a land art installation of two 50 ft-deep trenches dug across a natural canyon on the eastern end of the remote desert site.
The Battle Born Solar Project under development by the California-based renewable energy company Arevia Power is estimated to cost $1bn and cover around 9,000 acres of the Mormon Mesa, which spans around 150,000 acres.