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True West Magazine Old West adventures await across the Cowboy State’s colorful Carbon County Quite likely the most gruesome artifact on exhibit in any museum in Wyoming (maybe the West) is the pair of shoes at the Carbon County Museum in Rawlins. They might appear to be just simple leather shoes, and they are…except that the leather is the skin of Big Nose George Parrott.  When on a history tour of Carbon County, Wyoming, a key stop is Encampment’s Grand Encampment Museum, a superior collection of 14 relocated and restored mining camp buildings. Photo by Candy Moulton The skinning c...

By: Christie Eliezer Live Nation To Take Over WOMAD NZ? Live Nation may be the new producer of WOMAD New Zealand. On Nov. 30 the Taranaki Arts Festival Trust (TAFT) pulled out after 20 years, and after extending the partnership in 2018 with the festival’s UK-based parent company for a further ten years. TAFT chief executive Suzanne Porter cited bankruptcy concerns if a sudden COVID outbreak caused a close-down. She said, “Any cancellation from the beginning of March through to the week of presenting WOMAD would have seen a risk of between NZ$2.8...

i wouldn't blame anyone for staying outside as long as possible. thanks for having me tonight. a real honor to be here. my book covers the six year period when sam clemens became mark twain. in years immediately after the civil war first discovered his true calling as a writer and famous in name, it is the thrill to be here in the san francisco area where he spent many event full-year is as a newspaper reporter and a bohemian and self-described dodger of landlords. he left san francisco although he is supposed to have said -- know when can track it down -- the coldest winter i ever s...