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Books and Authors Series
John Keahey
John Keahey’s latest book, Seeking Sicily: A Cultural Journey through Myth and Reality in the Heart of the Mediterranean, is a travel narrative that captures Sicily and its various cultures through his eyes and the eyes of Sicilian authors of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He will share photos of the places he visited and the people he met. Keahey has turned his love for Italy into a career of writing and speaking on the subject.
Ken Sanders
Ken Sanders has been in the rare book business in Utah since the1970s. He founded Ken Sanders Rare Books in 1997 and Dream Garden Press in 1980. He has been engaged in buying, selling, appraising, and publishing new and old books, photography, cartography, and documents for over 30 years. Articles by Ken Sanders have appeared in publications such as OP and Firsts Magazine. Ken first appeared as an appraiser for the Antiques Roadshow on the Salt Lake City 2007 season shows. He has since traveled to San Antonio, Spokane, Dallas, El Paso, Billings, Denver, Phoenix and Hartford with the Roadshow. Ken Sanders is currently a full-time bookseller, among many other things. Forthcoming projects may include a work on Edward Abbey. He is also working on a project about Utah literary mavericks called Uconoclasts with artwork by local artist Trent Call.
Gallery Opening of the Exhibition
Brave Cowboy: An Edward Abbey Retrospective
Curator: Luise Poulton
Location: Special Collections Gallery, J. Willard Marriott Library, level 4
Gallery hours: Monday–Friday, 8:00–6:00; Saturday, 9:00–6:00; Hours differ during University breaks and holidays.
The exhibition is FREE and open to the public.
American novelist and author Edward Abbey (1927–1989) became an icon for grassroots activism. In the 1970s, after The Monkey Wrench Gang was published, he gained near-cult status in the American West environmentalist movement. Others would find much to disdain in his philosophy. This exhibition highlights the work of Edward Abbey, from an early story about war (1947) to writings as a contributor for the University of New Mexico’s Thunderbird to his novels, short stories and essays throughout the 50s, 60s, 70s and 80s. The Special Collections Department of the J. Willard Marriott Library thanks Eric Hvolboll for his generous donation of his collection of Edward Abbey’s writings.
For more information: bookartsprogram@utah.edu or 801-585-9191
The American West Center, Friends of the Marriott Library and the Utah Humanities Council present
Joseph E.Taylor III
Lecture: The Estranging Trend in Outdoor Sports
The Agony and Ecstasy of Climbing Films: Nature and Culture in Outdoor Sports: Film Workshop and Discussion
Roy Webb
In 1963, after more than 50 years of planning to dam the Green River, it finally happened as part of the Colorado River Storage Project. In Lost Canyons of the Green River, Roy Webb takes the reader back in time to discover what lay along this section of the Green River before the Flaming Gorge Dam was built, and provides a historical account of this section of the Colorado River system.
