- Still a state of pioneers
- Friday, Oct. 31, 2014
- If you want to know the true nature of Nevada, whose 150th birthday we celebrate today, visit the ruins of St. Thomas, the town founded in 1865 by a group of hardy Mormons. Driven by the pioneer spirit, they…
- Take it from one who knows: Nobody chooses depression
- Sunday, Aug. 17, 2014
- In my experience, depression is not so simple as it's too often made out to be.
- Odd Nevada: Ghost towns, the 'car forest' and a haunted hotel
- Thursday, April 10, 2014
- Three golden spots in the Silver State, filled with strange histories, quirky characters and awesome adventures.
- How they’re constructing a birthday cake befitting a state the size of Nevada
- Wednesday, March 19, 2014
- Could Heidi Englund, her husband, Eric, and her friend Misti Gower replicate the 1964 cake, which measured 21 feet long and 13 feet wide and weighed 1,300 pounds? The baking brain trust has plenty of eager volunteers because, as Gower puts it, “People love cake.” Here's what else they have going for them.
- Monument near Crystal Springs stands as reminder of religious revelation
- Monday, March 17, 2014
- A refrigerator-sized monument stands atop a lonely summit about 100 miles north of Las Vegas, just off State Route 375. It’s a tribute to an angelic revelation ...
- Ely is a long way from the Philippines, but it’s home
- Saturday, March 15, 2014
- Roela Peacock works 17 hours a day, four days a week, to help provide for her family. It’s her version of the American dream — not that she ever planned to live the American dream. Especially in Ely, which is ...
- In Mark Twain's Storey County, the struggle to keep a library alive
- Friday, Jan. 17, 2014
- You'd think that, of all places, there would be a library in Virginia City, where Mark Twain launched his career. It's even called Storey County (if you can overlook the spelling). Well, there was a library here, then it lost its funding. Now it might be making a comeback.
- Where junkers are planted in the desert and called an art display
- Sunday, Jan. 5, 2014
- Passing motorists traveling past the one-time boomtown of Goldfield may well notice the collection of old junkers off the highway, assembled in such a way that it's no ordinary junkyard. Its creators call it art.
- A man's passion to renovate a 147-year-old inn into a bed-and-breakfast
- Sunday, Dec. 15, 2013
- When history buff Rick Main heard of the possibility of buying and renovating a 147-year-old inn in the ghost town of Belmont, he was thrilled. But that was before he confronted some obstacles. Now he's wondering if it's worth it.
- Here's a Nevada nuclear blast site you can visit — just don't eat the dirt
- Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2013
- Nevada is famous as the host of nuclear explosions at the old test site. But here's another site of an underground test — one that you can visit if you know how to find it. Just don't eat the dirt.
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