By Robin Stark
Even after living in Las Vegas, Nevada, for more than 30 years and spending countless hours hiking and biking through its deserts and mountains, I have yet to tire of these experiences. The plants and animals possess a remarkable ability to survive under some of the harshest and most challenging conditions. Their resilience serves as a reminder of the endurance and fortitude required to remain strong when confronting difficult circumstances.
Read MoreBy Elisa Garcia
Growing up in a Mexican American household means your mom had frijoles on the stovetop when you came home from school but you asked for bologna and cheese sandwiches on white bread as a kid to fit in with your peers. It means understanding that you can in fact enjoy peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and tortas. The best of both worlds.
Read MoreBy DW McKinney
Since my mother moved to Las Vegas last year, we’ve taken to exploring the city together. Because she’s been interested in Las Vegas’s history, this spring I took us on a tour of the Harrison Guest House in the Historic Westside.
Read MoreBy Sarah Lohman
I'm Sarah Lohman, a food historian and author. My latest book Endangered Eating: America’s Vanishing Foods was selected by Nevada Humanities to represent the state at the National Book Festival in Washington, D.C.
Read MoreBy Brad McMullen
My first experience of Basque food was at The Star in Elko. I was visiting town for a job interview, and they insisted on going there for dinner.
Read MoreBy Katie Karnehm-Esh
If you ask who Lone Piñon is, some might say a musical group from New Mexico. Others might say they are a dance band. Still others might say they are folk music educators. But when I first heard them play at the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering, I would have said they were the single greatest hour of delight I’d experienced in 2026.
Read MoreBy Shayla Silvers
This spring, I have been lucky enough to work as a program intern here at Nevada Humanities. For my time at the organization, I have focused on facilitating an event that would align with the humanities values, alongside my own personal interests, to create an event to bring people together and share our stories.
By Mei-Mei Mijares and Niko Mendoza
Recipe for a Beautiful Friendship was written by us for a Pho-etry workshop we did with Nevada Humanities last year. It tells the epic tale of our blossoming friendship that started in 2022 but really felt like uncovering a bulb of sisterhood that had been growing all along…
Read MoreBy Angela M. Brommel
Tucked inside my copy of Who will love the earth is a photocopy of a poem James Kavanaugh wrote for Marydean Martin after her mother’s death, “For Vassie, who passed just before Christmas.”
Read MoreBy Kathy Pham
It has been a little over a month since my end-of-the-year project as a Nevada Humanities intern: creating and leading the community program, Phoetry Night, which celebrated AAPI heritage…
Read MoreBy Angela M. Brommel
All day long the people are people-ing so hard it feels impossible
to breathe sometimes. The only free place left is in the sky.
