by Jeri Chadwell-Singley
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by tom tomorrow
What would a Nevada NFL team be named? Asked at Brew HaHa Beer Fest Erik Ottmann Marketing manager
We actually had a discussion about this because the Raiders were looking at moving to Las Vegas, and I said they should change their name to the Las Vegas Flyers because they have all the flyers for all the women down on the Strip.
Robert Gaines Social Security employee
Oh, boy. Let’s see. How about the Sage Hens? Isn’t that the ones that are going endangered? The Sage Hens? There you go. The Sage-Grouse.
Samantha Alvarez Domestic engineer
Come again
It’s got to be something to do with silver. Silver Backs, because we’re the Silver State, right?
There may be a difference between art museums The recent exhibition at the Nevada Museum of Art, and history museums, but we’re not sure there should Tahoe: A Visual History, was terrific for the community be. People should be able to argue and discuss what and for visitors from outside our area. Even for locals they are seeing. who thought they knew the history involved, there was In the case of the Tahoe exhibition, the Nevada new information. Pieces that have never been gathered Museum of Art was functioning as a history museum. together made a historical mosaic that will likely not be People frequently took notes on the items they viewed. seen again. An unwieldy but equally informative coffee Students made repeat visits. Their tasks would have been table book was published to accompany the exhibition. made easier if they could have taken photos. If faded it all made history more accessible. parchment or copyright was a concern, those specific When we went through the halls, we heard few exhibits could have been posted for no photos. There complaints. One was that there was too little on the was no reason to shield the entire movies made at Lake Tahoe. A visiWe hope the NMA exhibition. tor from Texas mentioned it, but he Having said all that, we hope the also understood that there were limits is not finished NMA is not finished with Lake Tahoe. to an exhibition that covered two centuries, and it could not include with Lake Tahoe. There is still much of its story to be told. Is it possible that there is a second everything. Tahoe exhibit in the NMA’s future? Another complaint was that Besides Tahoe motion pictures, there is the era of photography was not allowed, and that one, we believe, had greater merit. It speaks to what museum experiences graceful development of the basin, when great estates were built and steamships crossed the lake, when lumber should be. They should not be on-tiptoe, hushed-respect returned after the Comstock annihilated Tahoe’s forests, experiences. Many people dislike museums for exactly when millionaires and local families rubbed elbows at that reason, and they learn to dislike them at a formative local markets and environmental despoliation was far in time—in childhood. Being hushed can translate to a the future, when hustlers promoted plans to drain the lake lifetime habit of avoiding museums. for irrigation in Nevada or water supplies in California, That’s one of the reasons the Nevada State Museum when 1920s-1930s drought exposed wonderful scientific in Carson City is such a great place to take children. finds on the lake bottom. Things are more informal, less structured. Visitors take People went out of Tahoe: A Visual History chatpictures of each other in front of exhibits. Speaking in tering about it. It was a joy. We hope the museum a casual tone is not chastised. It is a good first museum will build on the impression that exhibition made on for children to visit. This, too, helps make history more the public by returning to the topic again. Ω accessible.
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FEATURE STORY
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ARTS&CULTURE
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Mark Alvarez Retail manager
Yeah, I think something along those lines, like the Silver Backs. I like that because of the Silver State, right?
Elisha Harris Case manager
I don’t know. What would we be called? The Silver Strikers. I don’t know. Why not? The Nevada Silver Strikers because they struck silver. Silver Strikers. That’s why, because there was so much silver here. We are the Silver State.
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