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Saturday, April 25, 2026
10 am to 12 pm
Exploring Nevada – On The GO! Knights of Pythias Cemetery Talk & Tour
Doors open at 9:30 am
9:30 – 10 am Check in, pay, and sign the liability waiver
10 – 11 am Welcome, introduction, talk, Q&A, and break
11 – 12 pm Cemetery tour and explore

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Writers’ Wednesday – On The GO!
Wednesday, June 10, 2026
5:00 – 5:30 pm – Building open
5:30 – 6:30 pm – Lecture

Speaker: Tami Force, Photographer, Writer, and Traveler

Book Titles: In the Shadow of the Eastern Sierra: Ghost Towns and Historical Sites in the Eastern Sierra-Northern Region and In the Glow of the Sierra: Ghost Towns and […]

Writers’ Wednesday – On The GO!
Wednesday, May 13, 2026
5:00 – 5:30 pm – Building open
5:30 – 6:30 pm – Lecture

Speaker: Tammy Buzick, author

Book Title: Bowers Mansion: The Legacy of a Comstock Family, published by the University of Nevada Press.

Summary of Talk: Few estates born from the […]

Writers’ Wednesday – On The GO!
Wednesday, April 8, 2026
5:00 – 5:30 pm – Building open
5:30 – 6:30 pm – Lecture

Speaker: Mark Curtis, author

Book Title: One of a Kind: The People and Places that make Reno the Biggest Litty City in the World, Volume 2

Summary of Book:

Personal stories from northern Nevadans past and present, including […]

Bulkeley Wells and the United Comstock Mines

Wednesday, January 14, 2026, from 5:30 to 6:30 pm, doors open at 5 pm, Writers’ Wednesday – On The GO!

Author Richard E. Lippoth will talk about his book, Bulkeley Wells and the Uncertain Luck of the Mining Game. ⁠This book is a biography about an important but forgotten U.S. […]

Writers’ Wednesday – On The GO!
Wednesday, March 11, 2026
5:00 – 5:30 pm – Building open
5:30 – 6:30 pm – Lecture

Speakers: Erich Obermayr and Robert W. McQueen, authors and archeologists

Book Title: Historical Archaeology in the Cortez Mining District: Under the Nevada Giant, published by the University of Nevada Press.

Title of Talk: “An Archaeological Tour of Nevada’s […]

Writers’ Wednesday – On The GO!
Wednesday, February 11, 2026
5:00 – 5:30 pm – Building open
5:30 – 6:30 pm – Lecture

Speaker:Pat Hickey, Author and Columnist

Book Title: Here and Hereafter: Nevada Voices on Life and the Great Beyond

Summary of Talk: A profound exploration of human experience through the lens of those who call Nevada home. The […]

Writers’ Wednesday – On The GO!
Wednesday, January 14, 2026
5:00 – 5:30 pm – Building open
5:30 – 6:30 pm – Lecture

Speaker: Richard Lippoth, Mining Engineer and Geologist

Book Title: Bulkeley Wells and the Uncertain Luck of the Mining Game

Title of Talk: Bulkeley Wells and the United Comstock Mines

Book Overview: This book is a biography about an […]

June 6, 2026
1:00 – 3:00 pm, a two-hour special program
Title of Program: Nevada’s Age-Old Question: Dayton vs Genoa. A special American 250 Nevada Program

Speakers: Michael Fischer, Jeff Kintop, Stan Paher, and Linda Clements.

Summary of Program: This is a special two-hour program that will look at the age-old question of whether Dayton or Genoa was the […]

May 2, 2026, 1 – 2:30 pm
Speakers: David and Gayle Woodruff, historians and authors
Donnor Summit photo

Daring and Dangerous Donner Summit

Using a trove of rare and seldom‑seen photographs, local historians and authors David and Gayle Woodruff take you on a fast‑paced and often humorous journey across Donner Summit—one of America’s most […]