On The Go!

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 […]

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 […]

April 4, 2026, 1 – 2:30 pm
Speaker: Dr. Dana Bennett, historian
In 1914, when Nevada women won the right to vote, they also won the right to hold public office. Four years later, Sadie Hurst of Reno became the first woman to win a seat in the Nevada Legislature, blazing the trail for 20 additional […]