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September 10 and 11
9am-2pm

Staked Plains Roundup

 

Partnering with the Junior College, Staked Plains Roundup is an opportunity for second graders to learn about the Western way of life: past, present and future.

 

September 13, 2015
2pm

Fall Film Series

The Great Dictator

Dictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecution from Hynkel's regime.

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September 10, 2015
Fall Film Series

The Fall Film Series starts this weekend with a fresh batch of movies.  In honor of the 70th Anniversary of the end of World War II the Western Heritage Museum and Lea County Cowboy Hall of Fame will feature a Classic World War II Film Series. All of the films in this series were chosen because of their historic and cultural significance.  Movies start at 2pm.  Admission is FREE and refreshments are provided.

September 13 - The Great Dictator
Dictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecution from Hynkel's regime.

September 20 - To be or Not to Be
During the Nazi occupation of Poland, an acting troupe becomes embroiled in a Polish soldier's efforts to track down a German spy.

September 27 - The Best Years of Our Lives
Three WWII veterans return home to small-town America to discover that they and their families have been irreparably changed.

October 4 - Sands fo Iwo Jima
A dramatization of the World War II Battle of Iwo Jima.

October 11 - From Here to Eternity
In 1941 Hawaii, a private is cruelly punished for not boxing on his unit's team, while his captain's wife and second in command are falling in love.

October 18 - Stalag 17
When two escaping American World War II prisoners are killed, the German POW camp barracks black marketeer, J.J. Sefton, is suspected of being an informer.

October 25 - Bridge on the River Kwai
After settling his differences with a Japanese PoW camp commander, a British colonel co-operates to oversee his men's construction of a railway bridge for their captors - while oblivious to a plan by the Allies to destroy it.

November 1 - Judgement at Nuremberg
In 1948, an American court in occupied Germany tries four Nazi judges for war crimes.

November 8 - Patton
The World War II phase of the career of the controversial American general, George S. Patton.

Steve LaRance Native American Jewelry Trunk Show

Please join us today as Steve LaRance shows off his beautiful Native American jewelry during this trunk show in the Western Heritage Museum theater.

September 10, 2015

4-6pm

Champion Hoop Dancer, Nakotah LaRance will give a short performance during the show.

Steve LaRance

"When we create art, we share a piece of ourselves with the world," say Steve Wikviya LaRance of the jewelry he makes, along with his wife, Marian Denipah. Their distinctive, tufa-cast jewelry uses traditional Native symbols, like petroglyphs, dragonflies, kachina figures and water signs, in creative contemporary ways. His designs are inspired by historical cast jewelry and other old techniques. Recent inspirations include Aztec, Inca, and Egyptian gold and silver jewelry - even traditional Hawaiian motifs. Lately, he likes to work in high-karat gold, sometimes embellished with precious stones
Steve was raised in the Hopi village of Moencopi. His grandfather, a religious leader from Hotevilla, was a major influence on his life. At Hopi he learned all the traditional arts, and those ceremonial designs are still a part of his work. After becoming a painter, then a sculptor, he now does jewelry that is beautifully designed and impeccably executed. He gathers the semi-hard volcanic tufa from the Hopi Reservation. "I was able to find the site where Charles Loloma used to get his tufa," he says, happily. It is finer-grained than that found elsewhere. Constantly seeking the best is a signature concept of Steve LaRance and his jewelry.

Great Plains: America's Lingering Wild, Photographs by Michael Forsberg

Last week's photo is entitled Face Off - Greater Prairie-Chickens (above).  What is the title of the next photograph from the Great Plains exhibit represented below? The exhibit is open now - November 10, 2015.  #WHMForsberg

 

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