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Exploring Forestry in Northern Arizona: 2024 Reilly Internship
Northern Arizona University’s Cline Library invites applications for the 2024 Elizabeth M. and P. T. Reilly Internship. The intern will work closely with Special Collections and Archives (SCA) staff to develop an exhibit that explores the relationship between forests, forestry, and the city of Flagstaff, Arizona. The Reilly internship is an opportunity for the intern to research, design, and create both a physical display and a virtual online exhibit, to open and launch in October 2024. Flagstaff lies adjacent to…
New Exhibit Showcases Early Days of Rafting the Grand Canyon
Johnny Walker in Lava Falls, 1978. Photo Michael Collier Cline Library has unveiled a new exhibit, “THE GRAND CANYON; A Boatman’s Perspective.” The exhibit, curated by photographer Michael Collier, features 47 photographs that portray and reflect upon the experiences of river running of the 1970s and 1980s. The images were drawn from Michael Collier’s photographic collections. We meet Collier and his river running comrades, paddle alongside them, and begin to feel how the experience was different then – new, raw,…
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