In The News: Reid Public History Institute
The great room at Walking Box Ranch has been restored to its 1930s heyday, when Hollywood stars Rex Bell and Clara Bow lived there. Just in time for the third anniversary of Avi Kwa Ame’s national monument designation, ÐÔÊӽ紫ý’s Public Lands Institute returned the original furnishings — including the couple’s dining table, still marked by hardened gum Bow once tucked beneath her seat.
Monday marks International Holocaust Remembrance Day and the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp. ÐÔÊӽ紫ý will host an educational event starting at 11:30 a.m. to honor the victims and survivors.
A new exhibit on the Holocaust has opened at the Nevada governor's office in Las Vegas. Gov. Joe Lombardo's office, the Nevada Center for Humanity, and the ÐÔÊӽ紫ý Reid Public History Institute hosted an open house Tuesday for the exhibit, titled "The Holocaust: Reconstructing Shattered Humanity."
A song by pop megastar Taylor Swift has brought new attention to Clara Bow, a major Hollywood film siren in the 1920s who famously left Tinsel Town for Southern Nevada to start a new life with with her cowboy actor husband, Rex Bell.
