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Legislators and Lobbyists Guide to Power Dining in Carson City
Urban safari: Observe Legislators and Lobbyists
At Work from a nearby table in Carson City
by Barry Smith
As 63 legislators and hundreds of lobbyists arrive in Carson City for the 2019 session of the Nevada Legislature,...
Carson City Correspondence – April 2019
‘The Mustang’ movie filmed in Carson City hits theaters
I opened the March issue of Rolling Stone magazine to find a 4-1/2-star review of ‘The Mustang,’ the movie shot at Nevada State Prison in 2017...
Carson City Correspondence – March 2019
I think we should start a new tradition of giving each other gifts on Nevada Day — something made in the state, or at least Nevada-related.
I realize we have several months before Nevada Day...
NevadaGram #211 – Power Dining in Carson City, Skiing Elko, Driving Dirt Roads and...
19 Carson City Restaurants Legislators
and Lobbyists Visited in 2019
You Should Too!
by Barry Smith
When 63 legislators and hundreds of lobbyists arrive in Carson City for the 2019 session of the Nevada Legislature they continued a...
Carson City Correspondence – February 2019
In most of Northern Nevada, the four seasons — Wind, Smoke, Avalanche, and Flood — come and go with the unpredictability of the weather. In Carson City, though, we can depend on the regularity...
Carson City Correspondence – July 2018
To the Beginning of a Beautiful Friendship: Downtown Carson City’s Adams 308
“Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship,” is the line that runs through my head when I think about...
Corbett vs. Fitzsimmons, Carson City 1897
The dawn of battle day In Carson was all that could be desired by the several thousands of people who have traveled many miles to the snow-bound valley to see the great Corbett-Fitzsimmons fight.
Late...
NevadaGram #186 – Must See-Must Do in 2017, Carson City at Christmas, the January...
A Brand New Carson City was unwrapped at Christmas time.
Photo courtesy Carson City Pix
Not only had the last of the street barricades and detours been removed from the renovated stretch of Carson Street downtown, but...
Carson City Correspondence – December 2016
College Class with Designs to Transform V&T Train Station
V&T Railroad asks Truckee Meadows Community College for train depot remodel concepts
The Virginia & Truckee Railroad has partnered with an architectural design class at Truckee...
Locomotive Glenbrook Under Steam at Nevada State Railroad Museum, Carson City
by Wendell Huffman
After slumbering for 90 years, the locomotive Glenbrook is once again under steam, blasting its whistle just a few miles from where it ran in 1875.
The Glenbrook is a narrow gauge 2-6-0...
Cruising Carson City, November 2015
Carson City is a real city now. No, really.
There are lots of ways to measure this, but in my mind the true mark of a city is whether or not you can do all...
The Great Escape from Carson City, September 17, 1871
Volney Rollins checked his sidearm and buttoned his coat against a cold draft as he walked down the concrete hallway toward the dining area. His last duty was to secure the prisoners. It had...
NevadaGram #172 – Carson City at Christmastime
Carson City is a real city now. No, really.
There are lots of ways to measure this, but in my mind the true mark of a city is whether or not you can do all...
Nevada Day in Carson City 2013
It began as Admission Day in 1938 with a modest celebration at the Capitol and the first such parade on Carson Street.
TODAY IT IS NEVADA DAY, the grandest 72-hour day of our year, and...
NevadaGram #147 – Nevada Day in Carson City
IT IS NEVADA DAY, the grandest 72-hour day of our year, and the great Nevada Day Parade in Carson City on Saturday is its most splendid expression, a gaudy 3-hour procession of floats, bands...
NevadaGram #115 – Mining Threatens Virginia City National Historic Landmark, Fitzsimmons Defeats Corbett...
What They're saying About Us
The New York Times goes winter kayaking on Lake Tahoe.
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The Affectionate and Intimately Detailed Guide to the Most Interesting State in America is available at...
NevadaGram #97 – Squaw Tom’s ‘Cat Queedup’ and uniquely delightful experiences in Carson City,...
What They're saying About Us
The San Francisco Chronicle drives around Lake Tahoe.
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Last year I introduced...
NevadaGram #66 – Carson City, Goldfield and elsewhere
What They're saying About Us
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution celebrates Chinese New Year in Las Vegas.
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Last time...
NevadaGram #65 Carson City, Virginia City, Gold Hill, Carson Valley
What They're saying About Us
Ishmael Reed rides the Holiday Train to Reno.
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This time I had...
NevadaGram #27 – The MaryJane Sisters, a Reno Hotel with a Heart and Doing...
The only disappointment of my recent visit to Las Vegas was that Hofbrauhaus Las Vegas was not yet open.
The $12 million, enclosed beer garden, a replica of the famous one in Munich,...
Trip Report #21 – Denio, Carson Valley and Carson City, Death Valley, Sparks, Las...
I made a little trip out I-80 and took the opportunity to visit Denio, the little remnant of a town on the Oregon border via US 95 and Nevada Routes 140 and 292. It's...
NevadaGram #37 – Virginia City, Rawhide, Las Vegas, Carson Valley, Ione, Ely and Topaz...
It must have been the rumble of Harleys that woke me up to the fact that things are changing in Virginia City. Landrum's, the locally famous diner on Reno's South Virginia Street (since 1947),...
150-Year-Old Locomotive Reno Returns to Virginia City
Most Famous Engine in Movie History, Star in 100+ Films
The most historic existing icon of Nevada’s past, the 150-year-old Virginia & Truckee Railroad steam locomotive Reno, has made its final run full circle, returning...
NevadaGram #233 -A Culinary Adventure in Carson and Smith Valleys
by David Toll
Photographs by Robin Cobbey
To celebrate the increasing freedom from pandemic worry and constraint, last weekend Robin and I embarked on a culinary adventure: Dining Out in the Sagebrush. We left Gold Hill...
Silver City Guard Ambushes BiCentennial Wagon Train
by David Toll
b&w photos by Gary Elam (except as noted)
When it was announced that Nevada's Bicentennial Wagon Train would make its first stop at Silver City on its way to Valley Forge, local BiCentennial...
NevadaGram #225 – Cowboy Joe, Carson Valley, Valley of Fire, Burning Man
by David Toll
If I hadn't slowed to look down the road west, I probably wouldn't have noticed the eight-year-old Chevy parked on the shoulder about 100 yards from the intersection. The hood of the...
Hiking Among Carson Valley’s Spring Bloom
by Amy DeMuth
As winter days lengthen into spring, nothing ushers in the new season like an ample dose of sunshine, a big breath of fresh air and a ramble among the company of nature....
NevadaGram #212 – Boulder City 1935, Squaw Tom, Sourdough Slim, and the MaryJane Sisters...
See the Wind and Catch it
Based on the true story that Ila Clements Davey (Godby) told me, as I imagined it.
by Alan Goya
There was a lot for a kid to do in Boulder City...
NevadaGram #206 – A Visit to Carson Valley, Goldfield Days, Bicycling in Nevada and...
Carson Valley has the distinction of being one of the most beautiful places on earth, just a half hour's drive, via the Kingsbury Grade with its stunning views, from another of the most beautiful...
NevadaGram #204 – Kingston, Night Out at Lake Tahoe and Mountain Biking Trails...
The best way to get to Kingston is by way of US 50 to Austin, then west down into the Reese River Valley a couple of miles and then south on the road marked...
NevadaGram #202 – Rural RoundUp in Tonopah, Big Spike in Boulder City, Reno Night...
Rural RoundUp, the annual grand conclave of tourism workers from all around rural Nevada, was held this year in Tonopah. The speakers were insightful and entertaining, the workshops apt and informative, the meals ambitious...
Carson Valley Correspondence – April 2018
Heritage:
The word “heritage” as a noun, is defined as “something that is handed down from the past, as a tradition.” As an adjective it is defined as “noting or relating to a product, place,...
Carson Valley Correspondence – March 2018
On the morning of February 2nd last month, “Punxsutawney Phil,” the legendary weather predicting groundhog saw his shadow. This, according to folklore, means we’ll have 6 more weeks of winter. However, here in Carson...
A Visit to Eagles and Agriculture in Carson Valley
The last time I was an agri-tourist was 42 years ago, when I was led inside, outside, through and around a pig farm in Aarhus Denmark, but my memories of it are still vivid...
NevadaGram #197 — Virginia City at Christmastime
Virginia City is what's left of the Richest Place on Earth, and a major attraction for visitors in Nevada. It's a wonderful place to visit any time, but if you really want to catch...
