NevadaGram #66 – Carson City, Goldfield and elsewhere
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The Atlanta Journal-Constitution celebrates Chinese New Year in Las Vegas.
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NevadaGram #84 – Cruising the Sagebrush Sea (continued)
My son John and I arrived in Elko late on a sunny summer afternoon.
John had spent 15 months as a platoon leader in Baghdad, and this excursion into the sagebrush was our first...
NevadaGram #193 – A Drive down 95
Driving and jiving down 95, first stop in Yerington where we had some bad news: Kings Diner, last year's great Yerington discovery, is gone. We liked the food, but more than that we liked...
NevadaGram #199 – Skiing in Nevada, yep
Our Guest Author this month is Curtis Fong, “The Guy From Tahoe”. He has been a familiar figure on the ski slopes of Lake Tahoe, on the tv screen and on the radio, for...
From Winnemucca to the Sea
Winnemucca to the Sea
The Winnemucca to the Sea highway was proposed by locals and ranchers In the 1950’s thinking they needed a direct route to the sea in Crescent City. A group formed to...
NevadaGram #173 – Elko’s Christmas Trees, 2016 Must-See Must-Do, Global Tourism Summit
Christmas in Elko is a delightful mini-season that begins each year with the Festival of the Trees, which came this year on the last day of November.
This is one of the major annual art...
NevadaGram #34 – All about Nevada
If you have visited our home page lately, you may have clicked the link to Edna Purviance, Nevada's Forgotten Movie Star. For a long time I thought Pansilee Larson and I were the only...
NevadaGram #108 – Edna’s 115th in Winnemucca, Scandal in old Tonopah
Despite its affinity for famous people from Kit Carson to Frank Sinatra, Nevada has relatively few notable natives. Even Wayne Newton came from somewhere else. How many Nevada-born celebrities can you name?
Emma Nevada was...
NevadaGram #65 Carson City, Virginia City, Gold Hill, Carson Valley
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Ishmael Reed rides the Holiday Train to Reno.
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NevadaGram #142 – A Visit to Tuscarora
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Tuscarora's great event takes place every other year, usually over the Memorial Day weekend: Open Studios, during which visitors may tour the ateliers and meet the "sensitives" (as my friend Buckeye Blake...
NevadaGram #116 – Rural RoundUp in Mesquite, Surprise in Eureka
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American Airlines introduces its passengers to Sheriff Stone of Gold Point.
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NevadaGram #32 – 1400 miles through the sagebrush, part one
I'm still unpacking from a 9-day, 1400-mile trip through the sagebrush. Some highlights:
In Hawthorne people were already buying red, white and blue petunias to plant in their gardens for the Armed Forces Day celebration,...
NevadaGram #187 – Snowbound at Tahoe, Nevada Correspondence, Comstock Mining Update
Mark McLaughlin
Our Guest Author is an award-winning, nationally published author, speaker, and photographer with seven books and more than 750 articles in print.
He has been a regular contributor to California and Nevada media, and has won 5 Nevada...
NevadaGram #61 – Northern Nevada Railway Centennial in Ely, Ten Essentials for your Nevada...
We had a great time at the Nevada Northern Railway's Centennial celebration.
We stayed over the night before in Eureka, and managed to get into Ely in time to join in the pancake breakfast that...
NevadaGram #113 – Governor’s Conference
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Association News Magazine.
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I attended the Governor's Conference on Tourism in December. It was held at the...
NevadaGram #69 – The World Comes to Virginia City
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The Boston Globe Visits Laughlin.
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On Friday May 18, the world of...
NevadaGram #128 – April 2012 Tonopah, Death Valley Junction
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USA Today includes Virginia City's Americana Music Festival among the 10 best.
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NevadaGram #150 – Comstock Mining Update, Must See-Must Do 2014
Comstock Mining Update: At its regularly scheduled meeting on January 2, the Lyon County Commission broke all precedent by ignoring its Planning commission's recommendation to deny the Comstock Mining Inc's Master Plan Amendment and Zoning...
NevadaGram #134 – October 2012 Goldfield Days, Traveling Teenager
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Indian Country Magazine visits Lake Tahoe.
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Goldfield Days was an adventure.
We have rich memories of...
NevadaGram #231 — Johnny Skae’s Fish Fry
Johnny Skae's Fish Fry
by David Toll
This glimpse of the good life on the Comstock, was derived from "My Memories of the Comstock: an eye witness account of The Richest Place on Earth" by Harry...
NevadaGram #56 – Pyramid Lake, Amargosa Valley
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Arthur Frommer gets married in Las Vegas.
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NevadaGram #125 – January 2012 Handing Out Awards, Wild Women in Elko
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In the State of Nevada 2011 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report, jingle dancers are juxtaposed with state statistics.
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NevadaGram #83 – Cruising the Sagebrush Sea
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The LA Times gets into the swim in Las Vegas.
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Since he...
NevadaGram #15 – Governor’s Conference, Reno, Aurora, Las Vegas
The recent Governor's Conference on Tourism, held in Reno last week, focused on Nevada's new slogan, "Bring It On". Poster Boy for the new campaign (and speaker at the Tuesday luncheon) is Glen Plake,...
NevadaGram #64 – Merry Christmas
Season's Greetings from The Nevada Travel Network and the Las Vegas Convention & Visitors Authority
NevadaGram #103 – From Reno To Winnemucca and Back By Train
I mentioned in an earlier NevadaGram (not getting the NevadaGram yet? Sign up here) that there will be an almost-impromptu birthday party for Edna Purviance in October at Winnemucca.
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The...
NevadaGram #6 – Yerington and Winnemucca Dining, The Rainbow Turns 7 and Nevada Goes...
John Sanderson writes from Yerington to enthuse about Joe Dini's Lucky Club on Main Street as one of the finer dinner houses in rural Nevada:
Giuseppe's is open Friday and Saturday nights and it's the...
NevadaGram #127 – March 2012 Rural Round Up at Incline Village, Will James settles...
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The New York Times goes winter kayaking on Lake Tahoe.
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NevadaGram #133 – September 2012 Goldfield Days, Postcard from Kingston, Calamity on the Comstock
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The Guardian (UK) cuts a rug in Las Vegas.
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NevadaGram #71 – Finding Roy Frisch
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The S.F. Chronicle walks around Reno.
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Trip Report #17 – Jean, Lake Mead and The Giant Nail
Fishing is hot at Pyramid Lake right now. Go to the south end of the nets (near Sutcliffe), or the area around the Block House at the south end of the lake, or...
NevadaGram #209 – Christmas Trains, Secrets of the Picon, and the Guy from Tahoe...
Nevada is blessed with a handful of historic railroads operating around the state, and they all devote considerable energy to creating forever Christmas memories. If there's a child in your world, these train rides...
NevadaGram #191 – Dream Train to Elko, Comstock Mining Update
The 34th National Cowboy Poetry Gathering is scheduled for January 29-February 3 next year. Its theme will be "Basques and Buckaroos: Herding Cultures of Basin, Range and Beyond" and tickets will go on sale...
NevadaGram #85 – September 2008 Meet Squaw Tom and Halloween around Nevada
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The Sacramento Bee enjoys Oktoberfest in the Carson Valley.
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NevadaGram #79 – On the Road, 1908, 1909 and 2008
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The Boston Globe Visits Laughlin.
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On the anniversary of The Great 1908...
NevadaGram #24 – Too Much Fun at the Armpit Festival, Historic Hotel Auctioned, and...
The First Annual Festival in the Pit was a huge success, and Battle Mountain is still experiencing the bliss.
This flamboyant and flourishing offspring of the Ultimate Insult and the Old Spice deodorant company, drew...
NevadaGram #62 – October 2006 Fernley, Gold Point, Carson Valley and Lovelock
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The Boston Globe Visits Laughlin.
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A few days ago I found myself...
NevadaGram #115 – Mining Threatens Virginia City National Historic Landmark, Fitzsimmons Defeats Corbett...
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The New York Times goes winter kayaking on Lake Tahoe.
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NevadaGram #59 – Three Nevada Ghost Towns and How They Survive
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The LA Times Discovers Pyramid Lake.
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Ghost Towns are among Nevada's most...
NevadaGram #8 – April Armpit, McGill Drugstore and biking across Nevada
Early in April I aimed Buttercup east on Interstate 80 bound for Battle Mountain. I wanted to live life in the Armpit.
Turns out it's not bad. Yes, Battle Mountain is a visual disappointment, a...
