Silver Reef Museum

UMFA-DWS Community Pleinair
2024-03-30 13:00 - 16:00 UTC | Silver Reef Cosmopolitan, 903 Wells Fargo Rd., Leeds, UT, 84746, United States
Please register for this FREE event: https://tinyurl.com/UMFA-DWSCommunityPleinair

Smithsonian Exhibit | Crossroads
2024-04-01 11:00 - 15:00, 2024-04-02 11:00 - 15:00, 2024-04-03 11:00 - 15:00, 2024-04-04 11:00 - 15:00, 2024-04-05 11:00 - 15:00, 2024-04-06 11:00 - 15:00, 2024-04-08 11:00 - 15:00, 2024-04-09 11:00 - 15:00 and 16 more dates | Silver Reef Museum, 1903 Wells Fargo Rd, Leeds, UT, 84746, United States
See our Smithsonian Exhibit | Crossroads page for more information.

Washington County Decision Makers: Where are the Women?
2024-04-04 19:00 - 20:00 | Boeing Auditorium, Udvar-Hazy Building, Utah Tech University, 225 S 700 E, St. George, UT, 84770
FREE! Please register to attend by clicking this link: https://form.jotform.com/240537205599159
Presented by Arts to Zion and Utah Tech University (formerly Dixie State) and Washington County Historical Society and Silver Reef Museum and Utah Humanities at Boeing Auditorium, Udvar-Hazy Building, Saint George UT
Crossroads oﬀers a chance to look at the role of Women over the past century – to highlight the changes women have experienced – and think about what’s next.
Washington County is far more urban than rural at this point. This change from rural to urban presents opportunities and challenges. When does unbridled growth begin to confuse our crossroads with promises unable to be kept – creating an intersection that promises prosperity but at a speed that may erase livability. We are still determining if the growth we see will erase livability. Women’s roles in this evolution from rural to urban will be our focus.
Panel Discussion: Kerry Kastler, Pam Gardiol, and Rachel Ramsay.
Moderator: Lisa Rutherford is Public Policy Chair for St. George AAUW organization, serves on the board of UUFSU, and is a local writer.
Kerry Kastler is Intermountain Health Southwest Region’s Retired Chief Development Oﬃcer, past chairman of the St. George Area Chamber of Commerce, and St. George Planning Commission. Has served on several non-proﬁt boards and has contributed numerous op-eds to area newspapers.
Pam Gardiol is president of Gardiol & Associates, serving public, private, and non-proﬁt organizations in Utah and the West Coast for 30 years. For two decades, served on the faculty teaching organizational management at three universities. Served twelve years on the Ogden City Planning Commission, during which was the Chair. Currently serves on the Ivins City Planning Commission.
Rachel Ramsay, MFA, Associate Professor of Web & Digital Design · Utah Tech University, AAUW STEM/E-Smart Chair. Educator, designer, and serial entrepreneur – Apple Distinguished Educator Class of 2019.

What My Grandmother taught me-Navajo woman
2024-04-11 19:00 - 20:00 | Boeing Auditorium, Udvar-Hazy Building, Utah Tech University, 225 S 700 E, St. George, UT, 84770
FREE!-Please Register:
http://tinyurl.com/GrandmothersStory
Presented by Arts to Zion and Washington County Historical Society and Utah Tech University (formerly Dixie State) and Silver Reef Museum and Utah Humanities at Arts to Zion at Gallery 35, Saint George UT
Her grandmother’s teachings of cultural traditions and customs, education, self-reliance, service, kindness, and love are as important in today’s world as they were back then. Her presentation is informative, educational, and entertaining with some humor.
ABOUT THE PRESENTER: Lucille Hunt
Lucille Hunt is a recognized and respected traditional Navajo storyteller and translator. She loves and enjoys sharing her stories that have been taught to her from childhood. She was born and raised in eastern Navajoland. She lived in a hogan next to her grandmother Haazbaa’, from whom she learned many of the traditional ways and stories. She was introduced to the English language at the age of six when she started school at the Bureau of Indian Affairs boarding school in New Mexico. During her presentation, she will share some of her first encounters with this new world. As a child, she also learned the traditional dances as her grandfather beat the drum and sang the songs. She will share with you one of those dances. Lucille has been a member of the Utah Humanities presenters for many years and is a recipient of the Utah Humanities Council Road Scholar 2005 Merit Award. Her presentations have been under these titles: “My Grandmother’s Teachings”, “The Changing Navajo”, and “The Navajo Way: Customs and Traditions, Past and Present”. She has presented to audiences of all sizes in public schools and universities, as well as private and government organizations throughout the state of Utah and other states. Lucille is a professional translator of her Native Navajo language. She continues to work in translating materials for various institutions. She has written many short stories of which the most popular one is titled, “The Eagle Can Fly”. It is a fable about an eaglet who discovers the power of his heritage and begins to exercise that power. She’s married to Calvin Hunt of Santa Clara, Utah, where they reside. She loves that on the day she married, 37 years ago, she became a wife, a mother, and a grandmother. She is now a great-grandmother.

Lawmen & Muddy River Gang - Old Wild West Shootout Shows
2024-05-11 11:00 - 12:00 | Silver Reef Cosmopolitan, 903 Wells Fargo Rd., Leeds, UT, 84746, United States

Lawmen & Muddy River Gang Wild West Shootout Show
2024-05-11 12:00 - 12:30 | Silver Reef Cosmopolitan, 903 Wells Fargo Rd., Leeds, UT, 84746, United States

Pine Valley Mountain Flora
2024-05-25 10:00 - 11:00 | Silver Reef Cosmopolitan, 903 Wells Fargo Rd., Leeds, UT, 84746, United States
SILVER REEF MUSEUM
Cosmopolitan Event Saturday, May 25 and June 1, 2024 -10am
Pine Valley Mountain Flora;
Highest Plant Diversity in Utah-Part 1 and Part 2
The unique geology, elevation range, and convergence of the Colorado Plateau, Great Basin, and Mojave Desert ecogeographic regions, has set the stage for the greatest plant diversity in the state of Utah. Approximately 39% of all Utah native plant species populate the foothills to the highest elevations of Pine Valley Mountain Wilderness Area, Cottonwood Canyon Wilderness Area, north Red Cliffs National Conservation Area, and the surrounding Dixie National Forest.
About The Presenter: DEL WILLIAM SMITH
Del grew up a surf rat and high school athlete, in Huntington Beach, California. After high school, he worked his way up to an engineering position in military aerospace, building plane and missile parts, and medical electronics, building heart pacers. At 27 years old, he left south- ern California for college. He received his bachelor’s degree, in biology, with minors in chemistry, geology, botany, and zoology, from Southern Utah University. He chose to attend graduate school at Brigham Young University, and research black bears. The opportunity opened up to research the symbiotic relationships between plants and lichens in Cedar Breaks and Ashdown Gorge, completing a master’s degree, in botany. He continued his research at Brigham Young University, with the relationships between plants, rocks, soils, and lichens, in Cedar Breaks and Ashdown Gorge, and completed a doctorate degree, in botany, with a minor in statistics. Del has taught biology and coached basketball, softball, and baseball at the high school level, winning league championships with his Varsity Softball team and JV Basketball team. He has taught plant taxonomy, botany, biology, geology, and environmental science, for 37 years, at BYU, UVU, Pierce College, West Hills College, and Modesto College, and has spent the last 17 years at Dixie State University. Del also received the 2014 Dixie State University Teacher of the Year Award.
Reservations suggested: https://form.jotform.com/231907888548171 or 435.879.2254
Donations appreciated!
