Black Rock Institute http://blackrockinstitute.org Reno, Nevada, & Beyond Fri, 11 May 2012 16:21:48 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Mackedon speaks May 17th for Fernley Rotary http://blackrockinstitute.org/2012/05/mackedon-speaks-may-17th-for-fernley-rotary/ http://blackrockinstitute.org/2012/05/mackedon-speaks-may-17th-for-fernley-rotary/#comments Sun, 06 May 2012 12:22:43 +0000 BRI http://blackrockinstitute.org/?p=729 May 17, 2012

SCHEDULED SPEAKER:  Michon Mackedon, author

SPEAKER’S TOPIC:  Nuclear Testing History of Nevada

More information at the Fernley Rotary website: http://www.fernleyrotary.org/

MEETING TIME AND LOCATION: Thursdays, 11:30-1:00 (meeting begins at noon), Crosswinds Church, 3015 Farm District Road, Fernley, Nevada

]]> http://blackrockinstitute.org/2012/05/mackedon-speaks-may-17th-for-fernley-rotary/feed/ 0 May 29, Mackedon speaks at Yerington, NV Rotary meeting http://blackrockinstitute.org/2012/05/mackedon_yerington_rotary/ http://blackrockinstitute.org/2012/05/mackedon_yerington_rotary/#comments Sun, 06 May 2012 12:20:39 +0000 BRI http://blackrockinstitute.org/?p=736 Rotary of Yerington, Nevada
Dini’s Lucky Club
Tuesday @ 7:00 PM

Michon Mackedon, Author of Bombast: Spinning Atoms in the Desert is scheduled to speak at the May 29th Rotary of Yerington meeting.

]]> http://blackrockinstitute.org/2012/05/mackedon_yerington_rotary/feed/ 0 June 5th, Mackedon to speak at Carson City Rotary meeting http://blackrockinstitute.org/2012/05/mackedon_carsoncity_rotary/ http://blackrockinstitute.org/2012/05/mackedon_carsoncity_rotary/#comments Sun, 06 May 2012 12:18:04 +0000 BRI http://blackrockinstitute.org/?p=739 Continue reading →]]> Michon Mackedon will speak about her book, Bombast: Spinning Atoms in the Desert in June, for the Carson City Rotary, at the Carson Nugget Casino.

Tuesday, June 5, 2012 @ 12:00 PM

http://www.carsonrotary.org/

Carson Nugget Casino
507 North Carson Street
Carson City, NV 89701-4222
]]> http://blackrockinstitute.org/2012/05/mackedon_carsoncity_rotary/feed/ 0 June 30th, Mackedon at the Reno, Nevada Historical Society http://blackrockinstitute.org/2012/05/mackedon_reno_nhs/ http://blackrockinstitute.org/2012/05/mackedon_reno_nhs/#comments Sun, 06 May 2012 12:16:38 +0000 BRI http://blackrockinstitute.org/?p=742 Michon Mackedon has been scheduled to speak about her book Bombast: Spinning Atoms in the Desert on Saturday, June 30, 2012, 2:00 PM at the Nevada Historical Society in Reno.

Visit the Nevada Historical Society website for program information.

]]> http://blackrockinstitute.org/2012/05/mackedon_reno_nhs/feed/ 0 Mackedon to speak May 10 at Retired Public Employees of Nevada (RPEN) Fernley Chapter http://blackrockinstitute.org/2012/05/rpen_may/ http://blackrockinstitute.org/2012/05/rpen_may/#comments Sat, 05 May 2012 14:04:29 +0000 BRI http://blackrockinstitute.org/?p=722 Continue reading →]]> Retired Public Employees of Nevada (RPEN) - Fernley Chapter

Chapter Notes

The Fernley Chapter meets again May 10. Fallon resident Michon Mackedon is scheduled to speak about a book she has written called “Bombast: Spinning Atoms in the Desert”.

http://www.rpen.org/Chapter_Fernley.php

This chapter meets on the 2nd Thursday of every month at 1:00 p.m. at Fernley City Hall, located at 595 Silver Lace Blvd.

For more information, please contact Chapter President, Rosemarie Wheeler, at (775) 575-1293 or email her at rosemariewheeler82@yahoo.com.

 

 

]]> http://blackrockinstitute.org/2012/05/rpen_may/feed/ 0 Mackedon speaks at Yerington Lions Club May 8th http://blackrockinstitute.org/2012/05/mackdon_yerington_lions/ http://blackrockinstitute.org/2012/05/mackdon_yerington_lions/#comments Tue, 01 May 2012 14:09:13 +0000 BRI http://blackrockinstitute.org/?p=725 Michon Mackedon, Author of Bombast: Spinning Atoms in the Desert is scheduled to speak May 8th at the Yerington Lions Club.

Lions Club House
7 North West St.
Yerington NV 89447

Meetings
Every Tuesday 7pm

http://www.yeringtonlions.org/contact.html

]]> http://blackrockinstitute.org/2012/05/mackdon_yerington_lions/feed/ 0 Take a look inside Nevada Rock Art at photo-eye.com http://blackrockinstitute.org/2012/04/photoeye/ http://blackrockinstitute.org/2012/04/photoeye/#comments Thu, 19 Apr 2012 17:25:12 +0000 BRI http://blackrockinstitute.org/?p=537 Continue reading →]]> Nevada Rock Art contains rarely seen images that are themselves artifacts of fieldwork conducted throughout the back roads, valleys, summits, drainages, and mountain ridges of Nevada. From the northernmost wildlife refuge to the sun-blasted southern tip of creosote-bush country, the process of photographing is itself a testimonial to better than two decades of exploring and experiencing Nevada’s beguilingly diverse landscapes.

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]]> http://blackrockinstitute.org/2012/04/photoeye/feed/ 0 Black Rock (paperback) http://blackrockinstitute.org/2012/04/black-rock/ http://blackrockinstitute.org/2012/04/black-rock/#comments Wed, 18 Apr 2012 08:20:28 +0000 BRI http://blackrockinstitute.org/?p=373 Continue reading →]]>
The Black Rock is a desert realm the size of Delaware about one hundred miles north of Reno, Nevada.

Shaped by water, wind, geothermal activity, and human interaction since ancient times, the desolate, haunting landscape nonetheless teems with life in forms that have endured for millennia.

In a brilliant duet, a photographer and a geographer explore this eloquent, enigmatic landscape that has been the focus of study and contemplation by scientists, explorers, naturalists, overland sojourners, and artists.

Black Rock is available online from Museum of New Mexico Press or locally from  Black Rock Institute Press and select local retailers.

 

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Author, Michon Mackedon, presenting her Award winning, new book Bombast:  Spinning Atoms in the Desert (2010) at the Mathewson-IGT Knowledge Center, University of Nevada, Reno.

Bombast:  Spinning Atoms in the Desert is available online from Museum of New Mexico Press or locally from  Black Rock Institute Press and select local retailers.  Visit our Contact page for more information or to ask us a question.

Buy a copy today!  Available paper-bound or hard-bound.

Visit Michon’s website http://www.spinningatoms.com/

 

]]> http://blackrockinstitute.org/2012/04/339/feed/ 0 New Review of Bombast: Spinning Atoms in the Desert http://blackrockinstitute.org/2012/03/bombast_pasqualetti_review/ http://blackrockinstitute.org/2012/03/bombast_pasqualetti_review/#comments Fri, 09 Mar 2012 17:38:00 +0000 BRI http://blackrockinstitute.org/?p=707 Thank you, Martin J. Pasqualetti and the American Geographical Society for the wonderful review of BOMBAST: Spinning Atoms in the Desert in the Geographical Review journal. The book review is available online at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1931-0846.2012.00137.x/abstract
Courtesy of the U.S. Department of Energy

Buy a copy today!  Available paper-bound or hard-bound.

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