Will Walkey
Contributing JournalistWill Walkey is a contributing journalist and former reporter for Wyoming Public Radio. Through 2023, Will was WPR's regional reporter with the Mountain West News Bureau. He first arrived in Wyoming in 2020, where he covered Teton County for KHOL 89.1 FM in Jackson. His work has aired on NPR and numerous member stations throughout the Rockies, and his story on elk feedgrounds in Western Wyoming won a regional Murrow award in 2021.
When he's not chasing stories, you can find Will fly fishing, backpacking, or skiing. During downtimes, he can be found listening to podcasts or a good album.
Reach out with tips at wwalkey@uwyo.edu
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Groundbreaking science fiction writer Octavia Butler wrote her first 10 novels on a powder blue manual typewriter, now an artifact in the Smithsonian Institution's collection. -
Some were four times the size of today's great whites. -
Long before interstates stitched the country together, there was “The Mother Road.” Route 66 crossed through eight states from Chicago to Santa Monica, Calif. -
The 1973 activist folk album "A Grain of Sand" is widely recognized as one of the first and most influential albums of Asian American music. -
John Cephas and Phil Wiggins were modern ambassadors of a fingerpicking regional acoustic blues style developed mainly in Virginia and the Carolinas: the Piedmont blues. -
The Smithsonian Institution has a new exhibit documenting the history of salsa music in the U.S. -
A new exhibition at the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian showcases the work of the late minimalist artist Truman Lowe. -
Farmers' Bulletins were national weather reports compiled each evening in Washington, D.C., and sent to thousands of communities. -
The Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History has a new exhibit tracing the animal's importance in American history. -
In 1939 African American aviator Chauncey Spencer and fellow Black pilot Dale White flew in a fragile biplane from Chicago to Washington, D.C. -
Lowriders have long turned city streets into moving works of art. Now, a new exhibit at the Smithsonian Institution is tracing the history of lowriding from its roots in Chicano communities to its influence on art and activism. -
When the Ford Model T first hit the road in the early 20th century, it didn’t just change how Americans got around. It transformed the country itself.
