COMMEMORATE AMERICA’S 250TH ANNIVERSARY IN WYOMING!
Wyoming Public Media celebrates 250 years since the adoption of the Declaration of Independence in 1776. Join in on the year-long celebration of Wyoming’s rich history, arts, culture, and music. Listen to historical stories, exciting performances, educational activities, and more. Watch for featured Wyoming 250 programming aired on Wyoming Public Radio, Wyoming Sounds, and The Modern West podcasts. Listen to short summaries of Wyoming’s history with Archives on the Air.
Wyoming Public Media and the American Heritage Center partnered to produce Archives on the Air, which are minute-long windows into the past. Wyoming Public Media also works with the Buffalo Bill Center of the West to produce the Museum Minutes.
- Enjoy your journey through Wyoming’s history!
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McClelland “Mac” Barclay devoted his considerable artistic talent to the U.S. Navy where he became one of the artists sent out to record World War II on canvas. -
In the 1920s, Constantine Peter Arnold threw an annual winter picnic at the foot of the Snowy Range to celebrate his February birthday. His elaborate invitations promised guests either “snow or sunshine, only the fool weatherman knows which it will be”. -
Multi-talented Paul Newman was one of film’s most dominant male stars from the mid-1950s through to his retirement from acting in 2007. -
Marjorie Merriweather Post, heiress to the Post Cereals fortune, was a savvy businesswoman and a philanthropist. She built Mar-a-Lago, her Palm Beach, Florida estate in 1927. -
Roscoe Turner was a pilot who helped publicize and romanticize aviation during the 1920s and 1930s. He regularly broke air speed records and won multiple air speed trophies. -
Roscoe Turner was a pilot who helped publicize and romanticize aviation during the 1920s and 1930s. He regularly broke air speed records and won multiple air speed trophies. -
Near the end of World War II, the USS Queenfish torpedoed the Japanese Navy’s Awa Maru. The sinking of the Awa Maru, which was designated as a Red Cross aid ship, was decried by the Japanese as an “outrageous act of treachery.” -
Topic of the Week - Should we be afraid of Colorado 'zombie' rabbits? -
The Mess Kit newspaper of the American Expeditionary Forces gives a glimpse into the lives of the servicemen stationed in France following the end of World War I. -
2025 Wyoming’s History Through Listeners’ Eyes!
