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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Henry Asa Coffeen was one of the founding fathers of Sheridan and played an influential role in the writing of the Wyoming constitution, which secured Wyoming women’s right to vote. -
Wyoming Public Media Photo Contest Voting -
Standard Oil of California started off selling kerosene in 1875 and eventually expanded its business to include gasoline, motor oils and aviation fuel. -
Topic of the Week - What are your thoughts on crossing private land to reach public lands? -
The Cheyenne based Hands in Harmony promoted awareness of the hearing impaired through their uniquely choreographed sign language performances. -
The inaugural flight carrying airmail occurred on May 15, 1918. President Woodrow Wilson witnessed the takeoff from the Washington D.C. polo grounds. The plane was destined for New York by way of Philadelphia. -
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.
