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2016 Lecture: Jenny Emery Davidson on Mary Hallock Foote
Thursday, November 3, 2016 at 6:30PM

The Sun Valley Center for the Arts, Ketchum, Idaho
PO Box 656
Sun Valley, ID 83353
Located on the intersection of Washington Street and 5th Street, Ketchum

Thu. November 3rd, 6:30 The Center, Ketchum

At a time when prominent artists and writers were inscribing the West with the triumphalist vision of manifest destiny, Mary Hallock Foote created work that pushes back against that narrative. Her articles, stories, and drawings earned the actual income that made it possible for her family to build a home in the Boise canyon, but they also, perhaps ironically, challenge us to think about homesteading in the West in unexpected ways.

Jenny Emery Davidson is the executive director of The Community Library in Ketchum. She holds a Ph.D. in American Studies from the University of Utah, and her scholarly interests have focused on the literature and history of the American West. She has taught literature at the university and community college levels, as well as at the Universidad of Guanajuato, where she served a Fulbright fellowship.

Lecture is part of the BIG IDEA project Idaho Stories.