In their second episode Thristen and Eric talk more about the people and events behind their sites.  Eric discusses the man who created the “University Family” sculpture in the first place while Thristen focuses more on the people and then story behind the Mathew Shepard Memorial Bench.  They discuss the research process they each went through and the trials and tribulations they had to experience.

Special Shoutouts:

• The Matthew Shepard Foundation: https://www.matthewshepard.org
• The American Heritage Center Archives: http://www.uwyo.edu/ahc/

Sources:

• Branstetter, Heather L. “A Mining Town Needs Brothels: Gossip and the Rhetoric of Sex Work in a Wild West Mining Community," Rhetoric Society Quarterly, vol. 46, no. 5, 2016, pp. 381-409.
• Coker, Calvin. "Harriet Tubman, Women on 20s, and Intersectionality: Public Memory and the Redesign of U.S. Currency," Southern Communication Journal, vol. 82, no. 4, 2017, pp. 239-249.
• Ladino, Jennifer. “Fears Made Manifest,” Memorials Matter: Emotion, Environment and Public Memory at American Historical Sites. University of Nevada Press. 2019, pp. 41-80.
• Powell, Malea. “Dreaming Charles Eastman: Cultural Memory, Autobiography, and Geography in Indiginous Rhetorical Histories. ” Beyond the Archives: Research as a Lived Process, Gesa E Kirsch and Liz Rohan, Eds. Southern Illinois University Press, 2008, pp. 115-127. 

More Info: 

• University of Wyoming English Department website: http://www.uwyo.edu/english/
• Music by Mr. Smith, “Be Cool” from the album Streamliner
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