Contributor Cal Freeman on Doop and the Inside Outlaws’
The Corridor Doop and the Inside Outlaws “Back in the summer of ’49, old Everett Belcher was runnin’ shine from the hills of Kentucky to the mills of Great … Continue reading
Congrats to this year’s Best of the Net nominees!
We wish you the best of luck in the selection process! Poetry Heat by Ellen Stone Slickwater and Sand by Ruth Foley Driving in Nebraska … Continue reading
Transportation Celebration — Corie Rosen on Dangerous Driving
Independence Pass Just before you reach Leadville, Colorado, a Victorian town with 11,000 feet of elevation and a population of less than 3,000, you reach a decision point in the … Continue reading
Transportation Celebration — Susanna Lang on Walking
Travelers I walk to walk: the act has its own value, and the words, if they happen to arrive, are in the nature of a gift . . . —Michael … Continue reading
Americana-Themed Podcast Newly Released
In the latest episode of Artifact Chat, a monthly podcast of curated intersections between America’s past and present, museum prose editor, Lindsey Griffin, sat down with Kristine Engel, curator of … Continue reading
Our Reading Series — Coming Soon!
We at the museum of americana are excited to collaborate with a number of our contributors to plan a new series of readings throughout the country. These readings will take place over the … Continue reading
Contributor Nick Fox Recieves Solas Award For Destination Travel
Congratulations to contributor, Nick Fox, whose nonfiction essay, “On the Trail of Jack London,” received a 2016 Solas Award for Destination Travel from Traveler’s Tales. “On the Trail of Jack … Continue reading
The Museum Hits Downtown LA for AWP 16 and a Reading at Wolf & Crane Bar
This year’s AWP conference in Los Angeles was the museum’s first, and we kicked it off with an offsite reading co-presented with our friends at Midwestern Gothic. Hosted by … Continue reading
the museum of americana at the AWP Conference
the museum of americana travels to AWP next week, and we’d love to connect with you there! Be sure to join us at Wolf & Crane Bar for A Midwestern Americana Reading hosted … Continue reading
Q & A With Issue 9 Contributor Nick Fox
In our continuing Q & A series, the museum of americana caught up with Nick Fox to chat about travel, his childhood reading habits, and how photography, memory, and the … Continue reading