About the Book
The Definitive Wyoming Ghost Town Book
Wyoming State Historical Society Book Award Winner
In the award-winning Voices at Twilight, a collection of historical stories and photographs, Lori Howe illuminates past and present Wyoming ghost towns. Towns like Old Sherman, once the highest railroad village in the world, is now inhabited only by a child's grave. Centennial, a former gold-rush town, is now home to a colorful, artistic population of 100.
Explore Piedmont's well-preserved remains including the historic stone beehive kilns of the Moses Byrne empire. Medicine Bow is home to the historic Virginian Hotel, named for Owen Wister and his novel, The Virginian.
"Many of the working inhabitants are commuters who prefer the solitude of this small, lovely community."
The towns featured in Voices at Twilight offer the reader a visual tour of twelve of the most interesting Wyoming ghost towns. Contained within this full-color book are travel directions, GPS coordinates, and tips for intrepid readers who wish to experience these unique towns and town sites for themselves.
Explore classic railroad ghost towns with this resource.
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About the Author :
Lori Howe is the author of Cloudshade: Poems of the High Plains (Satrugi Press, 2015), Voices at Twilight: A Poet's Guide to Wyoming Ghost Towns (Sastrugi Press, 2016), and Stories from Earth: Millennials, Literature, and Teaching Writing that Matters. Her poems, short fiction, and non-fiction appear in numerous journals, anthologies, and books such as The Meadow, Pilgrimage, Northern Lights, Red Hook, Open Window Review, Frontiers Magazine, and the Owen Wister Review. Author Lori Howe holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in English and Spanish, as well as an M.F.A. in poetry from the University of Wyoming. She is currently a doctoral candidate in Literacy Studies at the University of Wyoming, where she teaches in the College of Education, serves on the leadership team of the Wyoming Writing Project, and teaches creative writing/literacy workshops with underserved writers around the state. Her research on creative writing workshop pedagogy appears in journals such as the Journal of Lifelong Learning and Qualitative Inquiry. She is the editor in chief of Clerestory: Poems of the Mountain West (clerestorypoets.org), and has appeared as a guest poet on Wyoming Public Radio. Her current writing project is the novel, Heaven of Olives, set in Wyoming, New York City, and Andalusia, Spain. Visit Lori Howe's author website at: http: //lorihoweauthor.com/
Review :
"Fascinating. Howe's carefully documented accounts of these old towns' histories and present states of being are beautifully deepened by the photographs and her excellent, moving poems, haunting in their own right, bringing lost places and people back to vivid life on the page, in the mind. I didn't want it to end, and can only hope Lori Howe will do this again, and again." -Brad Watson, author of Aliens in the Prime of Their Lives and Miss Jane: A Novel "Lori Howe blends guide-book practicality with evocative poetry, photographs, and personal reflection to summon faded Wyo- ming towns existing on a blend of history and hope. From her offerings we glean that places can be both ghost and solid flesh, often simultaneously. " -Julianne Couch, author of The Small Town Midwest: Resilience and Hope in the Twenty-first Century Lori Howe's Voices at Twilight is an enchanting companion for those seeking a deeper understanding of the reasons and ways of the American frontier. From the beehive kilns of the "true ghost" Piedmont, to living museums like Centennial, " the wind's mad bride, shredding her garments into prayer flags", the prose will sweep you away on a site to site road trip under the big sky, across the vast abandon of the prairie. Having reached each long forgotten outpost, Howe's arresting poetry will hold you up at the edge of town, apprehended as a character in the story, standing half-lonely and half in love with "the Opal wind that shoves a hand in every pocket". -James Scott Smith, author of Water, Rocks, and Trees Lori Howe has captured Wyoming's history of great gain and great loss in words, images, and emotion. There are few pieces of literature that can bring back to life the past and this is a remarkable mix of history and poetry. I am so pleased she has written this book and I hope all Wyomingites relish its beauty and emotional qualities. I hope this book will encourage people to get off the beaten path and experience places from the past. Many of them are part of the Wyoming State Park, Historic Sites, and Trails program, are listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and are accessible to the public. -Mary Hopkins, historian
