In regard to last week’s article “Adams’ photography highlights nature’s finest,” George Eastman died in 1932 and Ansel Adams was commissioned to take photographs for the University in 1952.



Ansel Adams

There were a bunch of labs that smelled of the strange chemicals. There were squirrel mechs being built. There were thousands of squirrels, big and small, scurrying everywhere. Read More

Ansel Adams

We teach the Dust Bowl as a cautionary tale. In every American history class, we learn how farmers in the 1920s and 1930s tore up millions of acres of native grassland across the Great Plains to plant wheat, how the deep-rooted prairie grasses that held the soil and trapped moisture were replaced by shallow crops and bare fields, and, when drought came in 1930, how the exposed topsoil turned to dust. Read More

Ansel Adams

I pray Adam Silver does whatever he can to choose the most talented and prepared dunkers, and give players the time they need to put on a creative show. Read More