Fri, Sep 26
|Oats Park Art Center
Author Reception: Jeanne Sharp Howerton
January 1, 1957, nine-year-old Jeanne Sharp sits down next to the wood stove, and by the light of a kerosene lamp, writes the first entry in her diary...–the beginning of a life-long quest to preserve and write down the history of Nevada she knows best.
Time & Location
Sep 26, 2025, 5:00 PM
Oats Park Art Center, 151 E Park St, Fallon, NV 89406, USA
About the event
Jeanne Sharp Howerton is a fourth generation Nevadan who grew up with her four sisters on the Blue Eagle Ranch in Railroad Valley, Nye County. Their great-grandparents came to Nevada in 1865–living in Belmont, Tybo, Hiko, and Pahranagat Valley. Jeanne graduated from the University of Nevada, Reno and for 30 years she taught gifted and talented elementary students. Since retiring, she has published nine books on histories of Railroad Valley, Tybo, Reveille, Pahranagat Valley, and Delamar (coming soon!). Fifty years after writing her childhood diary, in 2007 Jeanne published it as a book. Her talk will share childhood stories of life on a remote ranch, attending a one-room school, and hiding in the house when fallout clouds from atomic testing floated overhead. It is a story shared by many children who lived in rural Nevada.
The Churchill Arts Council Literary Series is presented in partnership with the Churchill Library Association