The September display - a sample of the publications by or about past and present Silver City residents - were provided by the Silver City Volunteer Library. Publications on a broad range of topics by Erich Obermayr, Peter Laufer, Jim McCormick, Karen Wright, David Toll, Henry Park, Shelia Swan, Robert Elston, and others were included.
October Display on Historic Cemeteries of the Comstock: The October display will highlight the Comstock Cemetery Foundation and the historic cemeteries of the Comstock, including Silver City's carefully preserved burial grounds. According to the Comstock Cemetery Foundation website, "In their glory days, the [Comstock] cemeteries were a collection of Victorian parks spilling across the desert landscape in a green patchwork of flowers and shrubbery and neatly painted fences... [Today] the cemeteries are memorials to the laboring classes that toiled behind the machinery of industrialized mining."
November Display of historic found iron objects: This collection of old, handmade iron from early miners is presented by long time Silver City resident Chris Brown, who knows quite a bit about ironwork himself. Chris got his start with welding in Portland. For many years, his primary work was with commercial construction of banks, stores, etc, but he had a sideline in ornamental ironwork, designing and fabricating gates, staircases, windows, etc. His ornamental ironwork can be found both in commercial buildings, and in private residences (for instance a local ornamental metal staircase). His work can also be found in public sites, such as the gates to the historic Silver City cemetery.
December Display Showcases Past and Present Musicians of Silver City: In December and January, the Silver City Arts group will display a collection of album and CD covers and instruments to celebrate the music of present or past Silver City residents. Covers feature musicians Lynne Hughes, Tal Morris, Jake Wise, Daniel Yuhasz, Hammerstone, American Phlats, Darius Javaher, Will and Sheree Rose, Ukalocos, Betty Kaplowitz, Tommy Thomsen,the "Leftovers" youth band, and others.
About Silver City: By 1861, Silver City had at least a dozen stores, 4 hotels, 3 blacksmith shops, 2 butcher shops, and a post office, serving a population of more than 1,000 people. An 1864 mercantile guide for the Comstock region described Silver City as a place where "citizens display a refined taste...by the numerous gardens and other external and substantial improvements that they are constantly making...Silver City is fully represented by societies, organizations and social institutions; which for numbers and unity, would be creditable to the reputation of larger cities." Today, the town of about 200 residents is part of the region's National Historic Landmark and is recognized as an "Arts and Cultural Resources Production Center." The community includes a surprising number of Nevada's highly productive artists, musicians, photographers, writers, actors, artisans, and academics, and its historic buildings and sites and crystal clear views of the Sierras attract visiting plein air painters and photographers from across the nation. With an unusually strong volunteerism ethos, the town boasts a voluteer-run library, an organic community garden, frequent public events at the community center, a busy arts group, a historic preservation group, a resident artist program, a volunteer fire department, and an arts and science summer program that is free to youngsters in the northwestern Nevada region.
See the links below for more information about Silver City:
Silver City Arts
https://www.facebook.com/Silver-City-Arts-618872294885649
Resident Artist Program in Silver City
https://www.facebook.com/silvercitynevadaresidentartistprogram
Nevada 150 Exhibit Showcasing the work of Silver City artists, writers, researchers and artisans
https://www.facebook.com/Nevada-150-Art-Exhibit-of-Historic-Silver-City-Nevada-375973665900542
Silver City Resistance
http://www.sc-resistance.com/Site/Welcome.html
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