Schedule for the Fifth Annual ISTS Small Town Symposium
at the Historic Fifth Street School, Las Vegas, Nevada, March 12-14, 2009

Fifth Street School

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SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

Thursday, March 12, 6pm
Opening Reception
UNLV Downtown Design Center, Room 170
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Tour: UNLV Downtown Design Center / Historic Fifth Street School renovation
Exhibition: Forgotten Places of Nevada, photographs by Randy Hale

Hale Photos

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Friday, March 13, 8:30am-10am
UNLV Downtown Design Center, Room 170
"Basin, Range, and a Sequence of Islands: The Small-Town Nevada You Never Knew"
Kevin Kemner

Friday, March 13, 10:30am-noon
Tour: The Neon Boneyard Signage Museum, and La Concha Motel Lobby Restoration

Neon Bone Yard

la Concha

Friday, March 13, 1pm-2:30pm
UNLV Downtown Design Center, Room 170
"Sex in the (Small) City: Nevada's Legal Brothels"
Barb Brents, Crystal Jackson

Friday, March 13, 3pm-4:30pm
UNLV Downtown Design Center, Room 170
"Non-Farm Rural Landowners"
Lee-Anne Milburn

Friday, March 13, 7pm
UNLV School of Architecture Auditorium
"Low-Impact Development and High-Impact Design:
Tools and Techniques for Sustainability in the 21st Century "

Lee-Anne Milburn
UNLV Landscape Architecture Coordinator

Friday, March 13, 8:30pm
Evening Reception: Las Vegas Villa

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Saturday, March 14, 8:30am
Site visits in Overton, Nevada and the Moapa Valley

Guided Tour: Michael Heizer's land art Double Negative
Host: Bob Tracy, Curator / Art Historian, UNLV

Double Negative

Optional Archaeological Tour: The Lost City at St. Thomas Cove

St Thomas

Saturday, March 14, 3pm
ISTS Business Meeting
Valley of Fire State Park

Saturday, March 14, 8pm
Closing Dinner and Walking Tour: Fremont Street Experience

Walking Tour

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click here to learn more about previous ISTS events
Fourth Annual ISTS Small Town Symposium held in and around St. Louis, Missouri
Third Annual ISTS Small Town Symposium held in College Park, Maryland
Second Annual ISTS Small Town Symposium held in Boulder City, Nevada
First Annual ISTS Small Town Symposium held in Fairfield, Iowa

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