UWyo Memory Lane

Welcome to Our Tour 

During the fall semester of 2025, our class conducted a study of the University of Wyoming as a site of public memory. While many wonderful memorials on campus honor former students, faculty, staff, and events, we wanted to recuperate sites of memory that are in the midst of either fading or being erased. 

To identify our sites of interest, each of us started paying attention to stories circulating around campus through our communities, through historic newspapers, and through existence of things such as buildings that were less familiar to us. We chose our sites independently (none were assigned). Once our choices were made, we used a variety of methods to learn more: requesting interviews with people close to the memories and their sites, searching historic news sources, visiting our friendly experts at the American Heritage Center, and conducting our own observations and place-making activities at the sites themselves. 

Over the course of about eight weeks, we developed in-depth public memory projects in various forms, including a podcast, websites, and traditional academic papers. Included in those projects was the development of the core memory story we thought was best to share about each of our sites. Those "anchor" stories are provided to you here through text, audio, photos, and links to more information.

We hope that by revisiting UWyo and learning about the people, communities, and events that have happened here over the past 140 years, you'll begin to imagine the wonderfully interesting layers of stories that form the "memoryscape" we love to call our university home.

Thank you for taking the tour!

Dr. Nancy Small and her Students:

Hilde, Lizzy, Nora, Hannah, Taylor, Payton, Iylie, Alyssa, Alexandria, 

Matthew, McCall, Sadie, Grant, Ashlynn, and Baily