Sharon Oard Warner

Sharon Oard Warner

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Hawkmoths and Moonflowers: Facts of Nature

15 Octo­ber 2019 Last Sun­day, my hus­band and I ven­tured over to East Austin for brunch. As we walked down the side­walk to a great lit­tle place called Cenote–honest-to-god, the apple­sauce pan­cakes are one of the best things I’ve ever put in my mouth–I spot­ted a large moon­flower plant, and, then, even bet­ter, a hawk­moth caterpillar.

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Must-Read Novella in the Era of Trump

16 Jan­u­ary 2018 I will always remem­ber the cir­cum­stances:  I read Jerzy Kosin­s­ki‘s Being There at the Tides Book­store in Sausal­i­to, CA.  (I am sor­ry to report that the Tides is closed now. ) This would have been 1971, when I was nine­teen and liv­ing on my own in north­ern Cal­i­for­nia. I didn’t have the mon­ey to pur­chase the book. (I

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Teaching the Young the Value of the Past

27 Jan­u­ary 2019 At the D. H. Lawrence Ranch Ini­tia­tives, we are work­ing to impart the val­ue and impor­tance of the prop­er­ty we serve, not only to poten­tial donors, Uni­ver­si­ty staff and fac­ul­ty — but also to future gen­er­a­tions. On Fri­day, Sep­tem­ber 8th, 2017, a few days before Lawrence’s Sep­tem­ber 11th birth­day, Ranch care­tak­er Ricar­do Medina

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Dr. Virginia Hyde: an Appreciation

27 Jan­u­ary 2019 In Jan­u­ary of 2004, the D. H. Lawrence Ranch was added to the Nation­al Reg­is­ter of His­toric Places (NRHP) at the Nation­al lev­el, which means the prop­er­ty is eli­gi­ble for Nation­al Land­mark Sta­tus. This sin­gu­lar achieve­ment was made pos­si­ble by two scholars–Tina Fer­ris and Dr. Vir­ginia Hyde. On Jan­u­ary 2, 2019, we lost Dr. Hyde. As

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Georgia O’Keeffe and Fear

16 Sep­tem­ber 2016 “I’ve been absolute­ly ter­ri­fied every moment of my life and I’ve nev­er let it keep me from doing a sin­gle thing that I want­ed to do.” —Geor­gia O’Keeffe This week, the Geor­gia O’Keeffe Research Cen­ter is spon­sor­ing a forum on “Bal­anc­ing Authen­tic­i­ty, Ide­al­ism, and Expec­ta­tions at a Sin­­gle-Focus Insti­tu­tions.” This three-day event (Sept. 14–16)

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Georgia O’Keeffe’s “Starry, Starry Night”

7 Sep­tem­ber 2014 This past Wednes­day and Thurs­day, Nation­al Geo­graph­ic pho­tog­ra­phers vis­it­ed the D.H. Lawrence Ranch. Unlike most folks, who go to the Ranch dur­ing the day­light hours, these pho­tog­ra­phers trekked up to the Home­stead­er Cab­in after night­fall, when noc­tur­nal ani­mals emerge under the cov­er of dark­ness. The owls and coy­otes must have been watch­ing as the

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