Alan Simpson
The Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation is the recipient of another award. This time, the former Japanese-American concentration camp used during World War II, is being awarded the 2023 Traveler’s Choice award from Tripadvisor, the travel service and advice website. The award is given to sites rated in the top 10 percent of World Travel Destinations…
The Mineta-Simpson Institute at Heart Mountain has taken another step closer to completion with the awarding of a $149,646 grant from the National Park Service to help fund an exhibit dedicated to the lives and careers of Secretary Norman Mineta and Senator Alan Simpson. The grant, announced Wednesday, comes from the Japanese American Confinement Sites program,…
Aura Sunada Newlin, Interim Director for the Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation spoke about her family connection to Heart Mountain, what kind of exhibits are in the Interpretive Center and the new Mineta – Simpson Institute which broke ground in July.
President Joe Biden has announced he will award the first Presidential Medal of Freedom of his presidency to former U.S. senator and lifelong Cody resident Al Simpson. First created by President J.F. Kennedy in 1963, the Presidential Medal of Freedom is presented to civilians who are considered to have made “especially meritorious contributions to the…
A scheduled reading and book signing event at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West, set for June 25th from 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m., has been postponed. The event, a reading of The History of Cody’s Volunteer Fire Departments by Park County Fire Protection District #2, was to feature special guest Alan K. Simpson,…
Former US Senator and Cody resident Alan Simpson is recovering in a Denver hospital after suffering a minor stroke Monday night. Collin Simpson, Al’s son, said his father was taken to Cody Regional Health. A Tuesday morning CT scan determined the source of the stroke was a left carotid artery that was blocked. From Cody,…
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