2025 SPE Annual Conference: Adaptations
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Saturday, September 22 - 9:30AM to 10:00AM
We Sagebrush Folks is a photographic project inspired by the book of the same title, by Annie Pike Greenwood detailing her time spent in an early Southern Idaho farming community. The Greenwoods migrated to Idaho because of the allure of the Carey Act of 1894, a land grant program to encourage settlement of federally owned arid lands. The Carey Act thrived on promotional propaganda, suggesting that fields of sagebrush could magically be transformed into irrigated Edens; it was a farmer's gold rush—enticing dreamers to move to wilderness regions. Greenwood's book explores these dreams of cultivation, the hope of prosperity, and the difficult reality of trying to harness a landscape to suit the needs of the farmer. Her book is an eclectic personal journey, calling on Greenwood's experiences as a mother, wife, and educator. To illustrate her journey, one hundred years later, I've been retracing her steps creating a photographic survey of the Snake River Plain where we sagebrush folks are still trying to turn the desert into the promised-land.
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