Town Crier Report/Los Altos Town Crier
The Los Altos History Museum is scheduled to open a companion exhibition to its outdoor display on Wallace Stegner, this time focusing on the Pulitzer Prize-winning author’s legacy in the creative writing world, and the Los Altos area in particular.
Co-produced by The Bill Lane Center for the American West at Stanford University, “A Society to Match Its Scenery: Wallace Stegner’s Local Legacy” is set to open in the J. Gilbert Smith House Nov. 10 and run through March 5.
The exhibition will feature photographs of Stegner during the time he lived in Los Altos Hills, a collection of first editions and autographed copies of his books, and a reading nook.
The museum’s outdoor exhibition, “Wallace Stegner: A Path to Conservation,” concentrates on Stegner’s…cont.
Walter Stegner in his study.
