{"id":133952,"date":"2017-08-31T15:00:34","date_gmt":"2017-08-31T22:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/?post_type=product&p=133952"},"modified":"2025-12-21T08:35:26","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T16:35:26","slug":"back-to-where-you-once-belonged","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/products\/back-to-where-you-once-belonged\/","title":{"rendered":"Back to Where You Once Belonged"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
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In a sweeping anthology that moves from the ancient makers of Southern Nevada\u2019s petroglyphs and occupants of the county morgue to denizens of contemporary street life, ten Las Vegas essayists examine the many ways our pasts shape our present\u2014and, possibly, our future.<\/p>\n

Set in and around a city with its own complex relationship to history, these eclectic narratives take you in surprising directions. Listen in as a photography model ponders the psychology of the men who hire her to recreate red-letter moments from their pasts. Follow the rollicking account of a young historian\u2019s baptism in early-\u201980s journalism. Watch as a writer bottoms out and gets back up.<\/p>\n

By indelibly joining the timeless\u2014family, race, trauma, love, death\u2014with the personal, the essays in this collection, the eighth volume in the Las Vegas Writes series, present a singular view of a city that\u2019s forever negotiating the turbulent passage between then and now.<\/p>\n

Click to read Back to Where You Once Belonged<\/u><\/strong><\/a>\u00a0Table of Contents and an excerpt.<\/p>\n

Las Vegas Writes is a program of Nevada Humanities, published by Huntington Press, with support from the Las Vegas-Clark County Library District,\u00a0and part of the Las Vegas Book Festival. Las Vegas Writes anthology\u00a0is an annual collection of writings by local authors focused on a theme connected to Las Vegas.\u00a0 For more information visit:\u00a0https:\/\/www.nevadahumanities.org\/las-vegas-writes<\/a><\/p>\n

About The Author<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
A forty-year Southern Nevadan, Scott Dickensheets\u00a0<\/strong>is the deputy editor of Nevada Public Radio\u2019s Desert Companion magazine. Before that he served as editor in chief of Las Vegas CityLife and the Las Vegas Weekly, was managing editor of Las Vegas Life magazine, and held various positions at the Las Vegas Sun, including assistant city editor, assistant features editor, and columnist. He\u2019s edited four previous anthologies of fiction and essays in the Las Vegas Writes series: Fade, Sag, Crumble; Wish You Were Here; Getting Better All the Time; and Lost & Found in Las Vegas. His writing has also appeared in Vegas magazine and the Red Rock Review.<\/p>\n

As the senior director of content for the Mob Museum in Las Vegas, Geoff Schumacher<\/strong>\u00a0creates exhibits, acquires artifacts, develops educational programs, and serves as a historical resource for media outlets. Before joining the museum in 2014, Schumacher was a journalist for 25 years. He was a reporter and city editor for the Las Vegas Sun, editor of Las Vegas CityLife and the Las Vegas Mercury, and director of community publications and a columnist for the Las Vegas Review-Journal. He culminated his newspaper career as publisher of the Ames (Iowa) Tribune. He is the author of Sun, Sin & Suburbia: The History of Modern Las Vegas and Howard Hughes: Power, Paranoia & Palace Intrigue. He edited Nevada: 150 Years in the Silver State and three editions of the Las Vegas Writes book series.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This eighth volume in\u00a0the Las Vegas Writes series presents joining the timeless\u2014with the personal\u2014negotiating the passage between then and now.\u00a0(Price includes shipping to U.S. addresses only.)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":309658,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"product_cat":[539,1918,378],"product_tag":[149,157,160,155,233,489],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/133952"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133952"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/309658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=133952"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=133952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}