Gragg to discuss Vegas on radio panel
Posted by Peter Ehrhard
On Thursday, Oct. 3, Dr. Larry Gragg, Curators’ Teaching Professor and chair of history and political science at S&T, will speak on a Providence, R.I., panel about the history of Las Vegas. “1941: Betting on Hedonism” will discuss the opening of the El Rancho Vegas as the birth of the Las Vegas Strip. Gragg’s latest book, “Bright Light City: Las Vegas in Popular Culture,” was published in April.
The panel is part of a series called “Utopian/Distopian on Action Speaks,” a series of contemporary topic-driven panel discussions centered on underappreciated dates that changed America. The panels are recorded and aired on radio stations around the country and are available online at actionspeaksradio.org.
Posted by Peter Ehrhard
