Healing Las Vegas: The Las Vegas Community Healing Garden in response to the 1 October tragedy
Editat de Stefani Evans, Donna A McAleeren Limba Engleză Hardback – 30 sep 2019 – vârsta ani
On Sunday, October 1, 2017, a gunman opened fire from thirty-two floors above a crowd of concertgoers at the Route 91 Harvest Festival on the Las Vegas Strip. The event left fifty-eight people killed, more than 860 injured, and thousands psychologically wounded. To date, this was the deadliest mass shooting in the United States in the last seventy years. Despite the chaos and terror, first responders, concert-goers, and passersby aided victims and survivors. Nearby businesses, hotels, and the university provided safety and services. Medical personnel rushed to area hospitals. And as the scope of the tragedy unfolded, the people of Las Vegas flooded blood donation centers and offered food, water, comfort, and care. And they created a garden—The Las Vegas Community Healing Garden.
The story of the garden unfolds through photographs and the words of survivors, first responders, family members, medical professionals, counselors, and members of the community. In only a matter of days, volunteers and local businesses transformed a vacant downtown lot into a serene urban oasis. Families and friends of those lost in the tragedy soon adopted each of the fifty-eight trees planted in honor of their loved ones, and visitors left behind colorful mementos, including painted rocks, photographs, and ornaments, as well as words of encouragement, love, loss, and strength.
In the aftermath of 1 October, an often misunderstood city revealed its soul under the most heartbreaking of circumstances. The inspirational voices and stories from a community touched by tragedy provide comfort and encouragement. And the organic response to the unthinkable is a testament to how one community came together at its darkest hour, chose hope over despair, unity over hate.
The story of the garden unfolds through photographs and the words of survivors, first responders, family members, medical professionals, counselors, and members of the community. In only a matter of days, volunteers and local businesses transformed a vacant downtown lot into a serene urban oasis. Families and friends of those lost in the tragedy soon adopted each of the fifty-eight trees planted in honor of their loved ones, and visitors left behind colorful mementos, including painted rocks, photographs, and ornaments, as well as words of encouragement, love, loss, and strength.
In the aftermath of 1 October, an often misunderstood city revealed its soul under the most heartbreaking of circumstances. The inspirational voices and stories from a community touched by tragedy provide comfort and encouragement. And the organic response to the unthinkable is a testament to how one community came together at its darkest hour, chose hope over despair, unity over hate.
Preț: 193.04 lei
Nou
Puncte Express: 290
Preț estimativ în valută:
36.96€ • 38.41$ • 30.64£
36.96€ • 38.41$ • 30.64£
Carte indisponibilă temporar
Doresc să fiu notificat când acest titlu va fi disponibil:
Se trimite...
Preluare comenzi: 021 569.72.76
Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781948908474
ISBN-10: 1948908476
Pagini: 104
Ilustrații: 150 color photos
Dimensiuni: 279 x 216 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.66 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: University of Nevada Press
Colecția University of Nevada Press
ISBN-10: 1948908476
Pagini: 104
Ilustrații: 150 color photos
Dimensiuni: 279 x 216 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.66 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: University of Nevada Press
Colecția University of Nevada Press
Recenzii
"It is an embrace meant to renew our energies and replenish our soul. It is the type of clasp that Las Vegas is not known for, yet, as this book showcases, our city offers it in spades."
—Witness Magazine
—Witness Magazine
Notă biografică
Healing Las Vegas is a collaboration between University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Get Outdoors Nevada as well as the many who survived the 1 October tragedy
Stefani Evans, of Las Vegas, Nevada, is a Ph.D. candidate in the History of the North American West at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV). She is project manager for the Building Las Vegas oral history project at the Oral History Research Center at UNLV University Libraries, 2016—present, and is the Nevada delegate on the board of the Southwest Oral History Association. A former elementary school teacher, she holds a bachelor’s degree in English and master’s degrees in Educational Administration and U.S. History.
Donna McAleer’s career in publications started more than 40 years ago as an editorial assistant at the RAND Corporation. She soon developed expertise in corporate public relations and later specialized in publications management at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, where she wrote and edited university publications for more than 30 years. She also managed UNLV’s printing and design operations. McAleer earned her bachelor and master’s degrees in English at Loyola Marymount University. She received a Master of Arts degree in Rhetoric, Linguistics, and Literature from the University of Southern California and has taught English at Loyola Marymount, USC, UNLV, and the College of Southern Nevada.
Stefani Evans, of Las Vegas, Nevada, is a Ph.D. candidate in the History of the North American West at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV). She is project manager for the Building Las Vegas oral history project at the Oral History Research Center at UNLV University Libraries, 2016—present, and is the Nevada delegate on the board of the Southwest Oral History Association. A former elementary school teacher, she holds a bachelor’s degree in English and master’s degrees in Educational Administration and U.S. History.
Donna McAleer’s career in publications started more than 40 years ago as an editorial assistant at the RAND Corporation. She soon developed expertise in corporate public relations and later specialized in publications management at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, where she wrote and edited university publications for more than 30 years. She also managed UNLV’s printing and design operations. McAleer earned her bachelor and master’s degrees in English at Loyola Marymount University. She received a Master of Arts degree in Rhetoric, Linguistics, and Literature from the University of Southern California and has taught English at Loyola Marymount, USC, UNLV, and the College of Southern Nevada.
Extras
Love
Love is a verb, a word of action. Las Vegans demonstrated love by taking strangers
to hospitals; sheltering guests they didn’t know; giving blood; sharing blankets,
water, pizzas, and cookies; making telephone calls to report good and bad
news, and hugging people without introduction. Friendships formed and the
city created a Healing Garden in less than 5 days only to be followed by a Resiliency
Center within a few more days.
Love is a healing balm that flowed over the city. Las Vegans forgot about
themselves and made the wants and needs of strangers the supreme goal. No
longer transient, we met neighbors for the first time and then united to help
visitors. We paid it forward without thinking about what we would receive in
return. The giving became paramount.
Love uplifts the consciousness of all of humanity. When visitors and volunteers
walk into the Healing Garden the name of the place is made manifest.
Healing is possible.
Love is commitment. Las Vegas worked passionately to nurture the world.
Our client base—now our friendship base—is truly global. We all collaborated
to make the world a better place for everyone. For a time, there was no “us” and
“them.” There was just us—all of us as one.
Love is blind, without judgment. After 1 October, Las Vegans reached out to
the next place of tragedy. Parents, police officers, coroners, doctors, and siblings
formed media outreach networks to help the next city, and the next. We learned
to love and give and pay it forward.
Love is strong. It lifts, cradles, and nurtures. Love is Vegas Strong.
—Claytee White, Director, Oral History Research Center, UNLV Libraries
Love is a verb, a word of action. Las Vegans demonstrated love by taking strangers
to hospitals; sheltering guests they didn’t know; giving blood; sharing blankets,
water, pizzas, and cookies; making telephone calls to report good and bad
news, and hugging people without introduction. Friendships formed and the
city created a Healing Garden in less than 5 days only to be followed by a Resiliency
Center within a few more days.
Love is a healing balm that flowed over the city. Las Vegans forgot about
themselves and made the wants and needs of strangers the supreme goal. No
longer transient, we met neighbors for the first time and then united to help
visitors. We paid it forward without thinking about what we would receive in
return. The giving became paramount.
Love uplifts the consciousness of all of humanity. When visitors and volunteers
walk into the Healing Garden the name of the place is made manifest.
Healing is possible.
Love is commitment. Las Vegas worked passionately to nurture the world.
Our client base—now our friendship base—is truly global. We all collaborated
to make the world a better place for everyone. For a time, there was no “us” and
“them.” There was just us—all of us as one.
Love is blind, without judgment. After 1 October, Las Vegans reached out to
the next place of tragedy. Parents, police officers, coroners, doctors, and siblings
formed media outreach networks to help the next city, and the next. We learned
to love and give and pay it forward.
Love is strong. It lifts, cradles, and nurtures. Love is Vegas Strong.
—Claytee White, Director, Oral History Research Center, UNLV Libraries
Cuprins
Table of Contents
Foreword
October 1, 2017
How the Garden Came to Be
Planting Hope
Planting Love
Planting Joy
Planting Life
Planting Peace
Afterword
Acknowledgments
Foreword
October 1, 2017
How the Garden Came to Be
Planting Hope
Planting Love
Planting Joy
Planting Life
Planting Peace
Afterword
Acknowledgments
Descriere
The story of the Las Vegas Community Healing Garden as told through photographs and the words of survivors, first responders, family members, medical professionals, counselors, and members of the community.