Cheney pens "valentine" to old Casper

Reporter Jennifer Frey snagged a rare interview with Wyoming native Lynne Cheney and wrote about her new book in the Oct. 9 Washington Post, reprinted in today's Casper Star-Tribune. Lynne Cheney's book, entitled "Blue Skies, No Fences: A Memoir of Childhood and Family," was published by Threshold Editions, the Simon & Schuster imprint directed by Cheney family friend and conservative commentator Mary Matalin.

Here's an excerpt from the Post article:

What Lynne Cheney has written.... is an homage to her childhood, her husband's [V.P. Dick Cheney] childhood and the American West -- specifically Casper -- where they were raised. A place and a time she describes as "heaven for little girls" and "paradise for little boys."

"Is it nostalgia?" she said, balking a bit. "Nostalgia implies to me, a little bit, you've got your rose-colored glasses on at all times. And I certainly do mean this book to be a valentine to the place and time I grew up. But there are also just sort of facts you can look at, and I think the facts form a different pattern then than they do now."

Rumor has it that Lynne Cheney will be conducting a book signing at Casper College on Saturday, Oct. 20, at 2 p.m. Haven't heard any confirmation on that. Any of you wyomingarts readers have any details? If so, e-mail me. We'd like to get it on the calendar.