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JP Cavigelli
JP Cavigelli has been Prep Lab Manager and Field Trip Organizer and Collections Manager at the Tate Geological Museum at Casper College since 2004. He has been in charge of many field outings and the preparation of many fossil vertebrates from a mammoth and a T rex to micro-mammal teeth. Before this he spent two years as Collections Manager at the University of Wyoming. JP has also been doing freelance fossil preparation in his private lab for private collectors and academic paleontologists. He has had the good fortune of having been invited to join paleontological expeditions to Mongolia, Niger, Tanzania, Alaska and North Dakota. When he is not involved with fossils JP enjoys birdwatching, traveling, and hanging out with his supercalifragilisticexpialidoc
Zachary Pullen
Zachary Pullen lives in Casper, Wyoming with his wife Renate while his son Hudson attends the University of Montana. His picture-book illustrations have won awards and garnered starred reviews. He has been honored several times with acceptance into the prestigious Society of Illustrators juried shows and the Communication Arts: Illustration Annual, best in current illustration. His titles include: The Toughest Cowboy or How the Wild West was Tamed, Friday My Radio Flyer Flew, Alfred Nobel: The Man Behind the Peace Prize, S is for Story: A Writers Alphabet, Finn McCool and the Great Fish and his latest publication, A Home for Steamboat.
Geoff and Rebecca Hunt
Geoff and Rebecca Hunt are retired history professors who specialize in the cultures of the American West. This is Geoff’s second talk for the festival, and Rebecca’s fourth.
Hanz Olson
Hanz Olson has served as a liaison librarian to the Casper College School of Arts and Humanities and as Western History Center archivist since July 1, 2021. Born and raised in Casper, he went on to earn his Master’s in Library and Information Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.