Listening to America aims to “light out for the territories,” traveling less visited byways and taking time to see this immense, extraordinary country with fresh eyes while listening to the many voices of America’s past, present, and future.
We invite you to join us on this journey.
“Once a journey is designed, equipped, and put in process, a new factor enters and takes over. A trip, a safari, an exploration, is an entity, different from all other journeys. It has personality, temperament, individuality, uniqueness. A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.”
“Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night?”
Jack Kerouac
“We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.”
T.S. Eliot
“Of the gladdest moments in human life, methinks, is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands. Shaking off with one mighty effort the fetters of Habit, the leaden weight of Routine, the cloak of many Cares and the slavery of Hope, one feels once more happy. The blood flows with the fast circulation of childhood. . . . A journey, in fact, appeals to the Imagination, to Memory, to Hope—the three sister Graces of our moral being.”
Richard Francis Burton
April 3, 2025: Moab Museum Annual Gala 2025: Clay Jenkinson as John Wesley Powell
Moab, Utah — THIS EVENT IS SOLD OUT
April 4, 2025: Moab Museum Event: Oppenheimer at Star Hall
Moab, Utah — THIS EVENT IS SOLD OUT
April 14, 2025: Smithsonian Associates: How to Read a Poem
Zoom/Online
April 15, 2025: Parker: The 10 Greatest Photographs of All Time
Zoom/Online
July 20–29, 2025: Lewis & Clark Cultural Tour
September 21-27, 2025: Tour: Steinbeck’s California
January 11-16, 2026: Winter Retreat: The Novels of Cormac McCarthy
January 18-23, 2026: Winter Retreat: The West of Thomas Jefferson
COMING SOON!
Europe: Fall 2025
Jefferson’s France: 2026