Cody Culture Club: Common Ground

Name: Cody Culture Club: Common Ground
Start: 2025-04-10T17:30:00-06:00
End: 2025-04-10T19:30:00-06:00
Location: Heart Mountain Interpretive Center

April 10 @ 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm MDT

Heart Mountain Interpretive Center with Mineta-Simpson Institute.

Common Ground

At Mineta-Simpson Institute, Heart Mountain Interpretive Center
1539 Road 19, between Cody and Powell

April 10, 2025
5:30–7:30 p.m.

Join us on select Thursdays January through April for Cody Culture Club. You’ll enjoy appetizers and cash bar at every program. If you love Cody, you’re part of the Club! Tickets for individual programs are $25 each, with discounts available with our package deal; details and online ticketing at centerofthewest.org/codycultureclub.

Our April 10 program takes place at the recently opened Mineta-Simpson Institute (MSI) at the Heart Mountain Interpretive Center. Rebecca McKinley, Deputy Director of Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation, explores the Boy Scout meeting of Secretary Norm Mineta and Senator Al Simpson and celebrate their legacy of empathy, courage, and cooperation. She delves into the vision and spirit of the MSI and introduce the audience to one of our most recent projects of cross-cultural collaboration between the Japanese American and the Apsáalooke (Crow) people. Enjoy a short film exploring this project and a native drumming performance by Johnny Tim Yellowtail (Apsáalooke), Heart Mountain’s Historic Site Caretaker.

Mineta-Simpson Institute building. — Mineta-Simpson Institute wing of Heart Mountain Interpretive Center.

About out speaker

Rebecca McKinley joined the Heart Mountain’s leadership in May 2023 as the Deputy Director. She brings a wealth of museum, collections, leadership, and development experience supplemented by an academic background in anthropology and bioarchaeology. She has worked for nearly a decade in Wyoming museums including; Special Events Coordinator and Donor Advisor at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West in Cody; Curator and then Interim Executive Director of the Washakie Museum & Cultural Center in Worland, Wyoming; and Collections Intern for the Meeteetse Museums in Meeteetse, Wyoming.

Rebecca was honored to be the project director for the newly opened exhibit on the lives and friendship of Secretary Norm Mineta and Senator Al Simpson.