The award-winning annual Trailing of the Sheep event is coming to Ketchum for its 23rd year October 9 to 13. It is a five-day festival including activities such as classes and workshops, dancing, ...

The Comforts of Home: A Basque Sheep Camp is on display now through August 10 at the Sparks Museum and Cultural Center located at 814 Victorian Avenue in Sparks. The exhibit features materials from ...

Strange things are afoot in the Basque country, a region spanning parts of France and Spain with an age-old cheese-making tradition. National identity is invoked; politicians, unions, and ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Smithsonian researchers Mary S. Linn and Anne Pedersen pose with Eneko Goiburu in his family’s homestead. Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives Editor’s ...

Traveling hundreds of miles through Nevada’s high desert and Ruby Mountains more than a half century ago, a young immigrant from the Basque region of Spain tended his sheep and rarely ventured into a ...

Henry Etcheverry whistled, and a row of sheep dashed down a fenced dirt path. On the other end, two men branded the freshly sheared animals. It was late morning on St. Patrick’s Day, exactly 13 years ...

I would have guessed that I've been enjoying P'tit Basque, the French sheep's milk cheese, for much longer than a decade, but my guess would be wrong. The cheese debuted only in 1997, created by the ...

Maybe you've been to Sparks, Nev., to John Ascuaga's Nugget Casino. He's been there for nearly 50 years. We were interviewing Mr. Ascuaga for our story "Liberace and The Trinidad Tripoli Steelband" ...