indy Coletti, founder of Sun West Custom Homes, began her career designing custom homes in Florida and Colorado before moving to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1989. Coletti founded El Rancho West Homes in Florida in 1976 before moving to Colorado Springs, Colorado in the early 1980s. Her son, Dan Coletti, the principal designer, took over operations of Sun West Custom Homes in 2001 after her retirement. Over the years Coletti and Sun West Custom Homes have won a number of achievement awards and have been highlighted in construction and architecture magazines.

Dorothy Casner Evans arrived in Tonopah, Nevada in 1938. She started working for her brother-in-law, Dave Roberts, as a bookkeeper at his freighting and house-moving business (Dave is the husband of Ellen Roberts, Dorothy's sister). She later started driving trucks and moving houses for the company. In 1950, Evans left the house-moving business and began working at the Tonopah Club. She left the Tonopah Club in 1962 to take a job as deputy sheriff in Mercury, Nevada. Dorothy Casner Evans died on November 24, 1993.

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Alfred J. O'Donnell was born November 8, 1922 in Boston, Massachusettes. He worked as a technician, opening the laboratory of EG&G, formally known as Edgerton, Germeshausen, and Grier, Inc., in Las Vegas, Nevada in support of the Nevada Test Site. He was part of a four-man party responsible for final checks and connections of 1968 nuclear and hydrogen bombs. He died on April 9, 2015.

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Calvin Anthony Shields was a Las Vegas, Nevada musician who played the trumpet and drums. He was born on April 28, 1924 in Jacksonville, Florida. Shields played with the Billy Williams Quartet in countries around the world, and later formed "The Calvin Shields All-Star Band" and played nightly at the Carver House, located in Westside Las Vegas. He also played in clubs and casinos in Las Vegas including the Flamingo Hotel and Casino, the Sahara Hotel and Casino, the Landmark Hotel and Casino, and the Hacienda Resort Hotel and Casino.

Dr. John S. Wright was born in Enid, Oklahoma to Ethel and Thomas Clayton Wright on May 1, 1910. He spent his youth in Newton, Illinois, and received bachelor’s and master’s degrees in history from the University of Illinois. He married Lucille Wilson in 1939. During World War II, he served in the United States Army He earned his doctorate from the University of Chicago. He moved to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1956 to teach at Nevada Southern University, now known as the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

Sara Ortiz is the program and festival director of The Believer magazine and Black Mountain Institute. She was born and raised in Austin, Texas where her Salvadoran parents settled, though led a “nomadic” life within Austin. Her mother was a housekeeper and her father worked several jobs to care for their family. Within that loving family, Sara cultivated a love of storytelling from an early age.