Retired UNLV professor’s book about Blue Diamond laments vanishing way of life.
By Jack Bulavsky, Special to VIEW
Photo credit: Jerry Henkel
Evan Blythin has lived in Blue Diamond for 32 years. For a number of those years, he knew he would one day write a book about his rural home. That ambition was realized when Vanishing Village: The Struggle for Community in the New West hit bookstores this month.
Bythin, 67, a retired UNLV professor of communications studies, said the book is a universal story.
“The whole world has moved from rural sensitivities to more of an urban-industrial kind of sensitivity, and what I write about can be discussed in any community,” he said. “Blue Diamond has changed dramatically, but so has the rest of the world. I don’t long for the old days, but we need to keep an eye on what we’re losing.”
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