Russell Bixby Oral History

• Main Authors: Bixby, Russell, Brown, Diana
• Format: Audio
• Language: English
• Published: Religious Studies Department, University of Kansas 2015
• Subjects: Neopaganism; Thistle Hill (Bonner Springs; Kan.); Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1808/18242

Oral histories created by University of Kansas students, staff and faculty as part of the Religion in Kansas Project are archived at http://hdl.handle.net/1808/12524 in KU ScholarWorks, the digital repository of the University of Kansas. Oral history interview with Russell Bixby conducted by Diana Brown at the Java Break coffee shop in Lawrence, Kansas, on June 29, 2014. Russell lives at “Thistle Hill,” a piece of rural property in Bonner Springs, Kansas, and is from San Bernardino, California. He has also lived in Colorado, and worked in Antarctica. He has an engineering degree from the University of California, Berkeley. This interview discusses Russell’s childhood, his engagement with Paganism, and his thoughts about the future of planet Earth. This interview was conducted for the Religion in Kansas Project as part of a summer fieldwork internship funded by the Friends of the Department of Religious Studies. Friends of the Department of Religious Studies