Art of the Internment Camps: Culture Behind Barbed Wire – Arivaca

Pima County Library - Caviglia-Arivaca Library 17050 W. Arivaca Road, Arivaca

President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s 1942 WWII Executive Order 9066 forced the removal of nearly 125,000 Japanese-American citizens from the west coast, incarcerating them in ten remote internment camps in seven […]

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The Ancient Hohokam Ballgame of Arizona – Buckeye

Buckeye Public Library - Downtown Branch 310 N. 6th Street, Buckeye, AZ, United States

The ancient Hohokam culture of Arizona constructed at least 200 ball courts more than 800 years ago. These oval depressions were likely used to play a ball game that originated […]

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Arizona Goes to the Moon – Sedona

Church of the Nazarene 55 Rojo Dr, Sedona

Arizona played a key role in preparing to send humans to the moon in the late 1960s/early 1970s. The Apollo astronauts themselves traveled to the Grand Canyon and volcanic fields […]

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Arizona’s First Meteorite Man: H H Nininger – Winslow

Winslow Visitor Center/Hubbell Trading Post 523 W 2nd St, Winslow, AZ, United States

Harvey Harlow Nininger was an American meteoriticist and educator who revived interest in the scientific study of meteorites in the 1930s and assembled one of the world’s largest personal collections. […]

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Life on the Lazy B as Lived by an American Cowboy and Rancher – Tucson

Mountain View Ballroom 38735 S. Mountain View Blvd,, Tucson, AZ, United States

In 1880, Alan Day’s grandfather homesteaded the Lazy B ranch.  This dusty dry tract of land produced a Supreme Court Justice, a lauded Arizona state senator, and a career rancher, […]

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John Wesley Powell:  Into the Great Unknown – Buckeye

Buckeye Community Center/Senior Center 201 E. Centre Avenue, Buckeye, AZ, United States

Millions of travelers visit the Grand Canyon each year, but just 150 years ago, this was still considered the “last blank spot on the map.” One man, a one-armed civil […]

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