The Underground and Overground Railroad with Tamika Sanders

Mohave County Library District - Lake Havasu City Branch Community Rooms A/B 1770 McCulloch Blvd, Lake Havasu City, AZ, United States

Using storytelling, historical artifacts and songs, this presentation will depict the ingenuity and resiliency used by those involved in the Underground Railroad to help over 100,000 enslaved people escape to […]

FREE

Specters of the Past-Ghost Towns That Built Arizona with Jay Mark

San Tan Historical Society Museum 20425 S. Old Ellsworth Road, Queen Creek, AZ, United States

In addition to an entertaining, visual display of the communities, towns and settlements that contributed to the early growth of the state, this presentation also focuses on respect for these […]

FREE

Saviors and Saints on the Arizona Frontier with Jan Cleere

McFarland State Historic Park 24 W. Ruggles St, Florence, AZ, United States

Health care in early Arizona was hardly reliable and frequently nonexistent. Often, settlers were on their own when tragedy struck with women taking on the responsibility for the well-being of […]

FREE

Writers of the Purple Sage with Jim Turner

Superstition Mountain Museum 4087 N. Apache Trail, Apache Junction, AZ, United States

This presentation covers five Arizona novelists: Zane Grey spent his honeymoon at the Grand Canyon and went on to be one of the first and most famous Western writers of […]

FREE

Women’s Resilience and Survival in the Holocaust with Bjorn Krondorfer

Mesa Public Libraries - Main Branch - Saguaro Room --- 64 E. 1st St., Mesa, AZ, 85201 64 E. 1st Street, Mesa, AZ, United States

This talk will trace the lives of two women Holocaust survivors who both grew up in traditional Jewish families in Bedzin, Poland and later became residents of Arizona: Jane Lipski […]

FREE

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