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History Alive! The Explorations of George Bird Grinnell, The Father of Glacier National Park

Arizona Humanities 1242 N. Central Ave., Phoenix, AZ, United States

The great West that George Bird Grinnell first encountered in 1870 as a 21-year old man was shortly to disappear before his eyes. Nobody was quicker to sense the desecration or was more eloquent in crusading against the poachers, the hidehunters, and the disengaged U.S. Congress than George Bird Grinnell, the “Father of American Conservation.” Grinnell […]

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History Alive! – Arizona’s Territorial Historian, Poet, and Activist Sharlot Hall

Arizona Humanities 1242 N. Central Ave., Phoenix, AZ, United States

Sharlot Mabridth Hall was an unusual woman for her time: a largely self-educated but highly literate child of the frontier. Born October 27, 1870, she traveled with her family from Kansas to the Arizona Territory in 1882. Her impressions of this journey remained with her all of her life. She loved ideas and the written […]

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Raise the Roof – Film Screening & Discussion

Cutler-Plotkin Jewish Heritage Center 122 E Culver St., Phoenix, AZ, United States

Artists Rick and Linda Brown are not Jewish and not Polish, and yet they set out to rebuild Gwozdziec, one of the magnificent 18th Century wooden synagogues of Poland, the last of which were destroyed by the Nazis in World War II.  Their vision inspires hundreds of people to join them.  Using their hands, old tools, and techniques, […]

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Archaeology Café (Phoenix): The Relationships among Social Interaction, Economics, and Culture

Macayo's Central 4001 N. Central Avenue, Phoenix, AZ, United States

On March 15, 2016, Matthew Peeples (Arizona State University) will present “The Relationships among Social Interaction, Economics, and Culture.” From Matt: The work I will present represents the initial results of a large and collaborative project involving Archaeology Southwest, the University of Arizona, and Arizona State University. It is focused on using concepts from contemporary […]

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Roy Orbison: One of the Lonely Ones U.S. Film Premiere

Harkins Theatres - Tempe Marketplace 16 2000 East Rio Salado Parkway #1160, Tempe, AZ, United States

U.S. film premiere with acclaimed documentary filmmaker Jeremy Marre! Uncover the man behind the shades and meet iconic Texas-born balladeer Roy Orbison through his own words. Join us for the United States film premiere of this one-hour documentary that casts new light on the triumphs and tragedies that beset Orbison's career. Watch unseen performances, home-movies […]

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Veterans Heritage Project – Book Signing & Reception Event

Arizona State University - West Camps 4701 W. Thunderbird Rd., Glendale, AZ, United States

CONNECTING STUDENTS WITH VETERANS Reception & Book Signing Phoenix Edition 1 Sunday, April 10, 2016 3:00 PM—6:00 PM Arizona State University, West Campus 4701 West Thunderbird Road Glendale, Arizona 85306 Join us for the debut of Since You Asked XII: A Salute to the Coast Guard Keynote Speaker Admiral Vern Clark (Ret.) Former Chief of Naval Operations […]

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Journey to Justice – Film Screening & Discussion

Cutler-Plotkin Jewish Heritage Center 122 E Culver St., Phoenix, AZ, United States

Journey to Justice tells the story of Howard Triest, a German Jew who fled Nazi Germany in 1939, when he was 16 years old, and returned as a victorious American soldier in 1945.  He then served as an interpreter at the Nuremberg Tribunal, enabling him to come face-to-face with imprisoned Nazi officials who were co-responsible […]

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‘The Stories We Tell’ Opera – Preview Workshop

Heard Museum 2301 N. Central Ave., Phoenix, AZ, United States

From the Heard Museum website: "The result of a collaboration between the Heard Museum, the Grand Canyon Music Festival and the Arizona Opera, “The Stories We Tell” will debut at the Heard later this spring. “The Stories We Tell” consists of “micro-operas” composed by five Native students during workshops at Arizona Opera. This is a […]

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Harvey Girls Documentary – Heard Museum

Heard Museum 2301 N. Central Ave., Phoenix, AZ, United States

Explore the Harvey Girls Documentary, New Interviews and Discussion Program at the Heard Museum, April 17, 1:30 PM in the Steele Auditorium Remember the Harvey Girls? They were the more than 100,000 young women who, from the 1880s through the 1960s, left their homes and traveled west to work as waitresses in Harvey House restaurants along the Santa […]

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Archaeology Café (Phoenix): Archaeology of the Human Experience

Macayo's Central 4001 N. Central Avenue, Phoenix, AZ, United States

On April 19, 2016, Michelle Hegmon (Arizona State University) will present “Archaeology of the Human Experience.” From Michelle: I will lead a discussion about the Archaeology of the Human Experience (AHE), a new approach that I am developing with a number of colleagues and students (Hegmon 2016). AHE endeavors to understand what it was actually […]

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