Arizona Place Names: Names on the Land

Roadhaven Resort 1000 S. Idaho Rd., Apache Junction, AZ, United States

Place names are like fossil poetry: they afford a kind of folk history, a snapshot in time that enables us to read them and reconstruct how people have assigned names […]

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Sustainability Issues in Arizona: A Moral Responsibility?

Prescott Public Library 215 E. Goodwin St., Prescott, AZ, United States

Join Goodwin in a conversation about sustainability issues facing Arizona. Topics can include the coal-burning Navajo Generating Station, the Colorado River dams, uranium mining around the Grand Canyon, wind turbines, […]

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Walking the Corn Pollen Path

Red Rock State Park - AZ State Parks 4050 Red Rock Loop Road, Sedona, AZ, United States

Knowing one’s culture implies being educated about who you are, what social order expects of you, and it provides the primary steps to individual identity.  Stories of the Emergence, Trotting […]

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A Taste of Chanukah – Documentary Film Screening

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

A Taste of Chanukah: A Celebration of the Joys and Music of the Holiday Starring Theodore Bikel FREE RSVP to: lbell@azjhs.org or call 602-241-7870 People of all faiths welcome A […]

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Pauline Weaver and the Mountain Men of Arizona

Esmond Station K-8 9400 S. Atterbury Wash Way, Vail, AZ, United States

This presentation explains who the mountain men were, how they lived, and why they were in Arizona. Using a colorful presentation, Weber, clad in buckskins, focuses on the life and […]

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Recurring

Phoenix Festival of the Arts

Visit Arizona Humanities in the Family Zone for storytelling, trivia, give-aways, and more! Enjoy activities with our program partners The Chandler Museum and Heritage Square! Stay tuned, more information coming […]

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The Arizona Connection to Sacagawea

Prescott Family History Center 1001 Ruth Street, Prescott, AZ, United States

Beginning with a short overview of the epic 1804 journey of Lewis and Clark, Weber then focuses on the little known history of Sacagawea's son, Jean Baptiste Charbonneau.  Jean Baptiste […]

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The New Deal in Arizona

The Museum of Casa Grande 110 W. Florence Blvd, Casa Grande, AZ, United States

Arizona’s New Deal built sidewalks, post offices, provided school lunches and outhouses. It produced roadside shrines and monuments to encourage tourism, check dams and mud stock tanks to support Arizona […]

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