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Saving the Great American West: The Story of George Bird Grinnell

Tucson Jewish Community Center 3800 E. River Road, Tucson, 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 hide-hunters, and the disengaged U.S. Congress than George Bird Grinnell, the “Father of American Conservation.”  Grinnell […]

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Landscape of the Spirits: Hohokam Rock Art of South Mountain Park

Total Wine Classroom 1416 N. Litchfield Rd., Goodyear, AZ, United States

The South Mountains in Phoenix contain more than 8,000 ancient petroglyphs. This program will discuss Dr. Bostwick’s long-term study of these Hohokam petroglyphs and will describe the various types of designs, their general distribution, and their possible meanings. Interpretations of the petroglyphs include the marking of trails, territories, and astronomical events, as well as dream […]

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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.: A Review of Phase I and Phase II of His Life

Glendale Community College Student Union 6000 W. Olive Ave, Glendale, AZ, United States

Dr. Martin L. King, Jr. was a multi-dimensional man all too often remembered solely for his “I Have a Dream” speech delivered at the March on Washington in 1963. Yet, there was another Dr. King that emerged after the Selma to Montgomery march and the subsequent Voting Rights Act of 1965. It was this King […]

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Veterans Poetry Workshop

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

Veterans from all eras are invited to join a FREE six-session poetry writing workshop. Through readings, exercises, and discussion, participants will delve into their own experiences to practice the concise and potent craft of poetry writing. Childhood, family, friendship, love, loss, career, peace, war, and the everyday--all can offer rich material through which to understand […]

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Saving the Great American West:  The Story of George Bird Grinnell

Oro Valley Public Library 1305 W. Naranja Drive, Oro Valley, 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 hide-hunters, and the disengaged U.S. Congress than George Bird Grinnell, the “Father of American Conservation.”  Grinnell […]

Free

Orphan Trains to Arizona

Quartzsite Public Library 465 North Plymouth Avenue, Quartzsite, AZ, United States

Orphan Trains to Arizona is a multimedia presentation that tells the story of the 250,000 orphans and unwanted children who were put on trains in New York between 1854 and 1929 and sent all over the United States to be given away. Through live music, historical fiction, oral history, and informal discussion, participants will learn about […]

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Silver Images on Glass Plates: Early Photography in Arizona, 1850-1920

Osher Life Long Learning Institute, Yavapai College Verde Valley Campus 601 Black Hills Drive, Clarkdale, AZ, United States

Photographs have helped shape both historical and contemporary public perception of Arizona and the West. This program presents a chronological history and social development of photography in Territorial Arizona. Included are rare and unique historical images of daily life, public events, personalities, mining, Native Americans, and environment of early Arizona. Accompanying images are high-quality copies […]

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Silver Images on Glass Plates: Early Photography in Arizona, 1850-1920

Phippen Museum 4701 U.S. HWY 89N, Prescott, AZ, United States

Photographs have helped shape both historical and contemporary public perception of Arizona and the West. This program presents a chronological history and social development of photography in Territorial Arizona. Included are rare and unique historical images of daily life, public events, personalities, mining, Native Americans, and environment of early Arizona. Accompanying images are high-quality copies […]

Free

Desert Trader: Goldie Tracy Richmond, Trader, Trapper, and Quiltmaker

Tohono O'odham Nation Cultural Center and Museum Fresnal Canyon Road Topawa, Sells, AZ, United States

Goldie Tracy Richmond came to southwestern Arizona in 1927 where she lived in a canvas lean-to. To survive, Goldie mined, ran traplines, and operated Tracy’s Trading Post, living among the Tohono O’odham people for four decades. She was a large woman, and the stories told by the O’odham people of Goldie’s life are legendary. Goldie […]

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Orphan Trains to Arizona

Sedona Public Library 3250 White Bear Road, Sedona, AZ, United States

Orphan Trains to Arizona is a multimedia presentation that tells the story of the 250,000 orphans and unwanted children who were put on trains in New York between 1854 and 1929 and sent all over the United States to be given away. Through live music, historical fiction, oral history, and informal discussion, participants will learn about […]

Free

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