Pauline Weaver and the Mountain Men of Arizona

Desert Caballeros Western Museum 21 N. Frontier Street, Wickenburg, 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 times of Pauline Weaver, Prescott, Arizona's first white citizen, and other famous mountain men who made their way through this territory. Using photos, maps and […]

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At Home: Veterans Read and Share Stories (Book Group)

Burton Barr Central Library - Meeting Room C 1221 N. Central Avenue, Phoenix, AZ, United States

Female and Male veterans are welcome to join this FREE five-session book group with dinner included. The group will read short stories and essays from classic and contemporary authors and talk about their own stories with fellow veterans. Facilitators: Dan Shilling, Ph.D. Arizona State University and Vietnam Veteran Dr. Gina Lang, Transpersonal & Integrative Psychologist […]

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Father Kino: Journey to Discovery

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

Through his many diaries and letters it is obvious that Father Kino was more than a missionary who worked among the Native Americans. While his name is often associated with the San Xavier del Bac Mission, he was also a skilled mathematician and cartographer.   He made more than 40 expeditions during his life while living […]

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The Eagle and the Archaeologists: The Lindberghs’ 1929 Southwest Aerial Survey

Verde Valley Archaeology Center 460 W Finnie Flat Road, Camp Verde, AZ, United States

Charles Lindbergh is best known for his famous 1927 flight across the Atlantic Ocean. But few realize that Lindbergh and his wife, Anne, played a brief but important role in archaeology. In 1929 they teamed up with noted archaeologist Alfred Kidder to conduct an unprecedented aerial photographic survey of Southwest prehistoric sites and geologic features […]

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Set in Stone but Not in Meaning: Southwestern Indian Rock Art

Verde Valley Archaeology Center 460 W Finnie Flat Road, Camp Verde, AZ, United States

Ancient Indian petroglyphs (symbols carved or pecked on rocks) and pictographs (rock paintings) are claimed by some to be forms of writing for which meanings are known. But are such claims supported by archaeology or by Native Americans?  Dart illustrates how petroglyph and pictograph styles changed through time and over different regions of the American […]

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Arizona Kicks on Route 66

Copper Queen Library 6 Main St., Bisbee, AZ, United States

U.S. Route 66, known as the “Mother Road,” was built in 1926. It ran from Chicago to L. A. During the depression of the 1930s, it became the major path by which people migrated west, seeking work, warm weather and new opportunities. Shore shares the history of Route 66 in Arizona, including the impact it […]

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

Robson Branch Library, Lecky Room 9330 E. Riggs Road, Sun Lakes, 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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Arizona’s Historic Trading Posts

Joyner-Green Valley Library 601 N. La Canada Drive, Green Valley, AZ, United States

Early traders traveled through Arizona Territory, selling goods from their wagons, but they soon built stores that evolved into trading and social centers where wool, sheep, and Native arts were exchanged for sugar and salt, pots, pans, bridles, and saddles. Navajo trading posts are best known, but trading posts existed on every reservation in Arizona. […]

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Honky Tonks, Brothels and Mining Camps: Entertainment in Old Arizona

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

In pioneer Arizona, among the best places to experience the performing arts were in the mining towns. Striking it rich meant having disposable income and miners, like the well-heeled of the Gilded Age, wanted to demonstrate their sophistication with culture. From the early popular music of ragtime and minstrelsy evolved orchestras, operas and glee clubs […]

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Hot Topics Café – The Value of Live Performance

Yavapai College: Sedona Center for Arts & Technology 4215 Arts Village Drive, Sedona, AZ, United States

The Value of Live Performance - Facilitated by: Russ Pryba, NAU Department of Philosophy Click Here for a Flyer Hot Topics Café creates a forum for civil discussion about issues of contemporary concern. Join us to learn more about the issue, and more about other people and their views. NAU’s Philosophy in the Public Interest […]

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