Growing Old with Humor

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

The Nilsens will illustrate ways that humor helps people face the challenges of growing old.  They will discuss some of the differences between growing old as a male and growing […]

Free

All Hat and No Cattle: The Language of the American West

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

Every day we use words and phrases whose roots lie in the American West. Words like “brand,” “maverick,” and “railroaded,” along with phrases like “climb down off your high horse” […]

Free

82nd Hopi Festival of Arts and Culture

Museum of Northern Arizona 3101 North Fort Valley Road, Flagstaff, AZ, United States

Through Heritage Insights Programming, the Museum of Northern Arizona will integrate humanities content into its 82nd Hopi Festivals of Art and Culture. Within the festival, specific programs led by tribal educators […]

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

Copper Queen Library 6 Main St., Bisbee, 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 […]

Free

Two Six Shooters Beat Four Aces: The Lives of Men on the Arizona Frontier

Sedona Winds Retirement Center 405 Jacks Canyon Rd., Sedona, AZ, United States

A saga of incredible action with gun battles, deadly weather, outlaws, and evasive fortunes, this lively presentation shares the stories of the pioneer men who first rode into the Arizona […]

Free

Hop, Skip & Jump into Summer Reading

New City PHX 1300 N. Central Ave, Phoenix, AZ, United States

Families and children are invited to this free fun-filled event celebrating reading on Saturday, July 18th from 10:00am – 1:00pm at New City Church (1300 N. Central Avenue – Phoenix, […]

Free

Hopi Summer

Sharlot Hall Museum 415 W. Gurley Street, Prescott

During a 1927 road trip to the Hopi Indian Reservation in northern Arizona, Maud and Carey Melville of Worcester, Massachusetts, befriended Ethel and Wilfred Muchvo at First Mesa. This presentation […]

Free

Recurring

Experience The Andes at The MIM

Musical Instrument Museum 4725 E. Mayo Boulevard, Phoenix, AZ, United States

Head on over to the Musical Instrument Museum on Saturday, August 1st and Sunday, August 2nd and experience the music and culture from The Andes. This famous South American mountain […]

Armed with Our Language, We Went to War:  The Navajo Code Talkers

La Posada Hotel 303 E. Second St., Winslow, AZ, United States

During WWII a select group of young Navajo men enlisted in the Marines with a unique weapon.  Using the Navajo language, they devised a secret code that the enemy never […]

Free

G. W. French (1820-1891)

Sedona Winds Retirement Center 405 Jacks Canyon Rd., Sedona, AZ, United States

Charles G. W. French, born 1820 in a small southeastern Massachusetts town, heeded the advice, "Go West, young man." Armed with letters of introduction from Daniel Webster and Benjamin R. […]

Free

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