Arizona Goes to the Moon – Sedona

Church of the Nazarene 55 Rojo Dr, Sedona

Arizona played a key role in preparing to send humans to the moon in the late 1960s/early 1970s. The Apollo astronauts themselves traveled to the Grand Canyon and volcanic fields […]

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Arizona’s First Meteorite Man: H H Nininger – Winslow

Winslow Visitor Center/Hubbell Trading Post 523 W 2nd St, Winslow, AZ, United States

Harvey Harlow Nininger was an American meteoriticist and educator who revived interest in the scientific study of meteorites in the 1930s and assembled one of the world’s largest personal collections. […]

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Día de los Muertos: A Celebration of Life and Death – Prescott

Smoki Museum 147 North Arizona Avenue, Prescott, AZ, United States

Dressed in a Mexican huipil with her face painted in a traditional calavera (skull), Elena Díaz Bjorkquist answers the questions of what Día de los Muertos is, where it came […]

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Author Colson Whitehead at the Tucson Humanities Festival – Tucson

University of Arizona Tucson, AZ, United States

REVISITING THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD With Colson Whitehead, Pulitzer Prize Winning Author The University of Arizona - NORTH BALLROOM, UA MEMORIAL STUDENT UNION Thursday, October 18 - 7:00 p.m. Colson Whitehead has established himself […]

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Ghostly Stories Festival – Phoenix

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

Join us for the annual Ghostly Stories Festival in downtown Phoenix! Celebrate stories, books, and reading with a spooky twist! Wear a costume and enjoy multicultural story time, arts and […]

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Life on the Lazy B as Lived by an American Cowboy and Rancher – Tucson

Mountain View Ballroom 38735 S. Mountain View Blvd,, Tucson, AZ, United States

In 1880, Alan Day’s grandfather homesteaded the Lazy B ranch.  This dusty dry tract of land produced a Supreme Court Justice, a lauded Arizona state senator, and a career rancher, […]

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John Wesley Powell:  Into the Great Unknown – Buckeye

Buckeye Community Center/Senior Center 201 E. Centre Avenue, Buckeye, AZ, United States

Millions of travelers visit the Grand Canyon each year, but just 150 years ago, this was still considered the “last blank spot on the map.” One man, a one-armed civil […]

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AZ H20 + Art (Phoenix)

Burton Barr Central Library 1221 N. Central Ave., Phoenix, AZ, United States

Burton Barr Central Library Second Floor, College Depot Auditorium AZ H20 + Art with Jim Ballinger Hoover Dam is an iconic marvel of American engineering.  Created to manage the floodwaters […]

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