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 […]

Free

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, […]

Free

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 […]

Free

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 […]

Free

Specters of the Past: Arizona’s Ghost Towns – Clarkdale

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

The promise of unimagined riches is what brought many of the earliest colonizers to the Arizona Territory. Following the trail to the discovery of the mother lode, they built, then […]

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The Yavapai-Apache Forced March – Flagstaff

AZ, United States

Part of Native American Heritage Month, supported by an Arizona Humanities grant. 2018 Native American Heritage Month November 2, 6pm: Lecture on Yavapai-Apache forced march Jane Russell-Winiecki presents the history […]

“Protecting a Way of Life” Kinship Responsibilities – Arivaca

Arivaca Old School House 17080 W. 4th St, Arivaca, AZ, United States

Royce Manuel (Akimel O’odham) best describes his work through the “Tools of Yesterday” using plant fiber, primitive bows & arrows, knapping stone, and making agave plant cordage. As a tribal […]

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Arizona Goes to the Moon – Sedona

Red Rock Visitor Center and Ranger Station 8375 State Route 179, Sedona, AZ, Sedona, AZ, United States

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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