Beyond the Cotton Fields: Black Migrant Women Building Communities

Tempe History Museum 809 E. Southern Avenue, Tempe, AZ, United States

This presentation is based on the stories of five women from the Casa Grande Valley towns (Eloy, Randolph, Coolidge, Casa Grande, and the Gila Reservation) who, despite their busy and oppressive lives of work, family, poor housing, etc., managed to become politicized, self-educated activists. They rebuilt their lives and created lively communities even after "the […]

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Arizona Foundation for Women Young Professionals Mixer

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

This event is free and open to all! Come out and enjoy refreshments and a performance by Myrlin Hepworth (2013 Humanities Rising Star Awardee). Please RSVP through facebook. Click here to be directed to facebook.    

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Father Kino: Journey to Discovery

Copper Queen Library 6 Main St., Bisbee, 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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Armed with Our Language, We Went to War:  The Navajo Code Talkers

White Tank Library 20304 W. White Tank Mountain Road, Waddell, 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 deciphered.  For over 40 years a cloak of secrecy hung over the Code Talker’s service until the code was declassified and they were finally honored […]

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Swing into History: Popular Music of the Big Band Era

Mohave County Library Lake Havasu Branch 1770 McCulloch Blvd N., Lake Havasu City, AZ, United States

With the exception of the most ardent collectors and the older generations, the influence and legacy of the big bands is largely forgotten despite their overwhelming popularity and significant role in early radio.  Join Larson as he revisits the sounds that America listened and danced to for more than three decades.  Learn how iconic artists […]

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

Eloy Santa Cruz Library 1000 N. Main St., Eloy, 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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The Eagle and the Archaeologists: The Lindberghs’ 1929 Southwest Aerial Survey

Good Shepherd of the Hills Episcopal Church 6502 E. Cave Creek Rd., Cave Creek, 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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Sonoran Strange – Poetry and Performance

The Icehouse 429 W. Jackson St., Phoenix, AZ, United States

Join Arizona Humanities, the Arizona Commission on the Arts, and ASU's Performance in the Borderlands for an evening of poetry and performance exploring the Arizona-Sonora borderlands. Special appearance by Arizona's poet laureate Alberto Rios. FREE and open to all!

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Father Kino: Journey to Discovery

Salazar-Ajo Library 15 W. Plaza St. #179, Ajo, 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 […]

Free

Swing into History: Popular Music of the Big Band Era

Mohave County Library, Kingman Branch 3269 N. Burbank St., Kingman, United States

With the exception of the most ardent collectors and the older generations, the influence and legacy of the big bands is largely forgotten despite their overwhelming popularity and significant role in early radio.  Join Larson as he revisits the sounds that America listened and danced to for more than three decades.  Learn how iconic artists […]

Free

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