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Planes, Trains, and Automobiles (and Stage Coaches and Boats, too): Women Travel in Arizona

Tohono Chul Park 7366 N. Paseo del Norte, Tucson, AZ, United States

Arizona has some of the most stunning scenery in the world, but until recently, traveling over this terrain was quite an adventure. Meet women like army wife Martha Summerhayes, suffrage leader Josephine Brawley Hughes, the Harvey Girl waitresses, Barry Goldwater's personal pilot Ruth Reinhold, as well as other daring women who braved Arizona's extreme elements. […]

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Along Old Route 66

Tohono Chul Park 7366 N. Paseo del Norte, Tucson, AZ, United States

This presentation is based on segments from two television documentaries that were produced in Arizona and broadcast on public television stations and cable networks throughout the United States. Longtime residents of Northern Arizona recount tales of the impact of “the mother road” (Route 66) on their communities. A history of the road is illuminated by […]

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Fascinating Florence, AZ: Not Just a Prison Town

Saddlebrooke Mountain Clubhouse 38759 South Mountain View Boulevard, Tucson, AZ, United States

Florence began as a small rural desert town. In 1875 a major silver strike and designation as Pinal County seat changed the character of the town. Despite the past tales of shootouts and stage robberies that echo off the historic adobe walls, many people still find Florence the essence of a “small town” that is […]

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Recurring

23rd Zuni Festival of Art and Culture

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

The 23rd Zuni Festival of Art and Culture at the Museum of Northern Arizona will feature humanities-based programming co-developed by the museum and Zuni members.  Through conversations, film screenings, performances, and storytelling, festival goers will engage with Zuni history, philosophy, and culture. This program is made possible in part by a grant from Arizona Humanities.

Images of Grandeur: Artists and Photographers of the Grand Canyon

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

What makes the Grand Canyon so grand? When and how did the Grand Canyon change from being an impassable hole in the ground to the best of the Seven Wonders of the Natural World? This presentation examines the Grand Canyon through the eyes of conquistadors, military surveyors, writers, artists, and photographers from 1541 to the […]

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A Story, A Story: African and African American Oral Tradition and Storytelling

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

When the African slave was brought to the Caribbean and North and South America, s/he brought her oral literature and performance style. This presentation focuses on the transfer of those oral traditions from African culture to African American culture. Such traditions can be heard in trickster stories, but also observed in the narration of myths, […]

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With a Beefsteak and a Cup of Coffee: The Harvey Girls in the Southwest

The Fred Harvey company operated its exceptional chain of restaurants and hotels along the Santa Fe Railway from 1876 through the 1960s. Among its many innovations was the employment of “Harvey Girl” waitresses: single women who chose to leave their families and adhere to strict lifestyle restrictions for the opportunity to work at respectable jobs. […]

Desperado Trails: Outlaws on the Arizona Frontier

Joel D. Valdez Main Library 101 N. Stone Ave., Tucson, AZ, United States

Hang on to your hats as you ride the trails beside some of Arizona’s most wicked renegades during a time when massacres, mayhem and mischief ran rampant throughout Arizona Territory. Learn the sordid details of desperadoes such as cattle/horse rustler and murderer Augustine Chacon who claimed he killed over fifty men, ladies-man Buckskin Frank Leslie […]

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World War I in the Middle East: Roots of Contemporary Conflict

The Arizona Senior Academy 13715 E. Langtry Lane, Tucson, AZ, United States

Although World War I began 100 years ago, its effects are still evident in the Middle East today. The war ended the Ottoman Empire and created new states, yet the peace settlements left many Middle Eastern people dissatisfied. The treaties left millions of Kurds without a country, Arab lands divided into various British and French […]

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Desert Trader: Goldie Tracy Richmond, Trader, Trapper, and Quiltmaker

Smoki Museum Pueblo 147 N. Arizona Avenue, Prescott, AZ, United States

Goldie Tracy Richmond came to southwestern Arizona in 1927 where she lived in a canvas lean-to. To survive, Goldie mined, ran traplines, and operated Tracy’s Trading Post, living among the Tohono O’odham people for four decades. She was a large woman, and the stories told by the O’odham people of Goldie’s life are legendary. Goldie […]

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