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Connecting Students with Veterans Reception & Book Signing

Arizona State University - West Camps 4701 W. Thunderbird Rd., Glendale, AZ, United States

Veterans Heritage Project presents Connecting Students with Veterans Reception and Book Signing for Phoenix Edition 1. This event celebrates the 1000th interview that local high school students have conducted with veterans. Join the Veterans Heritage Project for the debut of Since You Asked XI: A Salute to the Air Force Keynote Speaker: Dr. Richard H. […]

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Reading Mexican Border Town Pasts with Photographic Postcards

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

What did Mexican border towns look like in the past? Is there a way to reconstruct the visual past of these towns using popular imagery? The picture postcard is one way to rediscover that past. This project examines the use and application of photographic postcards to the historical geographic study of towns on the Mexican […]

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

Springerville Heritage Center 418 E. Main Stret, Springerville, 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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ONEBOOKAZ Book Discussion (Vernon)

Vernon Public Library #10 County Road 3142, Vernon, AZ, United States

Join ONEBOOKAZ for a facilitated book discussion on the Adult ONEBOOKAZ title, The Blind Eye: A Sephardic Journey by Marcia Fine. Barbara Jaquay will be the facilitator for this discussion geared toward adults. More info on ONEBOOKAZ can be found on their website and twitter. This project was funded in part by a Project Grant […]

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Arizona’s Historic Trading Posts

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

Early traders traveled through Arizona Territory, selling goods from their wagons, but they soon built stores that evolved into trading and social centers where wool, sheep, and Native arts were exchanged for sugar and salt, pots, pans, bridles, and saddles. Navajo trading posts are best known, but trading posts existed on every reservation in Arizona. […]

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Reading Mexican Border Town Pasts with Photographic Postcards

Pimeria Alta HIstorical Society 136 N. Grand Avenue, Nogales, AZ, United States

What did Mexican border towns look like in the past? Is there a way to reconstruct the visual past of these towns using popular imagery? The picture postcard is one way to rediscover that past. This project examines the use and application of photographic postcards to the historical geographic study of towns on the Mexican […]

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“The Roads Are for the Timid”: The Arizona Adventures and Romance of Mai Richie Reed*

Lake Havasu Museum of History 320 London Bridge Road, Lake Havasu City, AZ, United States

In 1907, an adventurous young woman from Philadelphia hopped on a train to see the distant Grand Canyon and thus launched an adventure that would change the course of her life.  Over the next several years, she visited the mesa-top pueblo of Acoma, explored the Grand Canyon, lived in a rustic cabin, and struck up […]

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ONEBOOKAZ Book Discussion (Cave Creek)

Desert Foothills Library 38443 N. Schoolhouse Road, Cave Creek , AZ, United States

Join ONEBOOKAZ for a facilitated book discussion on the Adult ONEBOOKAZ title, The Blind Eye: A Sephardic Journey by Marcia Fine. Elizabeth Larson will be the facilitator for this discussion geared toward adults. More info on ONEBOOKAZ can be found on their website and twitter. This project was funded in part by a Project Grant […]

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Reading Mexican Border Town Pasts with Photographic Postcards

Tohono O’odham Community College Main Campus, Rm. A-1 HWY 86, Sells, AZ, United States

What did Mexican border towns look like in the past? Is there a way to reconstruct the visual past of these towns using popular imagery? The picture postcard is one way to rediscover that past. This project examines the use and application of photographic postcards to the historical geographic study of towns on the Mexican […]

Free

Hot Topics Café – Setting Personal Environmental Priorities

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

Setting Personal Environmental Priorities - Facilitated by: Dr. Aaron Rizzieri Click Here for a Flyer Hot Topics Café creates a forum for civil discussion about issues of contemporary concern. Join us to learn more about the issue, and more about other people and their views. NAU’s Philosophy in the Public Interest convenes the Hot Topics […]

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