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Phoenix Festival of the Arts

Visit Arizona Humanities in the Family Zone for storytelling, trivia, give-aways, and more! Enjoy activities with our program partners The Chandler Museum and Heritage Square! Stay tuned, more information coming soon! Dates: December 12-14, 2014 Hours: Friday, December 12 from 12 p.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday, December 13 from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Sunday, […]

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Honky Tonks, Brothels and Mining Camps: Entertainment in Old Arizona

In pioneer Arizona, among the best places to experience the performing arts were in the mining towns. Striking it rich meant having disposable income and miners, like the well-heeled of the Gilded Age, wanted to demonstrate their sophistication with culture. From the early popular music of ragtime and minstrelsy evolved orchestras, operas and glee clubs […]

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The Arizona Connection to Sacagawea

Prescott Family History Center 1001 Ruth Street, Prescott, AZ, United States

Beginning with a short overview of the epic 1804 journey of Lewis and Clark, Weber then focuses on the little known history of Sacagawea's son, Jean Baptiste Charbonneau.  Jean Baptiste Charbonneau was born on the expedition, adopted by William Clark, and went on to become one of the most interesting and foremost figures in early […]

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The New Deal in Arizona

The Museum of Casa Grande 110 W. Florence Blvd, Casa Grande, AZ, United States

Arizona’s New Deal built sidewalks, post offices, provided school lunches and outhouses. It produced roadside shrines and monuments to encourage tourism, check dams and mud stock tanks to support Arizona ranchers, as well as golf courses and pools for recreation. The federal investment in the built and cultural landscape of 1930s Arizona and the nation […]

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Arizona’s Civilian Conservation Corps and Our National Parks and Forests

Dorothy Powell Senior Adult Center 405 E. 6th St., Casa Grande, AZ, United States

In 1933, at the nadir of the Great Depression, the CCC was born. The program was designed to help unemployed and untrained young men learn new skills and earn money to support their families. CCCers fervently claim that the skill-building experiences forever changed their lives. These men built the roads, trails, picnic areas, ranger stations, […]

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Sedona Through Time

Desert Caballeros Western Museum 21 N. Frontier Street, Wickenburg, AZ, United States

Sedona is known for its colorful rocks, but how did this striking landscape come to be? Join Ranney on a thrilling trip back in time when the red rocks were part of a coastal plain, a Sahara-like desert, and warm, tropical seas. Learn how the area became sculpted into a maze of breathtaking buttes, spires, […]

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Authors Night with Dr. Richard Benson II

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

Join Arizona Humanities and la Phoenikera Writers' Guild for a reading and discussion with scholar, author and advocate Dr. Richard Benson II for the release of his new book, Fighting for Our Place in the Sun: Malcolm X and the Radicalization of the Black Student Movement, 1960-1973. According to the publisher, Benson "not only seeks […]

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Arizona Tourism from Stagecoaches to Kayaks

Ethel H. Berger Center 2950 E. Tacoma St., Sierra Vista, AZ, United States

Ever since the Grand Canyon became grand, tourists have been flocking to Arizona to see the sights and experience the unique landscape and indigenous cultures. This presentation covers the whole state over more than a century. From 1880s Grand Canyon stagecoach and mule rides, the Fred Harvey railroad era (Harvey Girls and Indian Detours), auto […]

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The Eagle and the Archaeologists: The Lindberghs’ 1929 Southwest Aerial Survey

Sedona Public Library 3250 White Bear Road, Sedona, 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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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.: A Review of Phase I and Phase II of His Life

Fairway Branch Library 10600 W. Peoria Ave., Sun City, AZ, United States

Dr. Martin L. King, Jr. was a multi-dimensional man all too often remembered solely for his “I Have a Dream” speech delivered at the March on Washington in 1963. Yet, there was another Dr. King that emerged after the Selma to Montgomery march and the subsequent Voting Rights Act of 1965. It was this King […]

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