Celebrate the 50th anniversary of Arizona Humanities and the 9th anniversary of the Reading is Medicine Book Club with us! Join us for a thrilling discussion of Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology. Enjoy readings by two featured authors, Darcie Little Badger and Amber Blaeser-Wardzala from the book and immerse yourself in […]
Presentation Description: Numerous fires, landslides, floods, labor strikes, polluted air, epidemics, Depression, recessions, financial collapse, one adversity after another. Any one of these might spell the end of a lesser community. But, in Arizona, one town survived these “near-death” experiences, and more; yet managed to survive. Some might even say, “thrive.” This presentation looks […]
PRESENTATION DESCRIPTION Entrepreneurs offering assorted “get rich quick” schemes and “cure-alls” have visited Arizona since the early days. Benefitting from tales of abundant resources in the territory, limited law enforcement and communication, a scoundrel could create enticing promises of wealth and health without much external oversight. Newspapers often fanned the hysteria only to later denounce […]
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