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Name: CANCELED – Mescal Agave Use in Arizona: Food, Fiber and Vessel
Start: 2020-04-01T18:30:00-07:00
End: 2020-04-01T20:00:00-07:00

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March 2020
Hyenas in Petticoats: How Women Struggled Against Every Trick in the Books to Win the Vote!

March 5, 2020 @ 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm

Ironwood Library 4333 E. Chandler Blvd., Phoenix, AZ, United States

As we celebrate the 100th birthday of the 19th Amendment in 2020, it’s time to look back at the enormous effort it took for women to be granted full citizenship and the vote. History has downplayed suffrage, as if it were just a footnote in American history, when in fact, it was the nation’s largest […]
April 2020
CANCELED – Mescal Agave Use in Arizona: Food, Fiber and Vessel

April 1, 2020 @ 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm

The agave plant was used by Native peoples for numerous utilitarian items. Mescal served as a valuable food source still being harvested and prepared to this day by many Indigenous groups. For millennia people have pit roasted the heart of the plant yielding a nutritious food staple rich in calcium and zinc. This talk includes […]