Lives of Arizonans From Memoirs and Fiction

Bullion Plaza Cultural Center and Museum 1 Plaza Circle, Miami, AZ, United States

Arizona pioneers tell their stories in diaries, letters, and memoirs. Martha Summerhayes’s beloved Vanished Arizona and Captain John Bourke’s On the Border with Crook, plus biographies of Hopi, Pima, and Tohono O’odham women describe their lives and feelings. But we’ll also look at fiction, including Willa Cather’s Death Comes for the Archbishop, Zane Gray’s Riders of the Purple Sage, and […]

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Smithsonian Water/Ways Exhibit – Miami-Globe

Bullion Plaza Cultural Center and Museum 1 Plaza Circle, Miami, AZ, United States

Read more about Miami-Globe on the Water/Ways website. Dates: September 22 - November 4, 2018 Address: 150 N Plaza Circle, Miami, Arizona 85539-1629 Exhibit hours: Thursdays-Saturdays: 11:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m., Sundays: 12:00 - 3:00 p.m. The mission of Bullion Plaza is "dedicated to preserving and presenting the culturally diverse history, the human experience, as well as exploring the […]

Written in Thread: Arizona Women’s History Preserved in Their Quilts

Bullion Plaza Cultural Center and Museum 1 Plaza Circle, Miami, AZ, United States

Join Stevenson as she traces Arizona history through women who recorded pieces of their lives in their needlework.  Beginning with 1860s Mexican women, through 1990s Hopi women, this presentation introduces women who pioneered Arizona through quilts they stitched. Some of the women featured are Atanacia Santa Cruz Hughes, Tucson; Viola Slaughter, Southeastern Arizona; Alice Gillette Haught, […]

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Native Roads: A Virtual Guide to the Hopi and Navajo Nations

Bullion Plaza Cultural Center and Museum 1 Plaza Circle, Miami, AZ, United States

As editor of the third edition of Fran Kosik’s classic travel book, A Complete Motoring Guide to the Navajo and Hopi Nations, Turner retraced her routes in January 2013, updating information on dozens of intriguing Native American trading posts, prehistoric ruins, museums, and natural wonders. Using the pictures taken on that trip, this presentation creates […]

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