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449 N. Dry Lake St.
Casa Grande, AZ 85122 United States Get Directions
(520) 421-8710
http://www.casagrandeaz.gov/rec/library/
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Pathways of Water: Historical Journeys Along Arizona’s Rivers with Jay Craváth

Casa Grande Public Library 449 N. Dry Lake St., Casa Grande, AZ, United States

Water sustains life and has a significant role in our state’s history. The myths and stories of our indigenous tribes are rich with its references. Immigrants trod and floated Arizona’s waterways enduring great peril. Government surveyors explored and mapped our river systems. Huge dams blocked their flow to create vast reservoirs. This program will share […]

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A Staggering Panorama: Women Artists and the Grand Canyon

Casa Grande Public Library 449 N. Dry Lake St., Casa Grande, AZ, United States

The iconic image of the Grand Canyon, the state’s signature landscape, has inspired countless artists with its geologically impressive and colorful beauty. In the nineteenth century, there were few women who participated in the national enthusiasm for landscape painting, but in the twentieth century, women emphatically claimed this subject. The Santa Fe Railway formed the […]

Rock Hounds and River Rats: The 1937 Carnegie-CalTech Grand Canyon Expedition

Casa Grande Public Library 449 N. Dry Lake St., Casa Grande, AZ, United States

In 1937, a team of CalTech geology professors and rough-and-tumble boatmen set out in three small wooden boats on a six-week journey through the Grand Canyon to study the ancient rocks of the canyon’s Inner Gorge. At the time, fewer than a dozen river parties had successfully run the canyon–often with a loss of boats […]

“Hyenas in Petticoats”–How Women Struggled Against Every Dirty Trick in the Books to Win the Vote!

Casa Grande Public Library 449 N. Dry Lake St., Casa Grande, 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 […]

Kate Cory: Arizona Artist, Adventurer, and Photographer

Casa Grande Public Library 449 N. Dry Lake St., Casa Grande, AZ, United States

Artist Kate Cory, 1861-1958, learned of the Hopi Mesas in 1905 through a lecture at the Pen and Brush Club in New York City. By fall of that year, Kate Cory made the decision to travel to Arizona and spend time among the Hopi People. For the next seven years Kate lived in the mesa-top […]

Legacies of the Past: Arizona Women Who Made History (Casa Grande)

Casa Grande Public Library 449 N. Dry Lake St., Casa Grande, AZ, United States

From artists and healers, teachers and entrepreneurs, women who plowed the land and those who were instrumental in establishing laws for the new territory of Arizona. Many early Arizona women became known for their fortitude in the face of adversity, their confrontation of extraordinary and sometimes dangerous situations, their adventuresome spirits, and their dedication to […]

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FRANK Talk – – Borders, Walls, and Immigration – Casa Grande

Casa Grande Public Library 449 N. Dry Lake St., Casa Grande, AZ, United States

Scott Warren, Freelance Geographer Immigration is one of the most divisive issues facing our country and our state. Who comes in and out of the U.S., and how? Do current immigration laws effectively promote national security and economic prosperity, without compromising human and civil rights? In Arizona border security and immigration policies are more than […]

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Coming Home to a Place You’ve Never Been Before – Casa Grande

Casa Grande Public Library 449 N. Dry Lake St., Casa Grande, AZ, United States

What is it like moving to a place where you do not know the language or culture? Where you do not have any family or friends? Where you do not know what you are eating or where you are sleeping? And now it is your home! Could you do it? Who in your family did […]

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Landscapes of Migration in the Arizona-Sonora Borderland – Casa Grande

Casa Grande Public Library 449 N. Dry Lake St., Casa Grande, AZ, United States

The dividing line of the U.S.-Mexico border may be the most significant feature of the Arizona-Sonora borderland today, but the region is also at the center of major north-south corridors of human migration. In this talk, Scott warren offers an in-depth look at historical and contemporary patterns of south-north migration through this region, from ancient […]

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Armed with Our Language, We Went to War: The Navajo Code Talkers – Casa Grande

Casa Grande Public Library 449 N. Dry Lake St., Casa Grande, AZ, United States

During WWII a select group of young Navajo men enlisted in the Marines with a unique weapon. Using the Navajo language, they devised a secret code that the enemy never deciphered.  For over 40 years a cloak of secrecy hung over the Code Talker’s service until the code was declassified and they were finally honored […]

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