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Growing Arizona: Water for the Future with Sarah Porter

Prescott Public Library 215 E. Goodwin St., Prescott, AZ, United States

Water has played a vital role in the long history of thriving agriculture in Arizona. For generations, agricultural production was the linchpin of the state’s economy, and cotton, cattle and citrus production had a significant influence on how Arizona communities grew. Water continues to support farming, ranching, and more recently, urban population growth. As Arizona […]

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Flying through Arizona: The Story of the First National Women’s Air Race with Natalie Stewart-Smith

Prescott Public Library 215 E. Goodwin St., Prescott, AZ, United States

In 1929, the first national women’s air race from Santa Monica, CA to Cleveland, OH passed through Arizona. Stopping in Yuma, Phoenix, and Douglas, the intrepid fliers solidified their determination and sisterhood along these Arizona waypoints. Who were these aviators? What were their planes like in 1929? What challenges did they encounter along the way? […]

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The Other Epidemic: Gun Violence and Mass Shootings in America with Dr. Matthew Whitaker

Prescott Public Library 215 E. Goodwin St., Prescott, AZ, United States

Recent research on the frequency of mass shootings indicates that they are becoming more common and more deadly. A mass shooting is defined as four or more people (excluding the gunman) being injured or killed in an incident. According to the National Crime Victimization Survey, 470,840 people were victims of crimes that involved a firearm […]

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CANCELED – The 1894 Lowell Expedition to Arizona

Prescott Public Library 215 E. Goodwin St., Prescott, AZ, United States

In 1894 an Easterner named Andrew Douglass explored Arizona Territory in search of an ideal site to establish an astronomical observatory for Bostonian Percival Lowell. Traveling by train and stagecoach, Douglass visited Tombstone, Tucson, Tempe, Prescott and Flagstaff. While making scientific observations at each locale, he experienced a variety of unforeseen episodes. This expedition is […]

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

Prescott Public Library 215 E. Goodwin St., Prescott, AZ, United States

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 during the forming of these communities, […]

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

Prescott Public Library 215 E. Goodwin St., Prescott, 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 […]

Hellraising, Heroic, and Hidden Women of the Old West (Prescott)

Prescott Public Library 215 E. Goodwin St., Prescott, AZ, United States

Although history tries to tell us ONLY men settled the Old West, that is shattered by Jana's verbal tour through some of the amazing women who made all the difference. Any woman who came West in the 1800s had to be full of grit and spit to survive and Jana has collected the stories of […]

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Cowpokes, Crooks, and Cactus: Arizona in the Movies (Prescott)

Prescott Public Library 215 E. Goodwin St., Prescott, AZ, United States

Tyrone Power, Andy Devine,  Katy Jurado, Steve McQueen and, of course, John Wayne. From the earliest days of film, Arizona has been a setting and subject for hundreds of films. Some, like Junior Bonner and Red River, are considered classics, others, such as Billy Jack and Evolution, surely less so. Some may even be classics […]

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Arizona Stories: Frontier Characters and Communities – Prescott

Prescott Public Library 215 E. Goodwin St., Prescott, AZ, United States

From mammoth hunters and canal builders to Native Americans, Hispanics, Americans, Irish, Serbians, and just about every nationality under the sun, Arizona has always been a land of many cultures. And while the Earps and the Geronimo are world famous, Arizona can also be proud of its unsung men and women and cooperative communities. Here […]

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Hi Jolly and Mystery of the US Army Camel Corps – Prescott

Prescott Public Library 215 E. Goodwin St., Prescott, AZ, United States

This presentation will explore the US Army’s experiment with using camel from the Middle East to make it more mobile in the newly acquired Southwest.  In order to teach the soldiers about camels, a local from the Middle East, who was called Hi Jolly, was shipped over with the camels.  Even though Secretary of War […]

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