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

Yavapai College, Clarkdale Campus 601 Black Hills Drive, Clarkdale, 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, […]

For the Love of Turquoise

Yavapai College, Clarkdale Campus 601 Black Hills Drive, Clarkdale, AZ, United States

Turquoise has a long standing tradition amongst Native cultures of the Southwest, holding special significance and profound meanings to specific individual tribes. Even before the more contemporary tradition of combining silver with turquoise, cultures throughout the southwest used turquoise in necklaces, earrings, mosaics, fetishes, medicine pouches, and made bracelets of basketry stems lacquered with piñon […]

River of Dreams: Stories and Music of Arizona’s Waterways (Clarkdale)

Yavapai College, Clarkdale Campus 601 Black Hills Drive, Clarkdale, AZ, United States

Arizona’s rivers were first, lush green ribbons of life through a desert landscape. They became sustaining paths, first for the indigenous, later for immigrants leaving wagon tracks. On the Salt River, Hohokam built vast canals to direct water for irrigation. The first citizens of Phoenix used these same trenches. The Mohave tribes ruled the Colorado—that […]

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Celebrities, Artists…and Good Places to Drink (Clarkdale)

Yavapai College, Clarkdale Campus 601 Black Hills Drive, Clarkdale, AZ, United States

Arizona has always been a geographical muse for writers, artists and composers, as well as a getaway for the rich and famous.  In this talk, learn about some of the people who have had adventures, weddings and unusual experiences here, while also learning about some of the places they lifted a glass, and why you […]

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Wild, Weird, Wicked Arizona – Clarkdale

Yavapai College, Clarkdale Campus 601 Black Hills Drive, Clarkdale, AZ, United States

For a state that has been home to Geronimo, Wyatt Earp, César Chavez and Wonder Women, you would think Arizona earned some respect. Yet achieving statehood was a 50-year struggle, which finally ended on February 14, 1912. Jana borrows from both her work for True West Magazine and her work for Phoenix Magazine to put […]

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Dauntless Courage and Boundless Ambition: The Life of Buckey O’Neill – Clarkdale

Yavapai College, Clarkdale Campus 601 Black Hills Drive, Clarkdale, AZ, United States

Buckey O’Neill was one of Arizona’s legendary pioneers, even author William MacLeod Raine called him “the most many-sided man Arizona has produced”. Before dying in Cuba while serving as one of Theodore Roosevelt’s Rough Riders, O’Neill made his mark in Arizona as a newspaper editor, sheriff, mayor, and prospector, among other professions. Whether chasing train […]

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Riding with the Duke: John Wayne in Arizona – Clarkdale

Yavapai College, Clarkdale Campus 601 Black Hills Drive, Clarkdale, AZ, United States

John Wayne was born in Iowa and lived for most of his adult life in California. Yet, he spent many years exploring, living, and investing in Arizona, where he produced his own films, raised cattle, operated a game ranch, and was seemingly everywhere at once. Wayne remains an iconic presence in American popular culture. In […]

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Father Kino: Journey to Discovery – Clarkdale

Yavapai College, Clarkdale Campus 601 Black Hills Drive, Clarkdale, AZ, United States

Father Kino is one of two Arizonans recognized in the U. S. Capitol Hall of Heroes. The Padre was a mathematician, astronomer, geographer, map maker, explorer, rancher, and friend to the Indians of the Pimería Alta. Journeying on horseback or foot, multiple explorations of the Pimería Alta were made by the padre, resulting in the […]

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Arizona’s War Town: Flagstaff Navajo Ordnance Depot, and World War II – Clarkdale

Yavapai College, Clarkdale Campus 601 Black Hills Drive, Clarkdale, AZ, United States

Just weeks after Pearl Harbor, the War Department announced the construction of a massive ammunition depot ten miles west of Flagstaff at Bellemont on U.S. Highway 66. Flagstaff’s population exploded from five to twenty thousand. The Army rushed the $17 million project to completion in a spasm of boomtown upheaval. Several thousand Navajo and Hopi […]

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Annie Neal the Black Cherokee Princess: Host to Royalty, the Rich, Buffalo Bill, and a Mighty Sharp Shooter

Yavapai College, Clarkdale Campus 601 Black Hills Drive, Clarkdale, AZ, United States

In 1896 in a tiny Arizona town, Annie Box Neal presided over her luxury hotel and her elite guests from Europe, Asia, and America. It was a list that included Italian Countesses, Russian Princes, Ambassadors, and the wealthy. Annie treated them all the same and gave them a good taste of western hospitality. In some […]

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