Here's a tour bargain!
Affinity Group Tours is conducting a March 12, 2010 tour that will go from Tempe to Besh-Ba-Gowah and Boyce Thompson Arboretum.
There is a special price of $96/person for Arizona Historical Society members with a current membership card. The price is $110/person for non-AHS members.
The tour will depart from the AHS Museum at Papago Park, 1300 N. College Avenue in Tempe at 8:00 a.m. and return at 5:00 p.m. The reservations deadline for the tour is Friday, March 5, 2010.
Besh-Ba-Gowah Archaeological Park near Globe, Arizona is one of the largest single-site archaeological collections in the southwest and one of the most significant finds of Southwest archaeology. The Archaeological Park preserves the remains of a 300-room pueblo inhabited by the Salado Indians from 1225-1400 A.D. Next, the tour group will visit Boyce Thompson Arboretum near Superior, Arizona for a picnic lunch and guided tour. The Smith Interpretive Center was built in 1925 of locally quarried stone, and is on the National Register of Historic Places. The Arboretum includes the Heritage Rose Garden, Cactus Garden, Herb Garden, Eucalyptus Forest and large Demonstration Garden.
Tour includes transportation with professional driver, admissions, professional tour guide, picnic lunch, and chilled, bottled water. For more information, contact Connie Cornelius at Affinity Group Tours: -- Telephone: 888-561-8976 Email: connie@affinitygrouptours.com.
A tour flyer is on the AHS website at www.arizonahistoricalsociety.org/UserFiles/PDF/news_events/Besh-Ba-Gowah2.pdf . Tour details can also be found online at www.affinitygrouptours.com/tourselections.html .
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Monday, February 15, 2010
Historical League Cookbooks
The Historical League has just received 3,000 copies of its award-winning cookbook. Click here for details and information on how you can buy it.
Sunday, February 14, 2010
Arizona History Books
It is appropriate to recognize Arizona Statehood Day with some books about Arizona. Some of the Central Arizona Chapter Board members have listed their three favorites:
Janice Bryson
Vanished Arizona by Martha Summerhayes. The story of an Army wife in the days when non-Native American women were scarce in the territory. (Although my father thought Martha complained too much; I can see the struggle she had)
The Great American Orphan Abduction by Linda Gordon - - life in the mining towns of Clifton and Morenci and dynamics of life between the Caucasions and Mexicans in regards to their relationships, social events, opportunities for education and treament on the job.
Apache Vengence by Jess Hayes - true story of the capture of the Apache Kid and other Indians; their trial; their subsequent escape and the murder of Sheriff Glenn Reynolds and the manhunt that followed all over the state.
Tobe Daum
Amazing Girls of Arizona, by Jan CleereChief YellowHorse Lives On by Lisa Schneblly HeidingerWillow Creek Road by Richard Clark
Mary Colter, Architect of the Southwest by Arnold Berke
Phil Hanson
Thomas Edwin Farish - History of Arizona (I know it's 8 volumes )
Reg Manning - What Kind of Cactus izzat
Marshall Trimble – Arizona
George Hartz
My three non-fiction recommendations would be Marshall Trimble’s “Roadside History of Arizona”, Martha Summerhayes’ “Vanished Arizona”, and “Be It Enacted: The Creation of the Territory of Arizona” by Dr. B. Sacks.
For fiction it would be Nancy Turner’s “These Is My Words”.
Ruth Ann Hogan
Three books by Nancy E. Turner, who lives in Tucson. They are:
These is my Words
Sarah's Quilt
The Star Garden
Charles Lucky
The Arizona Story by Kyle McKoy and Jim Turner
Lazy B: Growing Up on a Cattle Ranch in the American Southwest by Sandra Day O'Connor
Tony Hillerman's Landscape by his daughter Anne Hillerman
Dr. James McBride
My three would be Summerhayes, Vanished Arizona; an easy first choice. Second, Eva Antonia Wilbur-Cruce, A Beautiful Cruel Country, and third, so that that there is a survey available, Marshall Trimble's Arizona: A Cavalcade of History. But I've got to tell you limiting it to three choices was difficult. I wish there was a good, comprehensive book on mining, and one on organized labor; the impact of these two areas on the state, in my opinion, cannot be overstated.
Richard Shaw
1. For best general history, "Arizona, a history" by prof. Thomas Sheridan, UA Press
2. For a depiction of early Arizona history and adventures, "Arizona, years of courage" by Vance Wampler, based on the life of Arizona pioneer William Kirkland
3. For the best way to understand the evolution of the State, Counties, and cities and geography, "Historical Atlas of Arizona" by Walker & Bufkin.
Michael Wade
On the Border with Crook by John Bourke
Arizona by Thomas Sheridan
Arizona by Malcolm Comeaux
Vanished Arizona by Martha Summerhayes. The story of an Army wife in the days when non-Native American women were scarce in the territory. (Although my father thought Martha complained too much; I can see the struggle she had)
The Great American Orphan Abduction by Linda Gordon - - life in the mining towns of Clifton and Morenci and dynamics of life between the Caucasions and Mexicans in regards to their relationships, social events, opportunities for education and treament on the job.
Apache Vengence by Jess Hayes - true story of the capture of the Apache Kid and other Indians; their trial; their subsequent escape and the murder of Sheriff Glenn Reynolds and the manhunt that followed all over the state.
Tobe Daum
Amazing Girls of Arizona, by Jan CleereChief YellowHorse Lives On by Lisa Schneblly HeidingerWillow Creek Road by Richard Clark
Mary Colter, Architect of the Southwest by Arnold Berke
Phil Hanson
Thomas Edwin Farish - History of Arizona (I know it's 8 volumes )
Reg Manning - What Kind of Cactus izzat
Marshall Trimble – Arizona
George Hartz
My three non-fiction recommendations would be Marshall Trimble’s “Roadside History of Arizona”, Martha Summerhayes’ “Vanished Arizona”, and “Be It Enacted: The Creation of the Territory of Arizona” by Dr. B. Sacks.
For fiction it would be Nancy Turner’s “These Is My Words”.
Ruth Ann Hogan
Three books by Nancy E. Turner, who lives in Tucson. They are:
These is my Words
Sarah's Quilt
The Star Garden
Charles Lucky
The Arizona Story by Kyle McKoy and Jim Turner
Lazy B: Growing Up on a Cattle Ranch in the American Southwest by Sandra Day O'Connor
Tony Hillerman's Landscape by his daughter Anne Hillerman
Dr. James McBride
My three would be Summerhayes, Vanished Arizona; an easy first choice. Second, Eva Antonia Wilbur-Cruce, A Beautiful Cruel Country, and third, so that that there is a survey available, Marshall Trimble's Arizona: A Cavalcade of History. But I've got to tell you limiting it to three choices was difficult. I wish there was a good, comprehensive book on mining, and one on organized labor; the impact of these two areas on the state, in my opinion, cannot be overstated.
Richard Shaw
1. For best general history, "Arizona, a history" by prof. Thomas Sheridan, UA Press
2. For a depiction of early Arizona history and adventures, "Arizona, years of courage" by Vance Wampler, based on the life of Arizona pioneer William Kirkland
3. For the best way to understand the evolution of the State, Counties, and cities and geography, "Historical Atlas of Arizona" by Walker & Bufkin.
Michael Wade
On the Border with Crook by John Bourke
Arizona by Thomas Sheridan
Arizona by Malcolm Comeaux
Saturday, February 13, 2010
Albie Sachs Speaks at the AHS Museum
Anti-apartheid activist and former Justice of the South African Constitutional Court, Albie Sachs, will speak at 7:00 p.m. on February 15 at the Arizona Historical Society Museum at Papago Park, 1300 N. College Avenue in Tempe, Arizona. His speech will focus on the post-apartheid reconstruction and the South African Constitutional Court Building.
The lecture is free to the public.
Sachs holds a B.A. and LL.B. degrees from the University of Cape Town and a Ph.D. from the University of Sussex. He was a chief architect of the South African Constitution and was a noted apartheid opponent. In 1988, he was the target of a car bombing by South African security agents, which cost him his right arm and sight in one eye.
The lecture is free to the public.
Sachs holds a B.A. and LL.B. degrees from the University of Cape Town and a Ph.D. from the University of Sussex. He was a chief architect of the South African Constitution and was a noted apartheid opponent. In 1988, he was the target of a car bombing by South African security agents, which cost him his right arm and sight in one eye.
Friday, February 12, 2010
Arizona Centennial Museum!
There was some big news today: Governor Brewer announced plans to create an Arizona Centennial Museum.
The museum will be a permanent facility dedicated to examining Arizona's history and the "5 C's": Citrus, Climate, Copper, Cattle, and Cotton." The Arizona Historical Society will manage the Centennial Museum.
The museum will be a permanent facility dedicated to examining Arizona's history and the "5 C's": Citrus, Climate, Copper, Cattle, and Cotton." The Arizona Historical Society will manage the Centennial Museum.
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