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The Grand Canyon Association (GCA) is pleased to present the Canyon Country Community Lecture Series in Flagstaff, Glendale and Prescott. The goal of this series is to take the rich interpretive themes of Grand Canyon National Park and the surrounding region directly to enthusiasts in nearby communities.
This series features regional and national authors, photographers, artists, scientists, National Park Service rangers, legendary hikers, river runners, Grand Canyon Field Institute instructors, and many others speaking about the canyon country of the Southwest and issues related to the region.
The Flagstaff lecture series is cosponsored by GCA, Northern Arizona University’s Cline Library and Coconino Community College’s Colorado Plateau Studies.
The Glendale lecture series is cosponsored by GCA, the Foothills Branch of the Glendale Public Library and Coconino Community College’s Colorado Plateau Studies.
The Prescott lecture series is cosponsored by GCA, Sharlot Hall Museum and Coconino Community College’s Colorado Plateau Studies.
For more information contact us at:
(800) 858-2808 or gcassociation@grandcanyon.org
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FLAGSTAFF - Stewart Aitchison The Last Wagon Train: The Hole-in-the-Rock Expedition
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Cline Library
Northern Arizona Unviversity
Flagstaff, Ariz.
7:00 p.m.
In 1879, 230 settlers in southwestern Utah heeded the call from the leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to pull up stakes and move to the distant San Juan River country of southeastern Utah. Their six-month-long wagon trip was a journey of peril, difficulty and spectacular scenery.
Stewart Aitchison is a zoologist and geologist by training, and a naturalist by passion. He has been exploring, photographing, teaching and writing about the natural world for forty years, ten of those as a field biologist for the Museum of Northern Arizona.
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PRESCOTT - Harvey Leake Wisdom of a Navajo Shepard: Wolfkiller's Own Account as Recorded by Louisa Wade Wetherill
Sunday, September 21, 2008
Sharlot Hall Museum
415 West Gurley Street
Prescott, Ariz.
1:00 p.m.
Wolfkiller is the remarkable life story of a Navajo shepherd who lived in the Monument Valley region of the Navajo country. Raised by his grandfather and mother, through his embrace of the natural world, he developed both a rare depth of character and an understanding of human relations that guided him through times of adversity. Wolfkiller’s story was recorded and translated by pioneer trader Louisa Wade Wetherill, who met him after moving to his community in the early twentieth century.
Harvey Leake began tracing the trail of his great-grandparents, Louisa and John Wetherill, more than twenty-five years ago in libraries, archives, and family papers, and by listening to the recollections of the family elders. He assists in the interpretation of historical documents and photographs for the Wetherill archive at the Anasazi Heritage Center in Dolores, Colorado.
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PRESCOTT - Paul Hirt and Yolonda Youngs
Sunday, October 19, 2008
Sharlot Hall Museum
415 West Gurley Street
Prescott, Ariz.
1:00 p.m.
Over the years, the Grand Canyon was publicized to tourists and the general public through popular images: from penny postcards to magazines like Arizona Highways and then film. These visual depictions of America's grandest spectacle affected the placement of visitor facilities, the development of park policies, and the evolving cultural meaning of the Grand Canyon itself as seen through the eyes of tourists.
Join Arizona State University Professor of History, Paul Hirt and Yolonda Youngs as they explores how visual images of the canyon helped make the Grand Canyon a monumental national playground and iconic American landscape.
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FLAGSTAFF - Paul Hirt and Yolonda Youngs
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Cline Library
Northern Arizona University
Flagstaff, Ariz.
7:00 p.m.
Over the years, the Grand Canyon was publicized to tourists and the general public through popular images: from penny postcards to magazines like Arizona Highways and then film. These visual depictions of America's grandest spectacle affected the placement of visitor facilities, the development of park policies, and the evolving cultural meaning of the Grand Canyon itself as seen through the eyes of tourists.
Join Arizona State University Professor of History, Paul Hirt and Yolonda Youngs as they explores how visual images of the canyon helped make the Grand Canyon a monumental national playground and iconic American landscape.
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PRESCOTT - Ron Blakey and Wayne Ranney
Tracing the Ancient Landscapes of the Colorado Plateau
Sunday, November 16, 2008
Sharlot Hall Museum
415 West Gurley Street
Prescott, Ariz.
1:00 p.m.
The beautiful stratified rocks of the Colorado Plateau tell a fascinating story of our ever-evolving environment. Imagine landscapes near sea level with tropical, shallow seas; sandy windblown deserts; and an Amazon-scale river system that reached as far as the Appalachian Mountains.
Join geologists Ron Blakey and Wayne Ranney as they take you on an incredible journey through time on the Colorado Plateau where these long lost scenes come to life in a series of dynamic and newly created paleogeographic maps from the new book published by the Grand Canyon Association
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FLAGSTAFF - Ron Blakey and Wayne Ranney
Tracing the Ancient Landscapes of the Colorado Plateau
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Cline Library
Northern Arizona Unviversity
Flagstaff, Ariz.
7:00 p.m.
The beautiful stratified rocks of the Colorado Plateau tell a fascinating story of our ever-evolving environment. Imagine landscapes near sea level with tropical, shallow seas; sandy windblown deserts; and an Amazon-scale river system that reached as far as the Appalachian Mountains.
Join geologists Ron Blakey and Wayne Ranney as they take you on an incredible journey through time on the Colorado Plateau where these long lost scenes come to life in a series of dynamic and newly created paleogeographic maps from the new book published by the Grand Canyon Association
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FLAGSTAFF - Gary Ladd
Canyon Experiences: Sublime to Silly
Wednesday, December 03, 2008
Cline Library
Northern Arizona University
Flagstaff, Ariz.
7:00 p.m.
Many canyon trips are carried out as planned—facts are uncovered, beauty is exposed and experienced, and hazardous routes are negotiated with aplomb. But not every trip into the canyons of the Colorado Plateau proceeds as intended; blunders, surprises and preposterously unlikely situations can and do occur. And although you just never know what might happen, the experience is almost always worth it.
Join Gary Ladd, an award-winning landscape photographer, on a photographic trip into the canyons of the Colorado Plateau.
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PRESCOTT - Amy Horn Stories Among the Aspen: An Archeologist's Perspective on the Ranching History of the North Rim and North Kaibab
Sunday, December 21, 2008
Sharlot Hall Museum
415 West Gurley Street
Prescott, Ariz.
1:00 p.m.
Today’s visitors to the North Rim don’t often consider that the area’s history includes thousands of cattle grazing on summer pasture. But before tourists discovered the magnificent views from Grand Canyon’s North Rim, cowboys found the Kaibab Plateau’s lush pastures. Over the past decade, Grand Canyon National Park archaeologists have discovered numerous archaeological sites from the ranching history of the North Rim.
Amy Horn, a Grand Canyon National Park Archaeologist, shares the archaeological record of ranching on the North Rim, which substantiates, enhances, and occasionally contradicts, but always brings to life, the written record of ranching on the North Rim.
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FLAGSTAFF - Kathy Sullivan California Condors in Arizona!
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Cline Library, Northern Arizona University
Flagstaff, Ariz.
7:00 p.m.
How many condors do we have in Arizona? Where can you go to see them? What about the wild-hatched condor chicks' successes? Learn the obstacles that condors face in the wild and what you can do to help conserve these prehistoric giants.
Arizona Game and Fish Condor Biologist Kathy Sullivan will tell you all about these amazing birds brought back from the brink of extinction.
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PRESCOTT - Gary Ladd
Canyon Experiences: Sublime to Silly
Sunday, May 17, 2009
Sharlot Hall Museum
415 West Gurley Street
Prescott, Ariz.
1:00 p.m.
Many canyon trips are carried out as planned—facts are uncovered, beauty is exposed and experienced, and hazardous routes are negotiated with aplomb. But not every trip into the canyons of the Colorado Plateau proceeds as intended; blunders, surprises and preposterously unlikely situations can and do occur. And although you just never know what might happen, the experience is almost always worth it.
Join Gary Ladd, an award-winning landscape photographer, on a photographic trip into the canyons of the Colorado Plateau.
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GLENDALE - Wayne Ranney
Tracing the Ancient Landscapes of the Colorado Plateau
Thursday, May 21, 2009
Foothills Branch of the Glendale Public Library
19055 North 57th Avenue
Glendale, Ariz.
7:00 p.m.
The beautiful stratified rocks of the Colorado Plateau tell a fascinating story of our ever-evolving environment. Imagine landscapes near sea level with tropical, shallow seas; sandy windblown deserts; and an Amazon-scale river system that reached as far as the Appalachian Mountains.
Join geologist and author Wayne Ranney as he takes you on an incredible journey through time on the Colorado Plateau where these long lost scenes come to life in a series of dynamic and newly created paleogeographic maps from the new book published by the Grand Canyon Association
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GLENDALE - Gary Ladd
Canyon Experiences: Sublime to Silly
Thursday, July 16, 2009
Foothills Branch of the Glendale Public Library
19055 North 57th Avenue
Glendale, Ariz.
7:00 p.m.
Many canyon trips are carried out as planned—facts are uncovered, beauty is exposed and experienced, and hazardous routes are negotiated with aplomb. But not every trip into the canyons of the Colorado Plateau proceeds as intended; blunders, surprises and preposterously unlikely situations can and do occur. And although you just never know what might happen, the experience is almost always worth it.
Join Gary Ladd, an award-winning landscape photographer, on a photographic trip into the canyons of the Colorado Plateau.
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