Will Holst is the video communications manager at the University of Arizona's UANews. An article published today by UANews tells us that Will has received a Rocky Mountain Emmy Award nomination for a video on the Arizona History Museum. The video features Jim Turner, historian for the Arizona Historical Society, leading viewers on a tour of AHS's museum. Follow the link above to watch it.
At noon on Thursday, August 28th, the Pima County Public Library is presenting Archaeology and Cultures of Arizona.
In this program archaeologist Allen Dart summarizes and interprets the archaeology of Arizona from the earliest human occupations through the late prehistoric period. Please join him for a discussion of Arizona archaeology, connections between archaeology and history, and how the earliest peoples relate to the Native American, European, Mexican, African, and Asian peoples who have formed our state's more recent history. This program was made possible by the Arizona Humanities Council, funded by the Arizona Humanities Council Speakers Bureau. Through the Arizona Humanities Council's support for programs like this one, the people of Arizona benefit from federal funds allocated through the National Endowment for the Humanities.Noon on Thursday, August 28 in the Lower Level 1 Meeting Room of the Joel D. Valdez Main Library at 101 N. Stone Avenue. Download PDF Flyer
If this sounds interesting, check out Alan Dart's essay in Through Our Parents' Eyes Sabino Canyon: Our Desert Oasis, The Sabino Canyon Ruin Survey: What We Found
