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Patricia Stephenson has published a new work, Trial and Triumph: LIfe and Accomplishments of Louise Foucar Marshall Her First 67 Years. If you enjoy local history I'm sure you will like this book. Parts of it are familiar from our websites developed from Patricia's two previous books Tom Marshall's Tucson and The University Neighborhood. There is new content, particularly in the area leading up to and surrounding Ms. Foucar Marshall shooting Mr. Marshall. If you are interested in acquiring a copy, send an email to pntseyes@email.arizona.edu and we'll pass it on to Patricia.

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

This is nice to see from the Pima County Public Library. "A Walk to the Library"

Anne Tartaul, a native Tucson who resides in California, has been a valuable contributor to Through Our Parents' Eyes. She recently found an article about Harold Bell Wright that appeared in the November 9, 2000, Tucson Weekly -- "The Novelist Who Shaped The City: Harold Bell Wright's Tucson Legacy Combines Eastward Sprawl With Desert Passion."

Anne is the daughter of Oliver Drachman and niece of Rosemary Taylor. Rosemary Taylor wrote Chicken Every Sunday: My Life With Mother's Boarders (1943) and Ridin' the Rainbow (1944), two books in which she shares her childhood memories. Chicken Every Sunday was a huge bestseller in its time, selling over 1M copies and being made into a movie starring Dan Dailey, Celeste Holm, and Natalie Wood. (Patricia Stephenson once mentioned to me that you'd never know the story was supposed to be Tucson from watching the movie.)

Anne commented in her email that one of the reasons that the Weekly's article is interesting, is for its description of Harold Bell Wright's influence on the direction of growth in Tucson. There is mention of his desert home, depicted in a 1930s Ladies Home Journal article written by Rosemary Taylor. Check out the article and you can read more about Wright in Wikipedia.