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.

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

And now there are three! Patsy Lee's digital story is now available. Visit the Digital Stories page for David Tang, Jr., Gary Low, and Patsy Lee's digital stories. Each plays in QuickTime or iTunes. 

The talks, from which these digital stories are compiled, were part of Pima Community College's Discovering Southern Arizona program. Each speaker showed slides created from family photographs and told their families story - well, really a small part. David Tang, Jr., is a second generation Tucsonan. David's grandfather came to Tucson as a young man so David's talk represented three generations of Chinese Americans in Tucson. Gary Low's represented two generations and Patsy is a first generation Tucsonan.

We will have videos of their entire talks available soon on the Promise of Gold Mountain website in the video section. It is being encoded for QT streaming.

Synopsis: "Evident in ornamentation, architectural forms and urban open spaces of the Spanish Colonial period, the influences of Islamic cultures are still present in the American Southwest."

Tucson's 11th el Día de San Juan (St. John's) Fiesta. All of our Tucson community is invited to attend this event:

Date: Tuesday, June 24
Time:5 pm until 10 pm
Location: West Congress St. at the Santa Cruz River (south side, west bank).

For those you who have not visited Flickr, it's a Web 2.0 site where you can host your pictures (images, actually). Without putting you not techies to sleep, it gained popularity in part due to letting the users define the keywords (tags) describing their images.

What I find so interesting, and is likely as interesting to anyone involved with Tucson history and culture is Vanishing Tucson. Seems it is a group of people dedicated to capturing Tucson landmarks before the wrecking ball reducing them to a memory. Check out the images on Flickr, read boingboing's "Flickr photoset of last days of Tucson minature golf course," and a backstory blog entry. Maybe you'll even want to post a comment.

While exploring ways to present The Hellbox issues in the context of Tucson's unique Tucson Press Club (TPC) I discovered that James. F. Cooper, a columnist for the Tucson Citizen decades ago had published, posthumously, a book about the TPC called The Bar Is Open: The history of Tucson Press Club, 1944-1991. Having a digital copy of this book would be a great addition to the planned website and would be a useful addition to TOPE's e-books section.

Thanks again to the Internet and the Web, we received ten of the Tucson Press Club's (TPC) annual The Hellbox. Hopefully, we'll be able to determine if there are any rights and permissions to pursue before creating a new website about the TPC and, in particular, these annuals.

The Hellbox issues were sent by Tyler St.Mark in California who wrote that his "parents, Marklan & Beverly Manning, were active members of the TPC during the 50's and early 60's and even appeared in some of the annual Gridiron Shows. My siblings and I grew up knowing many of the club's prominent members including "Uncle Jess" (Riggles)."

TPC ended in 1991, as far as I can tell. The Hellbox and its annual Gridiron show are unique to Tucson's 20th century history. We hope to bring it to the Web for students and community members to appreciate.