I'm sure you are familiar with Bonnie Henry's column in the Arizona Daily Star. On Monday the 30th she wrote "Book tells enticing story of wealthy husband-killer." This is about Patricia Stephenson's new book, Trial and Triumph, The Life and Accomplishments of Louise Foucar Marshall. The Star provides articles for free up to a week after they've been published so you have until the 5th to follow the above link to read it.
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Looking for something different? Check out Through Our Parents' Eyes newest site, The Hellbox. The Hellbox was the Tucson Press Club's annual publication accompanying its Gridiron Show. The Hellbox is quite a time piece - our first issue is from 1960 and our last is 1994.
Casey Ontiveros created the site. Let him know what you think. Read the info on the homepage to learn a little about the Tucson Press Club, its Gridiron Show and how we acquired these annuals.
Today is Cinco de Mayo. Watch Big Jim Griffith's Arizona Illustrated segment explaining the southern Arizona tradition with Cinco de Mayo [MP4 video] About two minutes into the video, Jim explains the corrido about the defeat of Maximilian and his empress, Carlota. Jim tells us how Carlota stayed in Europe and went mad. Another part of the story with a southern Arizona tradition - and a Learning Technologies tradition - is this. Carlota was traveling around Europe trying to raise money in support of Maximilian. The story goes that when she appeared before Pope Pius IX, instead of giving her funds the Pope gave her an ivory crucifix.
Guess where that crucifix is today. It is in the Baptistry at St. Philip's In The Hills church and our website featuring the church's extraordinary art collection. See Carlota's Cross. [only accessible through WebAuth. ]
One of the good things about the UA's Christmas/New Year's break is that you get uninterrupted time to work on projects that have been in limbo. Along with the WWII New Guinea nose art noted in a previous entry, I was able to get Tom Marshall's The Burro '03 up as a Web exhibit.
The Burro was the UA annual back in 1903 and is one of the artifacts in Patricia Stephenson's collection of materials, photos, and memorabilia left to her mother by Louise Foucar Marshall back in 1954. Tom was a UA student that year and is found in two Burro photos and mentioned in an article chronicling the year's activities. Visit the Web version of the 1903 Burro to (virtually) experience the UA and college life in Tucson roughly 105 years ago. You'll find photos and sketches of campus, a "brief history" of the University, read student "literary" works, and see ads placed by local businesses such as L. Zeckendorf & Co. Department Store, Martin's Drug, Fred Ronstadt, and Crescent Cigar Co. It's a fun trip down Memory Lane.
Almost all of the text was created by OCR so if you spot a typo, please let me know via email: stuartg@email.arizona.edu.
If you've visited the Military Aircraft Nose Art website to see the new images sent by Corporal Crump in Australia, the take a look at this new entry on the Through Our Parents' Eyes blog. I found the story of the missing/identified Jolly Rogers' crew pretty interesting.
tail insignia of the JollyRogers
If you are interested in Tucson history or looking at historical photographs, subscribe to the Through Our Parents' Eyes blog. I've been adding updates to it about current and on-going projects and writing about new objects that we've received. If you know someone who is a middle or high school teaching, alert them to the site. Through Our Parents' Eyes has a wealth of resources for teachers, including out-of-the-box curriculum modules.
Spring semester several students in a technical writing class had a project to develop a student handbook and community handbook for Through Our Parents' Eyes. Unfortunately, their work was incomplete, incorrect in places, and overall useless. However, it motivated me to get some pages together.
Last week days I put up student handbook and community handbook sections. The idea behind each is to give students and community visitors, respectively, a place to go for a guide to using Through Our Parents' Eyes. Check them and send along any feedback (and typos) in email.
Through Our Parents' Eyes is pretty large at this point so it's a challenge to figure out what to leave in, what to leave out these sorts of resources.
I got an idea over the weekend to set up an RSS feed to a Through Our Parents' Eyes page that announces additions and updates to the site. Low and behold, it worked! If you go to the site, you will spot the ubiquitous orange XML icon that is seemingly used by anyone pushing out an RSS feed. In this case, you can grab the URL to plug into your aggregator or, even better, use Firefox and just click on the little orange icon that shows up on the Announcements page that lets you subscribe to it as a Live Bookmark.
If you've not been on the Through Our Parents' Eyes website lately, check out the most recently redesigned sites. The easiest way is on the Recently Redesigned ... sites page. This weekend I got the new Sabino Canyon: Our Desert Oasis site done. Andrew Bareham, the LTC student assistant working on the graphics for the new designs, did a nice job creating the banner image. He is working on the Tucson Ronstadt Family site at this time.
