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| Tickets: $5 each |
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| Season Tickets: $50 each |
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Curtain Time: 7 p.m.
(Doors open one hour in advance) |
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Location: Performing Arts Center
Apache Junction High School Campus
2525 S. Ironwood Drive |
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Arizona Lecture Series programs are presented by
the Apache Junction Unified School District
Community Services Office. |
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For more information call:
480-982-1110 ext. 2014 |
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Monday, January 7, 2008 |
| Brad Dimock — Down the Colorado River |
| Brad Dimock has spent the last three and a half decades as a
boatman on the world’s rivers. His area of expertise is the
Colorado River. He has run boats as primitive as Major
Powell’s 1869 wooden craft to the modern motor rafts,
and everything in between. Join Dimock on this odyssey
highlighting the many wilder, lesser-known adventures
in a procession of fascinating boats guided by some
truly extreme boaters through the 100-plus years of
Colorado River navigation. |
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Monday, January 14, 2008 |
| Zonnie Gorman — Navajo Code Talkers |
| Zonnie Gorman truly “grew up with heroes” as the daughter
of Dr. Carl Gorman, who was not only a highly respected
educator, artist and consultant, but one of the original 29
Navajo Code Talkers who played such a vital role in the Pacific
operations during WW II. Ms. Gorman is a recognized author,
historian, lecturer and consultant on the Navajo Code Talkers. |
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Monday, January 21, 2008 |
| Madison Walker — Arizona’s Cowboy Storyteller |
| Madison Walker is a professional storyteller, whose love of
poetry, drama, and teaching spans a career of more than 30
years in theater, films, broadcasting, and in the classroom.
He is the embodiment of Nat Love, also known as Deadwood
Dick, who was an African-American cowboy who could ride,
shoot, rope and rodeo with the best of the West. Join us as
Nat Love steps out of the pages of history and onto our stage,
courtesy of Madison Walker. |
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Monday, January 28, 2008 |
| Wyatt Earp — Doc Holliday |
| Who better to tell the story of Doc Holliday than the great
grandnephew of the legendary Wyatt Earp who shares not only the
family resemblance, but also the name Wyatt Earp? Doc Holliday
was the West’s most famous dentist and his journey from one who
heals to one who kills is told by Earp as if Holliday was speaking
from a Colorado jail cell in 1882, just two months after he and
the Earps have fled Arizona Territory. The play was written by
Earp’s wife, Terry, and is based on the book Doc Holliday-A Family
Portrait by Karen Holliday Tanner. |
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Monday, February 4, 2008 |
| Marshall Trimble — Trimble’s Arizona Tales |
| Not only is Marshall Trimble the Official State Historian for Arizona,
he is an entertainer extraordinaire and the author of some 19 books.
Often called the “Will Rogers of Arizona,” this storyteller is a
frequent guest on stage, radio and television. His extensive
knowledge of Western and Arizona history, as well as his music
and humor, make him one of the state’s most colorful native sons
and one of its most popular speakers. |
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Monday, February 11, 2008 |
| Jack San Felice — The King of Arizona |
| Retired police captain, avid hiker, author and teacher Jack San
Felice tells the story of four prospectors who barely eked out a living
in the Arizona Territory frontier, fighting both fierce Apaches and
intense heat, who found a fortune in silver. Their discovery of the
“Silver King” mine served as a catalyst that enabled settlement of
east central Arizona Territory during the 1870s. |
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Monday, February 18, 2008 |
| Kip Culver — History of Eastern Arizona Railroad |
| Kip Culver will effectively tell the story of the Arizona Eastern
Railway which operated 135 miles of railroad between the two
small towns of Bowie and Miami, Arizona. The railroad served
the copper mining region of southeastern Arizona, the
agricultural Gila River Valley, and the east end of the
Phoenix Metro area. |
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Monday, February 25, 2008 |
| Todd Bostwick — The Lead Artifacts near the Silver Belle |
| Were Europeans in Tucson before Columbus arrived in the New World? The presence of more than two dozen lead objects
including crosses, crescents, batons, swords and spears found in a thick deposit of caliche at an old Spanish lime kiln seems to point
to that possibility, but was it hoax or fact? Todd Bostwick,
retired City of Phoenix Archeologist and ASU Faculty
Associate, will unravel the mystery of the lead artifacts. |
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Monday, March 3, 2008 |
| Jim Turner — Oatman Massacre |
| This was a story on which many Western movies have been based.
A family on their way to California makes some bad choices and
all but three end up dead at the hands of the Apache. Those who
lived were Lorenzo, 14, Olive, 13, and Mary Ann, age 7. Lorenzo
was left for dead, and the two girls were taken captive and
enslaved. Jim Turner will relate their tragic story and their fate
in the Arizona desert in the late 1800s. |
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Monday, March 10, 2008 |
| John Westerlund — Warriors All |
| In the spring of 1942, the US Army needed 8,000 workers for a
massive construction project 10 miles west of Flagstaff. Almost
immediately, 4,000 Hopi and Navajo workers and their family
members signed on. They left the reservations for good-paying
jobs in deplorable conditions. John S. Westerlund, retired from
the US Army and currently a seasonal park ranger with the
National Park Service, outlines the difficulties and successes of
organizing this huge labor force in the dawn of the Second World War. |
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Monday, March 17, 2008 |
| Linda Baker — Wham Payroll Robberies |
Linda Baker brings to life one of Arizona’s great mysteries, the
Wham Payroll Robbery. It happened just after midday on May
11, 1889 when Paymaster Major Joseph Washington Wham and
his escort were ambushed approximately 15 miles west of
Pima in the Gila River Valley. Following a 30-minute firefight,
bandits made off with more than $28,000 in gold and silver
coins. Questions of guilt or innocence abound and, after more
than 100 years, no one yet knows what happened to the money. |
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Monday, March 24, 2008 |
| David Gillette — Mystery of the Sickle-Claw Dinosaur |
| With the surprising discovery in 2000 of sickle-claw dinosaurs on the
Colorado Plateau, Museum of Northern Arizona paleontologists
encountered one puzzle after another. How did this feathered, 1-ton
plant-eating relative of T. Rex make a living with its three Edward
Scissorhands sickle-claws and weak skull with puny teeth? David
Gillette has some answers that are as mind-bending as the questions. |
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Monday, March 31, 2008 |
| Jim Cook — The History of Lying and Liars in Arizona |
| Jim Cook calls himself the “Official State Liar of Arizona.”
Cook, a former writer and editor at the Arizona Republic, has
forgotten more about Arizona history than any 10 newcomers
ever will remember. A native Arizonan, he admits that he was born
a long time ago. “When I was a kid, those trees at the Petrified Forest
were still alive and Montezuma still lived in Montezuma’s Castle.”
He’ll discuss, tongue-in-cheek, subjects such as Arizona’s Truth in
Lying Law, the Lost Dutchman Sawmill and the Spam Olympics. |
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