Major League Baseball teams have been training in Arizona for more than a century, starting with sporadic training sessions and barnstorming games and evolving into the modern Cactus League. Join Arizona historian Kevin Schindler for this virtual presentation about the evolution of Cactus League Baseball in the Valley. Registration is required.
In this part one of a two a part series Luann Lennox of TequilaSnobs will walk you through the growing, harvesting, baking, making and aging of the Southwest’s favorite beverage—tequila! Did you know that the Mayas & Aztecs were the first to make a beverage from the great agave plant? Luann Lennox (your Tequila Conocedora) […]
Names have an origin and meaning. Throughout history, naming practices have varied around the world, and in recent history, some names have gone in and out of favor. In this workshop, participants will write about their own names, or the names of family members to explore what we know about them and how we feel […]
In this workshop, attendees will write questions for a conversation you would like to have with an ancestor. Some may even take the next step and invent a dialog with that person. For example, it could be a conversation with an ancestor who immigrated to the United States in the 1800’s. Or it could be […]
Ride the rails with historian David Doiron, as he shares his knowledge of Arizona’s railway system using historical photos, artifacts, and maps. Participants will be able to handle and examine relics of railroading, including a piece of rail from the Gold Spike ceremony at Promontory. Registration is required.
HD SOUTH welcomes Christopher Caseldine, Ph.D., Curator of Collections for the Center for Archaeology and Society Repository, to share the historical events that created the canals and waterways of the East Valley. Join us as we learn about the indigenous people who developed an irrigation system to provide water for their crops, and the early […]
Phoenix native Steve Hoza has worked in the museum field for the past 35 years. He is a recognized authority on the history of World War II in Arizona and has written extensively on the subject. He is an archivist and paper/book conservator at the Salt River Indian Community. Arizona was the home to 59 […]
Arizona was the home to 24 German prisoner of war camps during World War Two. Steve Hoza has spoken to hundreds of former POW’s, their guards and camp personnel, and presents a PowerPoint on the history of these camps. Included is the famous mass escape from Papago Park in December of 1944. There will be […]
Join HD SOUTH and Professor Emeritus Dr. John Craft, Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at ASU, for this exclusive look into the history of newspapers in Arizona. Did you know that there have been almost 1,800 newspapers listed in Arizona since the first was established in Tubac in 1859? Time travel back […]
Gilbert resident and US Navy veteran, Lucy Wong was born in Los Angeles and grew up behind her parent’s Chinese laundry in Los Angeles County. Lucy will share personal accounts of her family’s experiences working in an environment that is a unique and often untold part of American history. She will recount their achievements, struggles, […]
