Welcome to Lecture Series

Arizona History Museum, 949 E 2nd ST. Tucson AZ 85719
10:00am - 11:30am
Free parking in the garage at the northeast corner of N. Euclid Ave. and E. 2nd St. Use E. 2nd St. entrance.
$15 ($12.00 AHS Members)

September 11, 2010
Thornton Wilder’s Arizona Days
Tom Miller, Award-winning Author

In 1962, Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Thornton Wilder’s car broke down during a trip to the Southwest. Eighteen months later, he returned east, his literary skills re-energized. Miller’s presentation explores Wilder’s Arizona sojourn, showing its importance in his literary life and in America’s literature.

October 16, 2010
Frank Lloyd Wright and the Southwest
Arnold Roy, Instructor, Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture

Frank Lloyd Wright’s love affair with Arizona began while consulting on the Biltmore Hotel. A decade later he built his winter camp, Taliesin West, and began designing homes and public buildings. Roy, who worked with him, illustrates how Wright merged the colors, textures, and mood of the desert to create a uniquely Arizonan style of architecture.

November 20, 2010
Celluloid Pueblo: Western Ways Film Service and the Invention of the Postwar Southwest
Jennifer Jenkins, Associate Professor, University of Arizona

View rare film reels from the Western Ways film collection, archived at the Arizona Historical Society. Dr. Jenkins examines this time capsule of the Southwest, and northern Mexico from the late 1930s to the late 1960s.

December 4, 2010
The Eagle and the Archaeologists: Charles Lindbergh and the 1929 Southwest Aerial Photographic Survey
Erik Berg , Award-winning Historian and Author

Famed aviator Charles Lindbergh is best known for his flight across the Atlantic in the 'Spirit of Saint Louis.'  Few people realize that he also played an important role in archaeology. Berg’s presentation tells the story of the Lindbergh's adventures and features photographs of Arizona’s famous landmarks and small prehistoric sites.  

For more information or to register, please contact Emily Spargo-Guererro at (520) 617-1153, email esg@azhs.gov or print the PDF Flyer.