Speakers Program - Desert Rats, River Runners and Canyon Crawlers: Four Arizona Explorers
NOTE NEW DATE & TIME MAY 12th 2:00 - 3:30pm
Francisco Garces, a Franciscan friar, arrived in what is now Arizona in 1768. Assigned to the church at San Xavier del Bac south of present-day Tucson, he traveled widely throughout Arizona and California, charting overland routes that later travelers would follow. Near where Garces would meet his death in 1781, an American soldier named Joseph Christmas Ives embarked on an arduous expedition up the Colorado River, one of the first Americans to see what he called the Big Canyon. A dozen years later, the river-running explorer John Wesley Powell would name it the Grand Canyon, and a hundred years after that a writer named Edward Abbey would explore the canyon country, writing classic books such as the Desert Solitaire and Black Sun. In this talk, Gregory McNamee will look back on the accomplishments of these four explorers, each of whom shaped our understanding of this wild, sometimes challenging place called Arizona.
Gregory McNamee is a writer, editor, photographer, and publisher. He is the author or title page editor of 40 books and of more than 7,500 articles and other publications. He is the editor of Zocalo, an arts and culture magazine published in Tucson. He is also a contributing editor to the Encyclopedia Britannica. McNamee writes regularly for many other journals and sites, and his work has appeared in such venues as Science, The Washington Post, Outside, Smithsonian, AARP and CNN.com. He is a research fellow at the Southwest Center of the University of Arizona.
Date and Time
Thursday May 12, 2022
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM MST
NEW DATE: Thursday, May 12th 2:00 - 3:30 pm
Location
Fountain Hills Community Center
13001 N La Montana Drive
Fountain Hills, AZ 85268
Fees/Admission
Free
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Community Center - 480-816-5200
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