Life on the frontier was hard, both physically and emotionally, and survival often depended on new settlers learning to forage off the land by hunting, fishing and gathering berries, nuts and edible bulbs. Discover how pioneers celebrated Thanksgiving!
On July 9, 1946, a Boeing B-17G “Flying Fortress” bomber, converted into a transport plane, crashed into Mount Tom in Holyoke, MA, killing all 25 on board. Aboard were 15
Within days of his inauguration as President of the United States in March 1933, Franklin D. Roosevelt ordered his secretaries to create a program that would provide employment for as many as a quarter of a million men. He named it the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC).
In recognizing those who serve and have served to protect our country’s freedoms, Sharlot Hall Museum will offer free admission to ALL active duty military, retired and veterans on Wednesday, November 11, 2020.
Take a photographic tour through Fort Whipple as it was during Prescott’s earliest days! Fire up your imagination and climb into your buggy on a bright Sunday morning in summer…
“Things are waking up – some fine young men who are voters now but may, in all probability, hold some of the county or state offices in the future, ask me to tell them just where I stand in politics. ‘Because,’ said one of them, ‘it seems wonderful to know there is anyone left who dares to fight for what they think is right.'”
