Community Calendar

Bring seeds, swap seeds, and meet other growers in our community!

This event is free and will have family activities. (You do not have to bring seeds to participate.)

All Ages

To request a reasonable accommodation for any type of disability, please call 928-213-2330. Three days prior notice is requested.

Look through boxes of unsorted donations and see what you find! Pay the same low price of $2 for hardcovers and $1 for paperbacks.

To request a reasonable accommodation for any type of disability, please call 928-213-2330. Three days prior notice is requested.

Spanish colonialism succeeded in part by co-opting Indigenous knowledge, resources, and infrastructure—including methods for navigating difficult and dangerous terrain unfamiliar to the colonizers. A prime example is the 1775–1776 overland expedition from the Sonoran missions to the Pacific Coast led by Captain Juan Bautista de Anza, launched to claim and colonize the San Francisco Bay, then a remote harbor in Alta California critical to Spain’s expanding presence in the Americas. In recognition of the expedition’s 250th anniversary, this presentation shares findings from recent archaeological investigations that reveal how the expedition relied on an established Indigenous trail network to successfully traverse the Sonoran Desert—arguably the most challenging segment of the five-month, 1,800-mile journey.

Aaron M. Wright is a preservation anthropologist with Archaeology Southwest, a nonprofit organization based in Tucson, Arizona. He specializes in the cultural landscapes of southern and western Arizona, focusing on the Huhugam and Patayan archaeological traditions. Dr. Wright’s scholarship and service have earned multiple honors, including most recently the Arizona Archaeological Society’s Professional Archaeologist Award (2023) and the American Rock Art Research Association’s Castleton Award (2025). His book-length publications include Leaving Mesa Verde: Peril and Change in the Thirteenth-Century Southwest (2010, co-edited with Tim Kohler and Mark Varien), the award-winning Religion on the Rocks: Hohokam Rock Art, Ritual Practice, and Social Transformation (2014), The Great Bend of the Gila: Contemporary Native American Connections to an Ancestral Landscape (2016, with Maren Hopkins), and his most recent work, Sacred Southwestern Landscapes: Archaeologies of Religious Ecology (2024).

Join our weekly writing group to practice your writing habit!

With the use of prompts, time allotments, and group sharing, Wily Writers will learn more about their writing and support others along the way.

Constructive and positive feedback is welcome and encouraged! Our ultimate goal is to make writing more accessible and approachable for everyone at any level. You bring your writing tools and we'll bring the fun!

To request a reasonable accommodation for any type of disability, please call 928-213-2330. Three days prior notice is requested.

Discuss the stories of the Southwest with the Southwest Reads book club on the fourth Wednesday of every other month!

This month's read is The Harvey Girls: Women who Opened the West by Lesley Poling-Kempes.

From the 1880s to the 1950s, the Harvey Girls went west to work in Fred Harvey's restaurants along the Santa Fe railway. At a time when there were "no ladies west of Dodge City and no women west of Albuquerque," they came as waitresses, but many stayed and settled, founding the struggling cattle and mining towns that dotted the region. Interviews, historical research, and photographs help re-create the Harvey Girl experience. The accounts are personal, but laced with the history the women lived: the dust bowl, the depression, and anecdotes about some of the many famous people who ate at the restaurants--Teddy Roosevelt, Shirley Temple, Bob Hope, to name a few.

Pick up a copy of this month's book from the Downtown Library Information Desk. Email libraryprograms@flagstaffpubliclibrary.org or call 928-213-2332 for additional information.

To request a reasonable accommodation for any type of disability, please call 928-213-2330. Three days prior notice is requested.

Celebrate the freedom to read with the Banned Book Club. In March, we're reading The Perks of Being a Wallflower. We will discuss not only the book itself, but also the concepts of free speech and censorship as we encounter them in the modern world.

Synopsis

This is the story of what it's like to grow up in high school. More intimate than a diary, Charlie's letters are singular and unique, hilarious and devastating. We may not know where he lives. We may not know to whom he is writing. All we know is the world he shares. Caught between trying to live his life and trying to run from it puts him on a strange course through uncharted territory. The world of first dates and mixed tapes, family dramas and new friends. The world of sex, drugs, and The Rocky Horror Picture Show, when all one requires is that perfect song on that perfect drive to feel infinite.

To request a reasonable accommodation for any type of disability, please call 928-213-2330. Three days prior notice is requested.

Join us for the second talk in the “Beyond Europe” portion of the lecture series by the Martin-Springer Institute: Holocaust and Beyond: Weaponizing Hunger

Thursday March 26 at 7 PM

The Indispensability of Gender: Starvation in Contemporary Contexts

Liberal Arts Building, Room 120

with Bridget Conley, World Peace Foundation & Research Professor at Tufts University

#MSI #CALisHisrtory #CALisCulture

How did man’s best friend come to exist? This family-friendly lecture will take you through the timeline of early coexistence between humans and canines to some of the most iconic pets of Arizona’s past. You will get to hear about the efforts of Yavapai County’s Human Society’s mission to protect our favorite companions today. Afterwards, you’ll have the chance to meet and greet a few furry friends.

The Sharlot Hall Museum is excited to partner with the Yavapai Humane Society (YHS) for a special lecture and pet adoption day!

Since 1972, Yavapai Humane Society has been finding homes for thousands of unwanted or lost dogs and cats that come to us each year. Through the dedication of our volunteers, staff, and with the support of the community we were able to provide boarding and veterinary care for over 2,000 dogs and cats during the last 12 months. We also reunited 514 lost dogs and cats with their families and found loving homes for another 1,228 unwanted animals. Through our 2nd Chance Medical and our Safety Net Programs, we provided emergency boarding, pet food, and veterinary care for hundreds of pets whose owners had experienced unforeseen medical or drastic life changing circumstances. These positive outcomes reflect more than statistics—they represent cherished and changed lives, strengthened families, and provide undeniable proof of the trust this community places in our mission which is “To promote and protect the health, safety and welfare of companion animals”. You can learn more about YHS by visiting our website at www.yavapaihumane.org

Bailey Cacciatore is the Curator of Education at Sharlot Hall Museum. As someone who grew up rescuing dogs and cats, and currently has adopted pets of her own, she wanted to explore the history of companionship between humans and animals.

Established in 1997, the Northern Arizona Book Festival (NOAZBF) is a literary nonprofit based out of Kinłání (aka the bordertown of Flagstaff, Arizona). It coordinates readings, panels, workshops, contests, and more that reflect the literary interests and cultural issues that define life in the Colorado Plateau region of Northern Arizona. As part of its regular programming, the NOAZBF includes the Indigenous Writers’ Symposium, Young Readers’ Festival, and Flagstaff Off-the-Page (FLG OTP, new in Fall 2021). Throughout the year, the NOAZBF collaborates with and/or supports the Northern Arizona Playwriting Showcase, the Northern Arizona University MFA Program, Cinder Skies Reading Series, Juniper House Reading Series, Flagstaff Poetry Slam, Northern Arizona University VisualDesignLab, the McCallister Program for Community, Culture and Environment, Red Ink.,Thin Air Magazine, Carbon Copy, Curios, Eggtooth Editions, Tolsun Books, Salina Bookshelf, Abalone Mountain Press, Outspokin’ and Bookish, Poetry Out Loud, Kin’Lani Bordertown Dormitory, the National Park Service, Northern Arizona Museum, and Bright Side Bookshop.

Established in 1997, the Northern Arizona Book Festival (NOAZBF) is a literary nonprofit based out of Kinłání (aka the bordertown of Flagstaff, Arizona). It coordinates readings, panels, workshops, contests, and more that reflect the literary interests and cultural issues that define life in the Colorado Plateau region of Northern Arizona. As part of its regular programming, the NOAZBF includes the Indigenous Writers’ Symposium, Young Readers’ Festival, and Flagstaff Off-the-Page (FLG OTP, new in Fall 2021). Throughout the year, the NOAZBF collaborates with and/or supports the Northern Arizona Playwriting Showcase, the Northern Arizona University MFA Program, Cinder Skies Reading Series, Juniper House Reading Series, Flagstaff Poetry Slam, Northern Arizona University VisualDesignLab, the McCallister Program for Community, Culture and Environment, Red Ink.,Thin Air Magazine, Carbon Copy, Curios, Eggtooth Editions, Tolsun Books, Salina Bookshelf, Abalone Mountain Press, Outspokin’ and Bookish, Poetry Out Loud, Kin’Lani Bordertown Dormitory, the National Park Service, Northern Arizona Museum, and Bright Side Bookshop.