Community Calendar

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.

Join one of our knowledgeable staff members or trained volunteers for a guided walk through The Arboretum’s 200 acres of living collections. Set in the remarkable transition zone between the Colorado Plateau’s pine forests and high desert, each walk offers a close look at the native plants, pollinators, and ecological relationships that define this rare landscape.

Whether you’re a curious first-time visitor or a returning nature enthusiast, our naturalists bring the garden to life with seasonal stories, conservation science, and a genuine love for the plants of the Southwest.

What to expect

Seasonal plant highlights — wildflowers, medicinal herbs, rare natives
Pollinators, birds, and wildlife activity across the garden
Conservation context — why native plants matter on the Colorado Plateau
Intimate group experience — open to all ages and knowledge levels

Join us for a live virtual* interactive talk with Geologist Marcia Bjornerud, Author of our first Environmental Book Club pick: Timefulness.

*Dr. Bjornerud will be calling in virtually, but attendance is in-person.

About Dr. Bjornerud:

Marcia Bjornerud is a structural geologist whose research focuses on the physics of earthquakes and mountain building. She combines field-based studies of bedrock geology with quantitative models of rock mechanics. She has done research in high arctic Norway (Svalbard) and Canada (Ellesmere Island), as well as mainland Norway, Italy, New Zealand, and the Lake Superior region. Bjornerud is a Fellow of the Geological Society of America and has been a Fulbright Senior Scholar at the University of Oslo, Norway and University of Otago, New Zealand. She is a contributing writer to The New Yorker, Wired, the Wall Street Journal and the Los Angeles Times and author of several books including Timefulness: How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World (2018); Reading the Rocks: The Autobiography of the Earth (2005); Geopedia: A Brief Compendium of Geologic Curiosities (2022); and most recently Turning to Stone: Discovering the Subtle Wisdom of Rocks (2024). Timefulness was longlisted for the 2019 PEN/E.O.Wilson Prize for Literary Science Writing, and was a finalist for the LA Times Book Prize in Science and Technology. Turning to Stone won the 2025 John Burroughs Medal for natural history writing.

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

Join one of our knowledgeable staff members or trained volunteers for a guided walk through The Arboretum’s 200 acres of living collections. Set in the remarkable transition zone between the Colorado Plateau’s pine forests and high desert, each walk offers a close look at the native plants, pollinators, and ecological relationships that define this rare landscape.

Whether you’re a curious first-time visitor or a returning nature enthusiast, our naturalists bring the garden to life with seasonal stories, conservation science, and a genuine love for the plants of the Southwest.

What to expect

Seasonal plant highlights — wildflowers, medicinal herbs, rare natives
Pollinators, birds, and wildlife activity across the garden
Conservation context — why native plants matter on the Colorado Plateau
Intimate group experience — open to all ages and knowledge levels

Join us for a talk with Dr. Melodia Kao, Astrophysicist and Researcher at Lowell Observatory!

About Dr. Kao:

Dr. Kao joined Lowell Observatory in 2024, focusing on exo-aurorae and brown dwarf magnetospheres to understand exoplanet magnetism. She uses major U.S. facilities like the Very Large Array, the Keck Telescope, the Hubble Space Telescope, and the James Webb Space Telescope. She enjoys designing experiments, teaching workshops, and public speaking.

Outside of research, Dr. Kao leads backpacking trips and enjoys running, dancing, and reading. She believes that science skills apply in unexpected places and dedicates herself to teaching others how to find surprising connections between different fields. She co-created the Wilderness Astronomy course at ASU and teaches scientists how to dance, exploring leadership and team building through her guide work.

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

Join one of our knowledgeable staff members or trained volunteers for a guided walk through The Arboretum’s 200 acres of living collections. Set in the remarkable transition zone between the Colorado Plateau’s pine forests and high desert, each walk offers a close look at the native plants, pollinators, and ecological relationships that define this rare landscape.

Whether you’re a curious first-time visitor or a returning nature enthusiast, our naturalists bring the garden to life with seasonal stories, conservation science, and a genuine love for the plants of the Southwest.

What to expect

Seasonal plant highlights — wildflowers, medicinal herbs, rare natives
Pollinators, birds, and wildlife activity across the garden
Conservation context — why native plants matter on the Colorado Plateau
Intimate group experience — open to all ages and knowledge levels

Michael F. Blake, a two-time Emmy-winning makeup artist, spent sixty years in the film and television industry before his retirement in 2018. His credits include Westworld, X-Men: First Class, Spider-Man 3, Independence Day, Tough Guys, Soapdish, Police Academy II, The Munster’s Revenge, and Happy Days.

As a child actor, Michael appeared in such television shows as Adam-12, The Lucy Show, The Munsters, Bonanza, Kung Fu, The Red Skelton Show, and Marcus Welby, M.D. A respected film scholar, with a master’s degree from UCLA, Michael’s books on silent screen legend Lon Chaney are the definitive works on the actor. His trilogy served as the basis for the Turner Classic Movies documentary, Lon Chaney: A Thousand Faces (2000), in which he was a special consultant and on-camera interviewee. Michael’s books, Code of Honor: The Making of
High Noon, Shane, and The Searchers and Hollywood and the O.K. Corral, have been recognized as important works about the Western film genre.

The Cowboy President: The American West and The Making of Theodore Roosevelt was named by True West Magazine as Best Political Biography for 2018, and won the Will Rogers Gold Medallion Award for Best Biography/Memoir. He followed that up with Go West, Mr. President: Theodore Roosevelt’s 1903 Great Loop Tour, an insightful look into a little-known aspect of the president’s life.

Admission is $15 for non-members and $10 for museum members.

Please RSVP to Katherine.Bartke@SharlotHallMuseum.org

Vroom! The bookmobile is back! The County Bookmobile is a mobile library that travels throughout Coconino County. On the first Tuesday of each month, it stops at Lake Mary Country Store 9:30-10:30am (from May through October), at Mormon Lake Lodge 11-11:30am (from May through October), at the Blue Ridge Ranger Station 12:30-1:15pm (from May through November), and at Starlight Pines Community Center 1:30-2:15pm (from May through November).

Bookmobile materials can be checked out with a Flagstaff Library card and have a loan period of one month. Materials may be returned to either one of our Flagstaff libraries or dropped off during a visit to the bookmobile.

We try to reach those outlying areas of our county that may not otherwise have access to library services. At times we change our routes and stops to accommodate patron need.

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

Vroom! The bookmobile is back! The County Bookmobile is a mobile library that travels throughout Coconino County. On the first Tuesday of each month, it stops at Lake Mary Country Store 9:30-10:30am (from May through October), at Mormon Lake Lodge 11-11:30am (from May through October), at the Blue Ridge Ranger Station 12:30-1:15pm (from May through November), and at Starlight Pines Community Center 1:30-2:15pm (from May through November).

Bookmobile materials can be checked out with a Flagstaff Library card and have a loan period of one month. Materials may be returned to either one of our Flagstaff libraries or dropped off during a visit to the bookmobile.

We try to reach those outlying areas of our county that may not otherwise have access to library services. At times we change our routes and stops to accommodate patron need.

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

Vroom! The bookmobile is back! The County Bookmobile is a mobile library that travels throughout Coconino County. On the second Tuesday of each month, it stops at Aspire Transitional Care 9:30-10:30am, at Flagstaff Senior Meadows 11am-12:30pm, at Flagstaff Veterans Home 12:40-1:40pm, and at Sunset Crater National Monument 2:30-3pm.

Bookmobile materials can be checked out with a Flagstaff Library card and have a loan period of one month. Materials may be returned to either one of our Flagstaff libraries or dropped off during a visit to the bookmobile.

We try to reach those outlying areas of our county that may not otherwise have access to library services. At times we change our routes and stops to accommodate patron need.

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