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Untold Stories/Unsung Heroes (Podcast)

January 31, 2012 · All locations, podcasts, Tempe campus · Comments Off

Event promo ImageOn February 14, 2012 Arizona celebrates 100 years of statehood. ASU School of Theatre and Film
presents the play Untold Stories/Unsung Heroes as part of the Arizona Centennial Project New  Works Series  beginning February 10 at 7:30 in the Lyceum Theatre.

Director Pamela Sterling, professor at the School of Theatre and Film, joins Host Fred McIlvain to talk about the play and how it was put together. Joining them is Curatorial Museum Specialist Karrie Porter Brace to talk about the tie-in exhibit, Tell Your Story, in the Hayden Library Rotunda on the ASU Tempe campus. Karrie also talks about the archival images used in the play.

 
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Untold Stories/Unsung Heroes tells the most poetic, comedic and iconic stories that were unearthed over the past year by a dedicated team of ASU theatre students the stories were culled from thousands of archival sources as well as interviews with contemporary Arizonans including a group of centenarians from the Pioneer Village in Prescott and the students’ friends, neighbors and relatives.

The stories were woven into the new play, which is part of the Arizona Centennial Project New  Works Series and is an official selection of the Arizona Centennial Commemoration Project.  People who will be pictured in Untold/Unsung include: Lozen, Apache warrior; Soto Vasquez, founder of Teatro Carmen in Tucson; Elizabeth Hudson Smith an African American woman who independently owned and operated a hotel in Wickenburg; George W. Parsons, lawyer, banker, and citizen of Tombstone who had a bird’s eye view of the gunfight at the OK Corral; and Borislav Bogdanovich, artist and relative of film director Peter Bogdonavich.

Students have established a a Facebook Page where people can learn more about the state’s colorful figures, and a video clip series, Arizona 100 Stories, where students recount the stories they have uncovered during their research. Pre-show activities include Living Statues that come to life to import the stories of Arizonans.

Untold Stories/Unsung Heroes
Where: Lyceum Theatre, 901. S. Forest Mall, ASU Tempe campus.
When: Feb. 10- 11, 16-18 at 7:30 p.m.; Feb 12 and19 at 2 p.m.
Cost: $8–$16; Seniors, ASU faculty, staff and students receive special rates. Special discounts for groups available.
Public Contact: Herberger Institute box office, 480.965.6447
School of Theatre and Film. 480.965.5337
Info and Online Tickets

Tell Your Story Exhibit
Where: Hayden Library Rotunda (Lower Concourse)
When: February 6 – May 2012

Host: Fred McIlvain
Guests: Pamela Sterling and Karrie Porter Brace
Episode 117
Running Time: 16:53

ASU Generations: The Normal School Years, 1885-1900 (Podcast)

November 1, 2010 · All locations, podcasts · Comments Off

A single teacher in a four room school house started the nation’s largest public university? Take a trip back 125 years to 1885 and the founding of ASU as a tiny normal school. University Archivist Rob Spindler and Curatorial/Museum Specialist Karrie Porter Brace discuss the Fall 2010 Hayden Library exhibit TNS 125 ASU on the anniversary of the university’s founding as the Territorial Normal School.

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They will also talk about the founding fathers of ASU such as Charles Trumbull Hayden, John Armstrong, James McClintock, and George Wilson. Discover the boundaries of the original twenty acre campus shown on a hand drawn plat map. See the courses taken and the grades achieved by students in 1896. Karrie and Rob reveal where the first unofficial student dormitory stands, how Old Main was on the cutting edge of technology in the Old West, and how ASU began it’s 125 year journey to become the New American University.
The exhibit TNS 125 ASU runs through December 2010.

For more information on the history of Arizona State University visit The New ASU Story.

(MP3 and other formats also available)

Host: Fred McIlvain
Guests: Rob Spindler, Karrie Porter Brace
Episode 109
Running Time: 22:49

One Book AZ: The Trunk Murderess by Jana Bommersbach

April 9, 2010 · All locations · Comments Off

bommersbachApril is the month for all Arizonans to participate in the One Book Arizona Program.  This year the book The Trunk Murderess by Jana Bommersbach is the selection for adult readers.  This book outlines the case of Winnie Ruth Judd, one of the most sensationalized cases in the history of Phoenix. Judd, who died in 1998 at the age of 93, was the notorious “Trunk Murderess” of 1931 caught in Los Angeles transporting the remains of her two female roommates in a set of trunks from Arizona by train. Speculations and conspiracy theories have developed over the years involving her relationships with local celebrities, politicians, and business men. Regardless, by the time of her release she had served one of the longest sentences in the history of any criminal in the United States.

The Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing and the Department of English at Arizona State University are sponsoring a Question and Answer session with Jana Bommersbach, author of The Trunk Murderess.  This event will be held on Thursday April 22, at 11:30am at the Piper Writers House on ASU’s Tempe campus. Copies of The Trunk Murderess will be available for sale at the event.

To learn more about about the case of Winnie Ruth Judd, check out the Library Channel’s classic podcast, “Murder and Mayhem:  The Strange Saga of Winnie Ruth Judd.”  While the exhibit that accompanied this discussion is no longer on display, the photographs are part of the Arizona Historical Foundation‘s collection, located on the 4th floor of Hayden Library on the Tempe campus.  The Foundation is open to the public Monday-Friday from 8am-6pm.  For more information please contact the Arizona Historical Foundation at 480.965.3283.

The Personal and Political Papers of Senator Barry M Goldwater (Podcast)

August 12, 2009 · All locations, Architecture Library, Downtown Phoenix campus, Music Library, Noble Library, podcasts, Polytechnic campus, Tempe campus, West campus · Comments Off

Goldwater PapersPhotographer, amateur radio operator, politician, adventurer, outdoorsman, humanitarian, presidential candidate, and father are just a few things to describe the life and career of Senator Barry M. Goldwater.

In this episode Fred McIlvain talks with Arizona Historical Foundation archivists Linda Whitaker, Susan Irvin and Rebekah Tabah on the debut of the Personal and Political Papers of Senator Barry M. Goldwater after 5 years of heavy lifting (literally and figuratively) processing the collection.

When Barry Goldwater founded the Arizona Historical Foundation nearly 50 years ago, the last thing he would have expected is to find his papers in disarray. It is the ultimate irony, that a man who saved everything for posterity, would leave a collection requiring tough interventions so that it could be fully processed and cataloged. For all practical purposes this collection had remained largely unprocessed and hidden confounding researchers worldwide.

 
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Collection Vital Statistics:
• 1180 linear feet (970 boxes)
• 8,000 un-mounted photographs, 1,500 negatives, 5,000 slides, 110 photo albums
• 107 news clipping scrapbooks (many digitized to searchable CDs)
• 480 reels of microfilm (all digitized to searchable CDs)
• 1,028 film reels, cassettes, and tapes
• 896 pages (finding aid)
• 1.14 million documents
• 125+ years (1880s-2008) of Arizona and U.S. History

Host:
Fred McIlvain

Guests:
Linda Whitaker
Susan Irvin
Rebekah Tabah

Episode 99
Running Time: 25:48

“Researching the Salt River Valley” Exhibit at Hayden Library

June 2, 2009 · Hayden Library, Noble Library, Tempe campus · Comments Off

Bird\'s EyeExhibit:  Researching the Salt River Valley

Location:  Hayden Library, Tempe campus

Available:  Summer 2009, during normal library hours

Description: The ASU Libraries Map Collection contains a wide variety of geospatial resources, including over 200,000 maps, aerial photographs, atlases, gazetteers, and CD-ROMs. While the collection focuses on Arizona, bordering states, and Mexico, well over half the collection materials depict areas from around the U.S. and the world. This exhibit, Researching the Salt River Valley, provides a sampling of the variety of materials available at the Map Collection for researching the history of the Salt River Valley.

The Map Collection is located on the third floor of the Noble Science and Engineering Library. Please visit us and explore our rich collection of maps and aerial photographs (summer Map Collection hours).

Image information: Bird’s Eye View of Phoenix, Maricopa Co., Arizona. Maps — FacsimilesPhoenix (Ariz.) — Aerial views Phoenix, Ariz., Ithaca, N.Y., Historic Urban Plans, 1977.

Give Hope Collection Drive: Drop Off Donations at Hayden and Noble

February 9, 2009 · Hayden Library, Noble Library, Tempe campus · Comments Off

Give Hope Collection Drive February 6 – March 6

The Commission on the Status of Women is hosting a drive to benefit the women and children of Sojourner Centerm a domestic violence shelter located in Phoenix that provides shelter to over 2,600 women and children every year. Items for the collection may be dropped off at the Hayden and Noble Libraries (Tempe campus) through March 6.  Look for yellow boxes located near the entrances in both libraries.

Needed Items include:

  • * Deoderant
  • * Lotion
  • Toothpaste
  • Toothbrushes
  • Gift cards (Target or Wal-Mart)
  • Dental floss
  • 8oz or larger shampoo and conditioner
  • Hairbrushes
    * Items that are greatly needed

Find out more about the Sojourner Center on their web site.

Fletcher Library Exhibit: Migration: Immigration, Giving Honor to Latina(o) Cultures and Communities

January 12, 2009 · West campus · Comments Off

cesarchavez_web_thumbExhibit: Migration: Immigration, Giving Honor to Latina(o) Cultures and Communities

Location: Fletcher Library, West campus

Available:January 5 – April 30, 2009

Description:A colleague, Kathryn Coe, from U of A shares, “…DNA studies verify that everyone living today shares a common distant ancestor. All of us have ancestors who were migrants. The journeys of our ancestors can often be read in our DNA profile. Over time, the paths of migration moving away, and then folding back, have led to a significant mixing not only of DNA, but also of cultures…” This statement frames the dialogue around the significant artworks contributed to this exhibition. The intention is that these visual expressions create conversations, shared understanding and increase participants’ knowledge.

The exhibition expands opportunities for students, staff, faculty, elected officials and community guests to exchange ideas in both the classroom and in the public arena through the arts: to establish, strengthen and sustain partnership between ASU’s West campus and community organizations and members and serve as a vehicle to increase the university’s social embeddedness in the community at large. The mounting of these artworks through a partnership with the Cultural Arts Coalition, serves not only to showcase the works of artists from the community but provides an opportunity to reach into the classroom and share a timely story concerning immigration reform and social justice. This exhibition is presented in conjunction with ASU at the West campus’s Border Justice Event to be held from March 31 to April 2, 2009, under the guidance of William Paul Simmons, Director, MA in Social Justice and Human Rights, Social and Behavioral Sciences.

Engagement in this exhibition allows ASU West campus and the community to explore the concept of migration and community, while honoring the human story. Our intention is that these visual expressions will call upon our humane need to dialog and create conversations and therein create shared understanding- causing us to pause for meaningful conversations around critical issues and public policies. This art exhibition further expands opportunities for student achievement and success, and the exchange of ideas both in the classroom and in the public arena.

This exhibition is on view in conjunction with ASU at the West campus’s Border Justice Event to be held from March 31 to April 2, 2008.

The exhibit is sponsored by the Border Justice Committee, Social and Behavioral Sciences, New College

Image information: Cesar Chavez by Francisco Garcia

Surveying Arizona: Select Photographs and Artifacts on Exhibit

June 12, 2008 · podcasts, Tempe campus · Comments Off

In this edition of The Library Channel, Fred converses with Arizona Historical Foundation Photo Preservationist Rebekah Tabah, about an exhibit of images selected from over 40,000 foundation photographs illustrating various ways that Arizona has been surveyed, measured, mapped, and studied. These images and artifacts capture an Arizona we cannot fully experience today, representing 150 years of explorers, miners, soldiers, ranchers, engineers, archaeologists, and government officials.

 
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Episode 77

This exhibit can be viewed in the lobby of the Hayden Library on the Tempe campus through the rest of the summer, during all hours the library is open.

For more information about the exhibit, please contact Rebekah Tabah, Arizona Historical Foundation, 480-965-3283

Host: Fred McIlvain

Guest: Rebekah Tabah

Episode 77

New Exhibit: Surveying Arizona

June 6, 2008 · Hayden Library, Tempe campus · Comments Off

Vermilion Cliffs, Colorado River, 1940An Exhibit Featuring Select Photographs from the Arizona Historical Foundation

Photographers have been documenting Arizona’s landscape, culture, and people for nearly 150 years. This is a state that has been surveyed literally from the bottom up. Fortunately for us, explorers, miners, soldiers, ranchers, engineers, archaeologists, and the government officials have left behind a trail of images to follow.

These images were selected from over 40,000 photographs held by the Arizona Historical Foundation. They were chosen to illustrate various ways that Arizona has been surveyed, measured, mapped, and studied. They were also chosen for their rarity, composition, perspective, and in some cases, their charm.

From the earliest glass plate negatives of the Grand Canyon to filming the last river trip before the Colorado River was dammed, these images capture an Arizona that cannot be fully experienced today. The landscape, people, and cultures have changed. But through it all, Arizona endures as a land of mystery and majesty.

This exhibit can be viewed in the lobby of the Hayden Library on the Tempe campus through the rest of the summer, during all hours the library is open.

For more information about the exhibit, please contact Rebekah Tabah, Arizona Historical Foundation, 480-965-3283

Photo: Vermilion Cliffs, Colorado River, 1940

“Arizona Memories of the 70s” Features Curator Christine Marin

May 30, 2008 · All locations · Comments Off

Tune in to KAET (Channel 8) tonight, Monday June 2 at 7pm, for the new program Arizona Memories of the 70’s . This new documentary incorporates many photos and newsclips from the the ASU Libraries’ Arizona Collection, the Chicano Research Collection and the University Archives. Dr. Christine Marin, curator of the Chicano Research Collection, contributes an on screen interview, and clips of this interview are featured in the program. Chris shares her memories of Cesar Chavez and Arizona, especially the Cesar Chavez fast in 1972 at the Santa Rita hall in Phoenix.

Don’t miss the best of the Arizona history decade shows produced by KAET. Can’t watch on Monday? This episode is scheduled to be repeated on Sunday June 8 at 3:30pm.

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