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Grand Canyon Historical Society |
Outings/Programs Members meet monthly for a program or to visit a historic site. The Grand Canyon Historical Society is an informal and congenial group who has fun and learns about the area at the same time. Additionally, members from all over the country converge on the Grand Canyon in June for the annual picnic at Shoshone Point. It is at the picnic when presentations are made for the Grand Canyon Pioneer Award and the Grand Canyon Hall of Fame Award. |
GCHS Programs/Outings
Below are the outings/programs at which members of the Grand Canyon Historical Society will gather in 2009, coordinated by the GCHS Outings Team.
Non-members are welcome to attend to learn about the Society. Also, please check the Grand Canyon Association calendar for other events that may be of interest to the GCHS membership.
OUTINGS FOR 2009:
Refer to the most recent issue of The Bulletin for meeting times and places for these outings.
JANUARY --
no outing
FEBRUARY --
available
MARCH 28 --
RANCHING HISTORY OF THE KAIBAB by Amy Horn, Archeologist for Grand Canyon National Park
2:00-4:00 PM* at North Kaibab Ranger District 2, Main Street, Fredonia, AZ:
Connie Reid and Brett Betenson, Archeologist, Kaibab National Forest, will also have a presentation on the subject.
* 11:45 AM: Meet at Kane County Visitor's Center, 78 South 100 East (Hwy 89), Kanab UT for lunch (dutch) with group.
Note: If you want to carpool from Flagstaff or the South Rim, send an email to Amy Horn at Amy_Horn@nps.gov.
Coordinated by Amy Horn
MARCH 28 to 30 --
Grand Canyon River Guides' Guide Training Seminar (GTS, Land Session) .
Hatch Warehouse, Marble Canyon: Includes presentations and images of 1983 flood by those who were there. See the GTS 2008 document on the GCRG web page.
Pipe Spring National Monument demonstrations
Demonstrations of a number of historical activities including blacsmithing, stone cutting and the CCC. See Arizona State Parks calendar for more information.
Antelope Canyon and John Wesley Powell Museum tours
Page: Because of the Antelope Canyon tour arrangements, interested persons must contact Nancy Green by April 10 if planning to attend this outing. Write Nancy at kngreen4@msn.com or PO Box 50756, Parks AZ 86018, or call her at 928-635-1378.
Coordinated by Nancy Green
MAY 23 & 24 --
HULL CABIN DISTRICT TOUR AND CAMPOUT by John Azar.
Hull Cabin (south of Grandview Point in national forest), South Rim: A campout at Hull Cabin with historical presentation and tour of the Hull District.
Details coming
JUNE 21 (Sunday) --
ANNUAL SHOSHONE POINT PICNIC.
11:00 AM at Shoshone Point, Grand Canyon South Rim (gate open at 10 AM): Members from across the country converge at the Canyon's edge for a potluck of good food, friendly faces and lively conversation. The Grand Canyon Historical Society will be holding its annual pot luck picnic at Shoshone Point, South Rim, located a few miles east of the Visitors Center along the Highway to Desert View. Everyone should bring a dish to share (casserole, dessert, etc.), drinks and something to barbeque. (There may be fire restrictions that could nix the barbeque part. Check back here for updates.) We will be presenting the Pioneer award and other service awards. Shoshone Point parking area is extremely limited. We ask that you walk the half mile or so to the point. But there will be volunteer vehicles will help ferry supplies and people as needed. Come see the Canyon and visit with everyone.
JUNE 20
LOUIS AKIN'S LOST BRIDE: The Photos, Poems and Adventures of Mai Richie Reed by Erik Berg.
7:00 PM at Riordan Mansion in Flagstaff: In the last years of his life, famous Grand Canyon painter and Flagstaff resident, Louis Akin was briefly married to a young woman from Philadelphia. Largely forgotten in Flagstaff after Akin's death, her identity and the details of their marriage soon faded into obscurity. But Akin's mysterious wife had a story all her own. Young, single, independent and restless, Mai Richie Reed had originally set out to explore the southwest at a time when Arizona was still a rough territory and women did not yet have the right to vote. During her brief - but active - years in the west, she explored the Grand Canyon on trails now largely forgotten, hiked to the mesa-top pueblo of Acoma, climbed glaciers in a newly-established Glacier National Park and helped build one of Flagstaff's landmark buildings. Based on Reed's recently rediscovered travel journals and photographs as well as extensive original research, this presentation will tell a little-known story of traveling adventure, ill-fated romance, and one of northern Arizona's most overlooked early citizens.
JOHY RIFFEY: The Last Long-Time Ranger by Jean Luttrell
1:00 PM at NAUs's Cline Library Screen Room A in Flagstaff: Jean has recently written a book about John Riffey, the legendary ranger at Toroweap for decades.
11:00 - Meet at Casa Bonita on Milton Road across from Target for lunch (dutch).
Coordinated by Nancy Green
JULY 18 & 19 --
PASTURE WASH RANGER STATION SERVICE PROJECT
A campout at Pasture Wash Ranger Station, for the second year in a row, Grand Canyon Youth and volunteers will work on the restoration of the ranger station and barn. This is a service project and GCHS members are invited to participate.
Details of van shuttle, food, etc. will be provided for anyone interested in this outing. RSVP to John Azar at TontoWalk@gmail.com
AUGUST 22 --
CALL OF THE CANYON by Tom Martin and Hazel Cark
1:00 PM at NAU Cline Library, Flagstaff: This presentation includes 45 minutes of original footage from 16mm film of river running in Grand Canyon in 1955, 56, 57, 58, and 1959. It includes background information of the origins of the GEM, Grand Canyons first decked drift boat, also called a dory. This boat incorporated self bailing through the use of scuppers, had side boxes in the boatman’s footwell, and never before seen on any Grand Canyon watercraft, a 15-inch rocker. Yes, you will learn what the boat term “rocker” means.
The original footage includes images of rafting past Boulder Narrows at 122,000 cubic feet per second in 1957, burning driftwood, the Phantom Ranch swimming pool in 1957, hiking out at Lava Falls and pushing empty boats into the river in 1958, slow motion images of flipping a fiberglass boat in 24.5 Mile “Georgie” Rapid, patching fiberglass boats, and the sinking of the Plez Talmadge “PT” Reilly boats at Pipe Creek in 1959.
The GEM, built in Muncie Indiana by Stephen Moulton Babcock Fulmer, is now in the fleet of Grand Canyon Historic Boats.
Coordinated by Bev Loomis
SEPTEMBER --
"A MULE'S EYE VIEW OF THE GRAND CANYON: The Photograph Collection of Trail Guide Ray Tankersley" by Mona Lange McCroskey
Prescott: Ray Tankersley was a tour guide and mule train leader at the Grand Canyon in the 1920s and 30s who left an extensive collection of photographs. These are some classic (and surprisingly high quality) historic images of some of the central canyon's most famous landmarks, trails and buildings. Mona will show many of the photos and tell the stories behind them. Mona Lange McCroskey is a fourth-generation Arizonan and well-known historian who has published several books and numerous articles on Grand Canyon and southwestern history. In 2000, she received the prestigious Sharlot Hall Award for her life-long contributions to Arizona History.
Coordinated by Erik Berg
OCTOBER --
ANNUAL BOARD MEETING.
NOVEMBER 21 --
GRAND CANYON ANTHROPOLOGY by Michael Anderson
Mormon Meeting Hall in Pine, Arizona.
Details coming
DECEMBER
No outing
Send questions or comments about outings to:
John Azar at TontoWalk@gmail.com