Thanksgiving weekend Meet the Author/Book Signing at the Bisbee Museum

 

Hi: We are hosting a Meet the Author/Book Signing event Thanksgiving weekend that may be of interest to you guys in Douglas!  Can you please pass this information on to your members? Thanks, Carrie

 

Carrie Gustavson, Director

Bisbee Mining & Historical Museum

A Smithsonian Affiliate

P.O. Box 14

Bisbee, Arizona 85603

www.bisbeemuseum.org

(520) 432-7071

(520) 432-7800 fax

carrie@bisbeemuseum.org

 

Press Release

For immediate release:

contact: Carrie Gustavson

432-7071

carrie@bisbeemuseum.org

 

Meet the Author

Arizona: A Celebration of the Grand Canyon State by Jim Turner 

 

November 18, 2011, Bisbee, Arizona – Saturday, November 26, 2011, meet author Jim Turner, 2:00 – 4:00 PM, at the Bisbee Mining & Historical Museum.

 

Arizona: A Celebration of the Grand Canyon State is a colorful, comprehensive, and fascinating popular history of this beautiful state, from its prehistoric and geologic origins to its definitive Native American, Hispanic, and Wild West cultures. It paints a broad brush chronicle from the creation of the Grand Canyon and Petrified Forest to Arizona's modern biotech industries.  Author Jim Turner captures Arizona's documented history with engaging text complemented by scenic and historic images that define the spirit of this last frontier of the continental United States.

 

Complementing the text, more than 500 images highlight this new photographic history of Arizona.  In addition to hundreds of historic pictures collected from more than a dozen museums and libraries throughout Arizona, the book features stunning images by acclaimed Arizona Highways landscape photographers Jack Dykinga, Jerry Jacka, and Larry Prentice as well as twenty paintings by iconic western artist Maynard Dixon.

 

The author, Jim Turner, has a master's in U.S. history, was historian for the Arizona Historical Society, and teaches Arizona history for Central Arizona College. He was a contributing author for the award-winning fourth grade text book, The Arizona Story, and has written for Arizona Highways, the Journal of Arizona History, the Arizona Daily Star, the Capitol Times, and several other newspapers and magazines.

 

Add a colorful and fun trip back into Arizona's history this Thanksgiving weekend.  Copies of Arizona: A Celebration of the Grand Canyon State will be available for purchase during the event at the Museum Store.

 

For information, contact Carrie Gustavson, Director of the Bisbee Mining & Historical Museum, 432-7071 or carrie@bisbeemuseum.org.  To learn more about the author, go to www.jimturnerhistorian.org.

 

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