| 02/11/12 |
Arizona History Adventure: An Apple a Day
Sharlot Hall Museum
Presented by Sharlot Hall Museum
at Sharlot Hall Museum
February 11, 2012
An Apple a Day is the theme for this month's educational adventure. Just as today, sickness was prevalent in frontier society, especially in the winter and, as today, our ancestors tried home remedies before calling the doctor.
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02/11/12- 09/03/12 |
Centennial Canvas: Paintings by Prescott Artists
Sharlot Hall Museum
Presented by Sharlot Hall Museum
at Sharlot Hall Museum
February 11-September 3, 2012
Prescott's beauty and culture as captured by 10 prominent area artists will be on display at Sharlot Hall Museum in Centennial Canvas: Paintings by Prescott Artists.
The exhibition features works by the artists created for this exhibition. The show is being presented in conjunction with Arizona's centennial celebration. Many of the works will be available for sale, with part of the sale proceeds supporting the Sharlot Hall Museum. The artists whose works will be...
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02/17/12- 02/25/12 |
Dear Alice
Sharlot Hall Museum
Presented by Sharlot Hall Museum
at Sharlot Hall Museum
February 17-February 25, 2012
Sharlot Hall Museum presents an original historical play that tells the touching frontier story of Gen. Benjamin Grierson, who commanded the Fort Whipple barracks among his many military assignments, and his loving wife Alice. The play features Lane and Karla Burkitt as the Griersons.
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| 02/18/12 |
Living History Presentation
Sharlot Hall Museum
Presented by Sharlot Hall Museum
at Sharlot Hall Museum
February 18, 2012
Fort Whipple Museum on the Veteran's Administration Hospital campus on Highway 89 in Prescott. "The Quartermaster Department: The Search for the Well Dressed Soldier." Living History interpreters illuminate Arizona's military past.
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| 02/18/12 |
The Quartermaster Department: The Search for the Well Dressed Soldier
Fort Whipple Museum
Presented by Sharlot Hall Museum
at Fort Whipple Museum
February 18, 2012
Living History interpreters illuminate Arizona's military past in this examination of "The Quartermaster Department: The Search for the Well Dressed Soldier."
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02/25/12- 01/15/13 |
Arizona on an Alien Planet
Sharlot Hall Museum
Presented by Sharlot Hall Museum
at Sharlot Hall Museum
February 25, 2012-January 15, 2013
Arizona on an Alien Planet is an adventure of the mind through an unimaginable expanse of time and space to an Earth born from the violent death of an ancient star. Ride with Arizona as it slips and slides across a restless planet, plunges beneath a primordial seas and then launches skyward as continents violently collide.
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| 02/26/12 |
Bringing Them Home: The Chautauquas
Sharlot Hall Museum
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| 03/03/12 |
Byway of Arizona Music Series
Sharlot Hall Museum
Presented by Sharlot Hall Museum
at Sharlot Hall Museum
March 3, 2012
D-Squared, from beautiful downtown Mayer, serves up some of the best folk music Arizona has to offer at Sharlot Hall Museum.
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| 03/10/12 |
Arizona History Adventure: A Trip to Town
Sharlot Hall Museum
Presented by Sharlot Hall Museum
at Sharlot Hall Museum
March 10, 2012
A Trip to Town is the theme for this month's educational adventure. Even though frontier settlers were mostly self-sufficient, they still needed an occasional trip to town to buy what they considered the necessities of life.
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| 03/25/12 |
Bringing Them Home: The Chautauquas
Sharlot Hall Museum
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| 04/07/12 |
Byway of Arizona Music Series
Sharlot Hall Museum
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| 04/14/12 |
Arizona History Adventure: Spring Cleaning
Sharlot Hall Museum
Presented by Sharlot Hall Museum
at Sharlot Hall Museum
April 14, 2012
Spring Cleaning is the theme for this month's educational adventure. After having the house closed up all winter, there was a desire by the frontier house wife to air things out and get the home ready for summer.
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04/20/12- 04/28/12 |
Out Back of the Woodshed
Sharlot Hall Museum
Presented by Sharlot Hall Museum
at Sharlot Hall Museum
April 20-April 28, 2012
Sharlot Hall Museum's Blue Rose Theater presents an original historical play directed and written by Jody Drake that tells the story of children on the frontier, featuring members of the Museum Student Conservatory.
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| 04/29/12 |
Bringing Them Home: The Chautauquas
Sharlot Hall Museum
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| 05/05/12 |
Byway of Arizona Music Series
Sharlot Hall Museum
Presented by Sharlot Hall Museum
at Sharlot Hall Museum
May 5, 2012
The Generation Folk Music Band, Sharlot Hall Museum's own home-grown musicians, lights up the stage at Sharlot Hall Museum.
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| 05/12/12 |
An Evening at Sharlot's Place
Sharlot Hall Museum
Presented by Sharlot Hall Museum
at Sharlot Hall Museum
May 12, 2012
Mark your calendar for "An Evening at Sharlot's Place," the Museum's premier fundraising event of the year. Many prominent local artists will be represented in the live auction, and an eclectic mix of local businesses will be providing valuable goods and services for the silent auction. Chef Jim of Gabby's Restaurant in Chino Valley once again will provide a regal repast to complement the auction action.
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| 05/12/12 |
Arizona History Adventure
Sharlot Hall Museum
Presented by Sharlot Hall Museum
at Sharlot Hall Museum
May 12, 2012
Slaving Over a Hot Cook Stove is the theme for this month's educational adventure. While the cast iron cooking range was a great time and labor saving device, it also meant enduring extra heat during the warm Arizona summers.
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| 05/19/12 |
Living History Presentation
Sharlot Hall Museum
Presented by Sharlot Hall Museum
at Sharlot Hall Museum
May 19, 2012
Fort Whipple Museum on the Veteran's Administration Hospital campus on Highway 89 in Prescott. "Armed Forces Day: Honoring Those Who Have Served and Those Who Now Serve" presented by the museum's Living History interpreters continuously throughout the day.
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| 05/27/12 |
Bringing Them Home: The Chautauquas
Sharlot Hall Museum
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| 06/02/12 |
Byway of Arizona Music Series
Sharlot Hall Museum
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06/02/12- 06/03/12 |
Folk Arts Fair Village
Sharlot Hall Museum
Presented by Sharlot Hall Museum
at Sharlot Hall Museum
June 2-June 3, 2012
This popular family-friendly heritage festival celebrates traditional arts, crafts, and entertainment of central territorial Arizona with the emphasis on education and demonstration.
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| 06/09/12 |
Arizona History Adventure: Gardening in Granite
Sharlot Hall Museum
Presented by Sharlot Hall Museum
at Sharlot Hall Museum
June 9, 2012
Gardening in Granite is the theme for this month's educational adventure. Most families found it necessary to put in a garden plot to help feed everyone. Central Arizona did, and still does, pose its own set of problems for raising crops.
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06/22/12- 06/30/12 |
Ladies of the Garden: We Will Vote
Sharlot Hall Museum
Presented by Sharlot Hall Museum
at Sharlot Hall Museum
June 22-June 30, 2012
Sharlot Hall Museum's Blue Rose Theater presents an original historical play written by Randi Wise and Jody Drake that tells the compelling stories of women honored in the museum's territorial rose garden.
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| 06/24/12 |
Bringing Them Home: The Chautauquas
Sharlot Hall Museum
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| 07/07/12 |
Byway of Arizona Music Series
Sharlot Hall Museum
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| 07/14/12 |
Arizona History Adventure: Sewing for the Family
Sharlot Hall Museum
Presented by Sharlot Hall Museum
at Sharlot Hall Museum
July 14, 2012
Sewing for the Family is the theme for this month's educational adventure. While there was ready to wear clothing available on the frontier, most families bought only what they absolutely had to, such as shoes, socks and some men's clothing, and made the rest at home either by hand or with a sewing machine if they were fortunate.
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07/14/12- 07/15/12 |
Prescott Indian Art Market
Sharlot Hall Museum
Presented by Sharlot Hall Museum
at Sharlot Hall Museum
July 14-July 15, 2012
Outstanding Native American painters, potters, weavers and jewelers will display their wares on the beautiful museum grounds for one of the premier Native American art markets in the southwest. Enjoy cultural presentations arts and craft demonstrations, musical performances and delicious fry bread.
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| 07/29/12 |
Bringing Them Home: The Chautauquas
Sharlot Hall Museum
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| 08/04/12 |
Byway of Arizona Music Series: The Best of Arizona
Sharlot Hall Museum
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| 08/11/12 |
Arizona History Adventure: Too Hot to Cook Indoors
Sharlot Hall Museum
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| 08/11/12 |
9th Annual Western History Symposium
Sharlot Hall Museum
Presented by Sharlot Hall Museum
at Sharlot Hall Museum
August 11, 2012
The public is invited to this annual gathering of historians, educators and authors that features intriguing presentations about the Old West and the Arizona Territory. The symposium is a joint program of the Prescott Corral of the Westerners and Sharlot Hall Museum.
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| 08/18/12 |
Living History Presentation: The Ordnance Department: More than Guns and Bullets
Sharlot Hall Museum
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| 08/26/12 |
Bringing Them Home: The Chautauquas
Sharlot Hall Museum
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| 09/01/12 |
Byway of Arizona Music Series
Sharlot Hall Museum
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09/07/12- 09/15/12 |
Arizona Orphan Train
Sharlot Hall Museum
Presented by Sharlot Hall Museum
at Sharlot Hall Museum
September 7-September 15, 2012
Sharlot Hall Museum's Blue Rose Theater presents a topical historical play that tells of the conflict that flared in 1904 when New York nuns brought 40 Irish orphans to a remote Arizona mining camp to be placed with Catholic families.
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| 09/08/12 |
Arizona History Adventure: Putting up The Bounty of The Garden
Sharlot Hall Museum
Presented by Sharlot Hall Museum
at Sharlot Hall Museum
September 8, 2012
Putting up The Bounty of The Garden is the theme for this month's educational adventure. If you had a successful garden, then there was extra to be preserved for the winter ahead. With anything canned costing a whole dollar at the mercantile, keeping what you grew was very important.
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| 09/23/12 |
Bringing Them Home: The Chautauquas
Sharlot Hall Museum
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10/06/12- 10/07/12 |
Folk Music Festival
Sharlot Hall Museum
Presented by Sharlot Hall Museum
at Sharlot Hall Museum
October 6-October 7, 2012
Sharlot Hall Museum's 34th annual Folk Music Festival is Arizona's oldest such gathering, featuring an amazing array of top folk-music talent performing on multiple stages, complemented by impromptu jam sessions throughout the shade-covered museum grounds.
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| 10/13/12 |
Arizona History Adventure: Laundry Tubs and Scrub Boards
Sharlot Hall Museum
Presented by Sharlot Hall Museum
at Sharlot Hall Museum
October 13, 2012
Laundry Tubs and Scrub Boards is the theme for this month's educational adventure. A chore that had to be done on a weekly basis, soaking, boiling and scrubbing clothes was a never-ending job.
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| 10/28/12 |
Bringing Them Home: The Chautauquas
Sharlot Hall Museum
Presented by Sharlot Hall Museum
at Sharlot Hall Museum
October 28, 2012
Arizona highlands miner Juan Marino is performed by his grandson Mike Shepard, in this month's presentation of Bringing Them Home: The Chautauquas .
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| 11/03/12 |
Byway of Arizona Music Series
Sharlot Hall Museum
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| 11/10/12 |
Arizona History Adventure: Preparing for Winter
Sharlot Hall Museum
Presented by Sharlot Hall Museum
at Sharlot Hall Museum
November 10, 2012
Preparing for Winter is the theme for this month's educational adventure. Making sure that you had enough of everything was important before winter set in. Once the winter rain and snow started, it could be weeks before roads were passable to go to town or even perform meaningful work about the home.
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| 11/16/12 |
Arizona
Sharlot Hall Museum
Presented by Sharlot Hall Museum
at Sharlot Hall Museum
November 16, 2012
Sharlot Hall Museum's Blue Rose Theater brings down the curtain on Arizona's centennial with a revival of this popular 1880s play, adapted and directed by Parker Anderson.
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| 11/17/12 |
Living History Presentation: The Commissary Department: Hard Tack and Salt Pork
Sharlot Hall Museum
Presented by Sharlot Hall Museum
at Sharlot Hall Museum
November 17, 2012
The Commissary Department: Hard Tack and Salt Pork. Living History interpreters illuminate Arizona's military past throughout the day.
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| 11/25/12 |
Bringing Them Home: The Chautauquas
Sharlot Hall Museum
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| 12/01/12 |
Frontier Christmas
Sharlot Hall Museum
Presented by Sharlot Hall Museum
at Sharlot Hall Museum
December 1, 2012
Sharlot Hall Museum's Living History interpreters revive the spirit of Christmas past at this annual celebration at Sharlot Hall.
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| 12/08/12 |
Arizona History Adventure: Frontier Celebration
Sharlot Hall Museum
Presented by Sharlot Hall Museum
at Sharlot Hall Museum
December 8, 2012
Frontier Celebration is the theme for this month's educational adventure. Frontier families varied widely in the holidays that they celebrated and the manner in which they did so. With a tradition of Christmas going back to the first celebration in Prescott in 1864, local inhabitants had their own thoughts on the matter.
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| 12/16/12 |
Bringing Them Home: The Chautauquas
Sharlot Hall Museum
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| 10/13/13 |
Arizona History Adventure: Laundry Tubs and Scrub Boards
Sharlot Hall Museum
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