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01/28/2025

Attendees can get crafty, learn some new recipes and get in touch with their artistic side during the Presidio Museum’s Spring Workshop Series.

The schedule is as follows:

Presidio Painting – A Workshop: Feb. 1 and Mar. 6, 1-3 pm, $60/person or $50/member

Spanish Heritage Sourdough Bread Workshop: Mar. 1, 10 am-12 pm, $70/person or $60/member

Soap-Making Workshop: Mar. 15, 10 am-12 pm, $75/person or $65/member

Taste of the Desert: Wild and Native-Cultivated Food Tasting & Workshop: Mar. 20, 11 am-12:30 pm, $60/person or $50/member

Tohono O’odham Utilitarian Vessel Pottery Workshop: Mar. 22, 10 am to 12 pm, $65/person or $55/member

Nopalitos Workshop: April 3, 11 am-12:30 pm, $60/person or $50/member

Pre-registration is required for all workshops. Register and get more information at www.TucsonPresidio.com/calendars

01/22/2025

Tucson Presidio Museum Walking Tours Groups of 10 or more are welcome at the Presidio Museum and receive a discounted rate for tours Calendar Tucson Presidio Museum offers the best Tucson Area Walking Tours We have a variety of tours with experienced and friendly guides. Information on all our walki...

01/20/2025

Martin Luther King spoke in Tucson in 1959. During the Q & A portion of the talk, he related the story of how, on their way to Tucson, he and his group had to sleep in their cars after being refused rooms in Phoenix. The next morning they were refused service at a Phoenix diner.

One of the most important things that the Civil Rights Movement gave all Americans was the right to acknowledge their social, personal and historic contributions to the creation of this country.

Despite this, Arizona was the last state to adopt the MLK holiday and a couple of states still recognize the holiday with cynical dual-recognition of the day with Robert E. Lee Day.

Remembering, on this day of transition, the legacy and vision of Dr. King as well as the hope that the civil rights movement gave us for a greater, more inclusive nation that strove to live up to it’s eventual potential and promise for itself and the world.

01/14/2025

In partnership with Tucson Museum of Art and Historic Block and Mauro from Trejo's Walking Tours, we invite you to a free history talk on the Juan Bautista de Anza National Historic Trail at TMA on Thursday, February 6 at 5:30pm!

Mexican American Heritage & History Museum in Tucson AZ

01/11/2025

01/07/2025

https://www.youtube.com/live/qL-EGsVrBtQ?si=t8gHevCYnU3GC96o
Starting now!

01/01/2025

UPDATE:
There will be a history social tonight! With Tucson’s semiquincentennial this year, we will cover the origins of the modern city, the river, the people who founded it, and how we transitioned from Spanish to Mexican and to US, Confederate, then US again. Talk starts at 5:30pm at the Tucson Museum of Art!

There will not be a History Social tomorrow due in part to its closeness to the holiday.
They will resume on Thursday February 6 and the topic will be an overview of the Anza Expedition. I’ll post an event listing soon.

Hi, I’m Mauro Trejo, a Walking Tour Guide and Tucson historian. I offer private and group tours as

12/25/2024

Lalo Guerrero was born on this day, December 24, 1916.
Lalo is probably the most famous person to come out of Tucson’s Barrio Libre/Viejo/Meyer or whatever name you know it by.
Born on Meyer Street (the house is still there), he has been dubbed “The Father of Chicano Music”, a blend of various Mexican and American styles that sometimes incorporated Pachuco “Calo” lyrics and were a big hit with the “Zoot-suitors” of the time.
He also marched with Cesar Chavez, wrote Mexican classic songs like “Nunca Jamás” and “Canción Mexicana”as well as countless other Spanish and English language parody songs.
Lalo said that the night he was born, his mom suffered complications during the delivery and had to be immediately tended to. After she was stabilized, someone remembered that a baby had just been born and looked to the foot of the bed and saw a newborn Lalo turning blue. He too was then tended to and he recovered but he would often say that it was the reason he went into show business; He never wanted to not be the center of attention as it had almost cost him his life!
His mom taught him to play guitar at 9 years old and he went on to gain worldwide recognition for his activism and music. He won the National medal of the Arts, was named a national folk treasure by the Smithsonian, and received many other awards and titles for his body of work.
Lalo loved his barrio and Tucson. He died on March 17, 2005.
For more on on Lalo check out his autobiography “Lalo, My Life and Music”

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1291967.Lalo