Donating AZ Recollections & Reflections to Libraries

Thanks to our generous sponsors we are able to donate Arizona Recollections and Reflections An Arizona Centennial Historymakers Commemoration to school and public libraries across the state. Most recent funding has come from The John F. Long Foundation, the Jerry Colangelo family trust and Lucy Walkup. Handing them out at Carnegie Library for a Librarian workshop was so rewarding. The librarians were very appreciative to receive a book with such insight into the Historymakers. They commented it was very valuable to 4th grade through high school.

This is part of our Centennial Legacy Project. Norma Jean Coulter and Patti Goss assisted Zona Lorig and Ruth McLeod for the event Sept 14-15.

Happy Birthday Arizona and Oreo cookies

Celebrate 100 years for Arizona and Oreo cookies.

February 14, 1912 marks the day Arizona became a state. The first batch of Oreo cookies were baked in New York City in 1912 also. The National Biscuit Co. (later condensed to Nabisco) registered the Oreo trademark in 1913.

Advertisements touting the Oreo “twist” technique debuted on trolley cars in 1923. Oreo ads ever since have been coaxing cookie monsters to twist, lick and dunk their sandwiches.

Oreos were first delivered to grocers in bulk tins and sold by the pound, but in 1920’s Nabisco introduced single-sleeve “self-service” cardboard containers.

The Historical League is celebrating Arizona's 100th birthday with a new book, Arizona Recollections and Reflections An Arizona Historymakers Centennial Commemoration. It is available on www.HistoricalLeague.org.

Zona and Carolyn at ACHE Convention with League books

Zona Lorig and Carolyn Mendoza continue to promote Arizona Recollections and Reflections An Arizona Historymakers Centennial Commemoration and Tastes & Treasures A Storytelling Cookbook of Historic Arizona.

They set up a table at the AZ Council for History Education Convention in Mesa on Saturday, August 18 with displays and information.

Thanks to generous sponsors, the Centennial book is now available to libraries across the state. Complimentary copies will be given to libraries. We are in the process of gathering addresses and contact information for those who request Arizona Recollections and Reflections.

Artichoke Spread from Donna Esposito

My mouth is watering thinking about this delicious dip from Historical League member, Donna Esposito. She is wearing our Centennial apron in celebration of Arizona's 100th birthday.

More great appetizer recipes are in Tastes & Treasures cookbook.

ARTICHOKE SPREAD

Ingredients:
2 (6.5 oz) jars Artichoke Hearts
1 cup Mayonnaise
8 oz Mozzarella Cheese
2 tsp Garlic Powder
16 oz Parmesan Cheese

Directions:
Preheat oven to 350º.
Drain the artichoke hearts and then cut into small pieces. Combine all remaining ingredients together and bake at 350 degrees for 25-30 minutes until bubbly and heated through.
This is for a double recipe.

Centennial book presentation at History Convention

Celebrating Arizona's Centennial continues to be fun with book presentations and Historymaker Polly Rosenbaum's 100th birthday cake.

The Arizona Centennial conference is held in Phoenix this year at Pointe Hilton Tapatio Cliffs Resort. Zona Lorig and Ruth McLeod will present the Historical League's Centennial book, Arizona Recollections and Reflections, Thursday, April 19 at 10 am. Mary Parker is the chair of the seminar. Joan Robinson created the power point presentation.

Chef extraordinaire Leslie Christiansen will demonstrate this rich chocolate cake, recipe from Tastes & Treasures cookbook page 136. Let the sampling begin.

Children's Holiday Party

Another fabulous and fun event for adults and children alike. The Entertainment was outstanding, Silent Auction items amazing, Children's raffle wonderful and lots of great shopping from the vendors. So much to see and do at the Arizona Biltmore Resort Saturday, December 17. Kudos to co-chairs Kassie Walters, Terrie Mainwaring and Ruth Ann Hogan for another successful fundraising event.

Co-editors of Arizona Recollection and Reflections were on hand to sell the Historical League's Centennial book. Joan Robinson, Zona Lorig and Ruth McLeod continue to get orders and ship the book, most recently to Yuma County library and Glendale public library.

Tastes & Treasures cookbook was also for sale and continues to be a great gift item.

Jana Bommersbach comments on Centennial book

Award winning author Jana Bommersbach gave a wonderful report on the Historical League's new book, Arizona Recollections and Reflections An Arizona Historymakers Centennial Commemoration.

"You can't know Arizona unless you know her people - those who have struggled and triumphed over all these years, starting with those who waited 50 years to gain Statehood because the nation saw Arizona Territory as worthless and uncivilized.

There's no better way to know her people than through The Historical League's Commemorative Book. It's a priceless contribution to the history of Arizona and offers hours and hours of wonderful stories about wonderful people. Read it and know this: We sure showed them!!" --Jana Bommersbach, journalist and author.

The book is a lovely holiday gift giving idea and a great way to help celebrate Arizona's Centennial.

Historic Home to host Membership Open House

The Craftsman-style Hearn Home on W. Northern is the venue for the 2011 Historical League Membership Open House. Guest Speaker and former Director of AHS Museum at Papago Park, Reba Wells Grandrud, is very knowledgeable about the Sunnyslope area and will tell us

more about the home. We are excited to tour the fully restored

homeand learn all about the challenges and successes of the project complete with

"before and after" photos.

Tastes & Treasures cookbook will be for sale along with Arizona Recollections and Reflections An Arizona Centennial

Historymakers Commemoration, Centennial aprons, hats and visors. Several of the foods served are from the cookbook.

Thanks to co-chairs President Elect Pam Ryan and Leslie Christiansen for organizing a lovely afternoon on Thursday, Oct 20.
For more information contact Pam at pardir@cox.net or Leslie at wackomama4@gmail.com

October is National Cookbook Month

Fall is a great time to try out your cookbook recipes and October is National Cookbook Month.

The Historical League's first cookbook (sold out), Arizona's Cooking Heritage, features a pioneer woman holding up two Gila Monsters on the cover. That recipe is interesting but tongue in cheek. Tastes & Treasures is filled with delicious menu ideas and the photographs are inspiring. You can also enjoy the history of Arizona leading up to it's Centennial celebrations February 1912-2012.

Leslie Christiansen to teach cooking class at DBG

Directory of Adult Ed at Desert Botanical Gardens, Steen Allard-Larson met the Historical League at our booth at Arizona Highways Travel Show. Carolyn Mendoza showed him Tastes & Treasures cookbook and Steen was very interested. He wanted to know if anyone in the League could teach a cooking class based on recipes from the book. Guess What??? We have our own chef extraordinaire, Leslie Christiansen who is an accomplished cooking instructor.

Last week Leslie and Ruth McLeod met with Steen at his office in the DBG. Steen signed Leslie up for a class Sunday, February 5 in the afternoon. It will be a treat to learn from her. I can't wait to sign up for the class myself. Stay tuned for details.

Frank Barrios guest speaker

Fascinating talk about Pioneer Cemetery in Phoenix. Frank is a wealth of information about early Arizona. His presentation at the Historical League April meeting kept us spellbound while we learned who is buried in the Pioneer Cemetery, who was unearthed and moved to another cemetery and the background to the stories.

We presented him with our new Centennial book but he already purchased it. Arizona Recollections and Reflections is getting to be more well known, a good read and wonderful reference book.

History that's Fun to Learn -Shipping Centennial books

With orders for ARIZONA Recollections and Reflections coming in, the books need to be shipped out. We are enjoying the ease of shipping through the post office using priority mail with the mailman picking them up. Zona and I had 20 to ship one day so we took them to the post office.

The Historical League is pleased that the book is an official Legacy Project. ARIZONA Recollections and Reflections gathers rare photographs and stories of history makers and companies that shaped the Arizona we live in today.

Historymakers Gala Final meetings

We are so close to the BIG day, Friday, February 11, 2011 and ready to be the "Official Kick Off to Celebrate Arizona's Centennial." A walk through meeting was held at Camelback Inn's Arizona Ballroom. It is a perfect setting for the event. Historic, elegant, and large enough to host over 500 attendees. We look forward to honoring Arizona's Historymakers. Site co-ordinator Kay Holcombe confers with Camelback Inn's assistant, Marjorie, and the Historical League's official photographer Mike Paulson. It is also the premiere of the new Centennial book Arizona Recollections and Reflections.

Volunteers go above and behond

Working towards the Arizona Centennial Historymakers Gala and Reception Program has been a 2 year journey for Historical League volunteers. The chairmen always contribute more but this year our volunteers have gone far beyond the usual donation of time, talent and resources.
Pictured here is our "Computer Guru" Joan Robinson with "Writing Guru" Zona Lorig. Margaret Baker and Pat Faur are two of many who have helped edit the AZ Centennial book and Historymakers Gala program. Thank you to all involved.

Centennial Historymakers Commemorative book

With deadlines looming, the volunteers working on this book have been amazing. Thanks to all of them but especially Linda Cathey and Norma Jean Coulter proof reading here with co-editor Zona Lorig. Computer guru Joan Robinson-Blumit continues to astound us with her talents in creating this 320 page book as co-editors Ruth McLeod and Zona look on.
This book is part of the Centennial Legacy Project and it is a huge committment involving thousands of hours but well worth it. Arizona Historymakers have been honored for their contribution to the growth of the State. This book details their accomplishments and stories.

Historymakers Gala committee has success

Historymakers Gala and Recognition Committee has been busy on this event for months. All this hard work is coming to fruition resulting in table reservations, fund raising, commemorative Centennial book, video of Historymakers, photographs, artifacts, sponsors, contributions, decorations, guest speakers, website, Legacy Project and more. Thanks to all the volunteers who continue to make things happen for the Historical League.