Hassayampa Inn for lunch during Historical League October tour

 Historic Hassayampa Inn is a great place for lunch in Prescott. Our tours always include delicious food!

Thanks to Josie Pete for great photos!

Tour to Prescott Museum of Indigenous People

 No better way to enjoy a tour to Prescott's Museum of Indigenous People than in the company of Historical League members! The October tour was well attended, fun on the bus and educational at the museum with Executive Director Manuel Lucero IV speaking.

Cathy Shumard commented, "Manuel's storytelling and humor easily held our attention."

Thanks to Josie Pete for the great photos!

The Palace Restaurant and Saloon in Prescott

The Historical League is not the only one to appreciate The Palace Restaurant and Saloon. Thanks to a wonderful article in The Arizona Republic, January 8, 2018, we are reminded of the fascinating history of this Prescott establishment.
You can read more history and recipes from The Palace in Tastes & Treasures II, A Storytelling Cookbook of Historic Arizona due out in February. www.HistoricalLeague.org/SHOP.aspx

Testing recipes for Volume II Tastes & Treasures cookbook

Recipes often need testing to make sure all the ingredients are accurate and the directions are easy to understand. Thanks to Chef Leslie Christiansen for insisting that we double check ourselves in order to create the best cookbook possible.
Tasting Parties are the most efficient and fun way to test a recipe but we often have individual Historical League members make the food in their own home. The family then gets to be the recipient of the delicious dishes, including this one from Prescott:  The Palace Corn Chowder. Just look what goes into it. Yummmmm!

Historic photos of Prescott

Twenty five years after Cookbook Co-Chair Linda Corderman started her custom art business, we find some of her first big pieces at Prescott’s historic First National Bank. The bank on the downtown square is now a charming gift shop with Linda’s beautiful framing on historic Prescott prints. While still running her flourishing business, Corderman Art Resources,  Linda’s love of history is also channeled into publishing Volume II of Tastes & Treasures, A Storytelling Cookbook of Historic Arizona. Her creativity is much appreciated by the Historical League.

Historic Prescott bank

Strolling through Prescott's town square, Karen Swanson and friends stopped at the 1st National Bank building, now a charming gift shop. Large framed photos on the walls give an insight into the days of early Prescott.

Dr. Reba Wells Grandrud honored at Western History Symposium Aug 2.

From the Sharlot Hall Museum Messenger-

Historical League member Reba Wells Grandrud, Ph.D., will be honored with the 2013 Sharlot Hall Award on August 2 at the Western History Symposium in Prescott. This award is given by the Sharlot Hall Museum to a living Arizona woman who has made a valuable contribution to the understanding and awareness of Arizona and its history.

Grandrud’s wide-ranging historical work in preservation, museums, oral history and historical trails exemplify the type of dedication common to the 30 women who have preceded her as recipients of this award. After moving to Phoenix from Albuquerque, NM, in 1982 and for the next 30-plus years, Grandrud has been involved in historical research, writing and publishing, as well as serving on a variety of boards and historical societies. She holds degrees from the University of New Mexico in education, Southwest history and history of the American West.

She has researched such historical ranches as the San Bernardino Ranch in southern Arizona and the Richard DeKuhn homestead in Cherry, Arizona. She also served as research historian for the Yuma Crossing Foundation, which developed programs and interpretation of Fort Yuma and the Quartermaster Depot. Grandrud has several publications including articles about the Slaughter family and the San Bernardino Ranch; Yuma Crossing; a book about Sunnyslope; and a children’s book. Grandrud, who has been committed to promoting local history, has volunteered and served on the board of the Sunnyslope Historical Society.

She has been active in researching and promoting national historic trails and belongs to several trails associations. In addition, Grandrud served as director of the Arizona Historical Society Museum in Papago Park, as well as Heritage Fund Planner and the Coordinator of National Register of Historic Places for Arizona with the State Historic Preservation Office. She has been a member and past president of Westerners International, an active member of several Westerner Corrals, and Past Sheriff of the Scottsdale Corral; a speaker for the Arizona Humanities Road Scholar Program and member of the Arizona Women’s Hall of Fame Board.

Join us in congratulating Dr. Grandrud when she receives this well-deserved honor.  Information at www.prescottcorral.org