Flagstaff, AZ: The new Route 66 Mini-Market brings life’s little necessities to downtown! In addition, he’s grinding his coffee on site - Royal Cup Coffee with names like “Two Guns” medium roast and “Road Kill” dark roast can be had along with a bagel or some Uncle Buzz’s chocolate! He is also carrying some Route 66 souvenirs as well as mini-mart staples like candy, chewing tobacco and toiletries you may have forgotten. Visit this new business, and meet Jeff Bonner - and welcome him and his new business to Downtown Flagstaff. Located on the corner of Birch & San Francisco - across from the Courthouse.

Flagstaff, AZ: Once again, the Museum of Northern Arizona is hosting Trappings of the American West. This is a sales exhibition that includes contemporary paintings, photography and bronzes.

Exhibit visitors will view and be able to purchase the work of 90 juried artists, from 14 Western states, Hawaii, and Canada, whose art preserves the time-honored traditions of craftsmanship. This year’s artistic mediums will include painting, bronze sculpture, photography, saddles, tooled leather, bits and spurs, boots, hats, knives, engraving, hitched horsehair, braided rawhide, and instrument making. Knife and spur maker Larry Fuegen remarked, “The fascinating thing is that we are all self-taught. There are no schools to learn these trades. They are passed from one generation to the next, and these art forms are really one generation away from being lost.”

Presented by the Dry Creek Arts Fellowship, Trappings is one of three Arizona events this year to be recognized with an ALTE grant (Arts Link to Tourism and the Economy). Funding for this prestigious award comes from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Arizona Commission on the Arts. The ALTE grants support projects that promote a community’s or region’s artistic resources and create cultural tourism.

Museum Hours: 9am to 5pm daily. You can call 928-774-5213 or visit the Museum’s website.

Flagstaff, AZ: Please note that we are now on our Winter hours, open Thursday - Monday, 10:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. with tours beginning at 11:00 a.m. and continuing throughout the day at the top of the hour, the last tour of the day is always 4:00 p.m. Reservations are always recommended.

If you are looking for information on the budget crisis, try the Arizona State Parks Foundation website. This non-profit was created to advocate for Arizona State Parks. www.arizonastateparksfoundation.org.The best thing to do still is to contact your Arizona State Legislators, the Foundation website has a link to help you do this.

Riordan Mansion State Historic Park will closed Tuesdays and Wednesdays through March 2010 due to the ongoing State Budget crisis.

On-Going Series of Brown Bag Lunch Lectures 12:15pm, Free!
A special Brown Bag in celebration of Samuel Clemens’ birthday
Mon, Nov 9 Mark Twain in the American West
Kathy Farretta, Riordan Mansion State Historic Park In celebration of Samuel Clemens’ birthday, we will explore the forces which caused him to make the trip to the newly established Territory of Nevada with his brother Orion, in 1861. From printer’s apprentice to steamboat pilot; prospector to newspaper correspondent, follow Sam Clemens’ journey to the American West.
**Note this is a Monday**

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Evening Slide Presentation Series, 7pm RSVP Free!
(Program is Free. Reservations are recommended due to limited availability.)

Nov 7 The Great Southwest of the Santa Fe Railway
Alan Petersen, Coconino Community College & MNA The Santa Fe Railway introduced a great many visitors from around the world to the people and geography of the Southwest. They were also great patrons of the arts and used the art they commissioned as part of their marketing strategy and materials. The Santa Fe Railway marketing department hired well known artists and their prints and paintings have, in many ways, come to define the stereotypical image of the Southwest.

Nov 14 Lava dams on the Colorado and Little Colorado Rivers
Wendell Duffield, USGS & NAU
Volcanoes are notorious for building dams across rivers that get in their way. Northern Arizona has been a hotbed of this kind of no-bid construction. Eruptions in the Toroweap area created about a dozen dams in the Grand Canyon during the past 700,000 years. The most recent attempt for yet another was only 1,000 years ago, but the volcano ran out of lava before the project could be carried out. The Little Colorado River has seen at least four lava dams created during the past two million years. The youngest of these is at Grand Falls and is only 20,000 years old. From a geological perspective, future eruptions are likely to occur in northern Arizona. It’s interesting and a bit frightening to contemplate the consequences should such eruption create a new lava.