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.

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