We were privileged to have Stuart Rosebrook, the new Director of the Sharlot Hall Museum, speak to our club last Wednesday. As a historian and writer, he helped us appreciate the contributions to Arizona's history by Sharlott Hall and several other prominent frontier women, along with the historical treasure we have here in Prescott.
The Sharlot Hall Museum is an open-air museum and heritage site located in our city. Opened in 1928 by Sharlot M. Hall as the Gubernatorial Mansion Museum, the museum that now bears her name is dedicated to preserving the history and culture of the Central Highlands of Arizona. The museum grounds comprises almost four acres and includes 11 exhibit buildings, six of which are historic. This includes the Governor's Mansion built at its site in 1864 and listed in the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP). Several historic buildings and structures were moved to the property, and include:
- Fort Misery (the oldest log cabin in Arizona, built in 1864, moved to this property in 1934),
- Frémont House (built in 1875, home of 5th Territorial governor John C. Frémont, moved to the museum in 1971),
- Bashford House (built in 1877 and was the Victorian home of businessman William Bashford).
Additional historic buildings built on-site include the Sharlot Hall Building (stone exhibit building built during the Depression as a CWA project) and the nearby Ranch House.
Additional exhibit buildings include the Lawler Exhibit Center, built in the 1970s which houses the museum's pre-history exhibit; the Transportation Building, built in 1937 and houses the museum's rolling stock; and the School House, built as a replica to the first school house built in Prescott in 1868.
Sharlot Hall Museum also has a Library and Archives, located across the street at 115 S. McCormick Street. It provides full-service research opportunities through its vast collections of rare books and special holdings of original documents, photographs, maps, and oral histories.
CLUB SERVICE
Our Satellite Prescott Valley Rotary Club meets again this Tuesday, Feb. 11, at 4:30 at the Elks Club. Consider brnging a PV resident with you as a prospective member. Help us support and grow our satellite club.
Club Secretary Mel Berry donned the birthday hat and glasses last Wednesday to let us help her celebrate her birthday.
Want a polo shirt with our Rotary emblem? They are available in a variety of sizes for $20. If you are intertested in wearing this stylish shirt for our events, like our Family Fun Fest on June 22, please bring your money to the next meeting. If you are unable to attend the next meeting, contact Sarah Van Bourgondien at bslsvb@gmail.com.
Next Sunup Family Fun Fest meeting st Touchmark will be held on Tuesday, Feb. 18, at 5:00 p.m.
RSVP to Marsha Teller at marsha.byrne@gmail.com or Cell Phone: (847) 687-4249. Guests are cordially invited. Final date for reservations is March 12.
COMMUNITY SERVICE
Plan to bring your nonperishable food donations for the hungry students at Yavapai College NEXT week, on Feb. 19.
Thank you to the following Rotarians for shopping and delivering food from our club for PASS: A.J. Sheridan (January) and Richard Hernandez (February).
Laura Vanderberg says our Snack Shack will probably be opening in early March. We will be using an online sign-up system to work shifts on the game days. Tim Wiederaenders will be setting this up. Since we have new members, Laura says we will be offering a training session at the Snack Shack before the season begins..
DISTRICT NEWS
We have become prisoners of our phones.
That is why they are called cell phones.
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Being popular on Facebook
is like sitting at the “cool table” in the cafeteria of a mental hospital.
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A three-year old went with his grandfather to see a litter of kittens.
On returning home he breathlessly informed his grandmother that there were two boy kittens and two girl kittens.
“How do you know?” his grandmother asked.
“Grandpa picked them up and looked underneath,” he replied. “I think it’s printed on the bottom.”
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Today I saw an ad that said "radio for sale, $1, volume stuck on full."
I thought, “I can’t turn that down!”
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Sweet Talk for Valentine’s Day:
“Are you a magician?
Because whenever I look at you, everyone else disappears.”
“Do you have a map?
I keep getting lost in your eyes.”
“Are you a chocolate bar?
Because you make my heart melt.”
“Is your name Google?
Because you’ve got everything I’m searching for.”
“If you were a vegetable,
you’d be a cute-cumber.”
“Do you have a sunburn?
Or are you always this hot?”
“Do you have a pencil?
Because I want to erase your past and write our future.”
“Are you a star?
Because your beauty lights up the night.”
“Are you a candle?
Because you light up my life.”
“Are you a coffee bean?
Because you’ve bean on my mind all day.”
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