Glendale, Arizona, Writer Scott Thybony presents stories and images from Northern Arizona's intriguing Painted Desert. He
focuses on a corner of this landscape -- a hoodoo land of wind-carved
cliffs and shifting dunes lying at the heart of the desert. He tells
the story through the lives of an eccentric anthropologist, a
pioneering biologist, a movie star, and a half-crazed prophet who
believed he had discovered the construction site of Noah's Ark.
- WHEN: Thursday, April 20, 2006 7:00 p.m.
- WHERE: Glendale Foothills Library 19055 North 57th Avenue Glendale, AZ
Scott Thybony is an anthropologist by education and a writer by profession.
He has written books and articles for National Geographic, and his work
has appeared in major newspapers and magazines. Burntwater was chosen
as a finalist for a PEN literacy award in creative nonfiction, and he
has a book on the Painted Desert in press. The Flagstaff resident has
lived with native peoples in the American Southwest and the Arctic; His
extensive travels have resulted in award-winning articles for magazines
such as Smithsonian, Men's Journal, and Outside. The former river guide
and archeologist brings to his writing an enthusiasm for remote places
and the people who inhabit them.
Canyon Country Community Lectures are sponsored by Grand Canyon Association, NAU Cline Library, City of Glendale, Grand Canyon Semester and Sharlot Hall Museum. For more information on this series or the Grand Canyon Association contact Helen Thompson:
Direct Line: 928.638.7033
Fax: 928.638.2484
Email: hthompson@grandcanyon.org
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