Currently, the Oro Valley Historical Society continues the exhibit “The Santa Catalinas – Our Magnificent Mountains”. Information about the geology, indigenous people, early settlers, mining, and Santa Catalina State Park is on display in the Pusch House Museum at historic Steam
Pump Ranch on Saturdays from 9 a.m. to noon.
Jim Click Raffle Supporters – you will have the opportunity to see this year’s First Place Prize of the 2024 Jeep Wrangler Rubicon 4xe Plug-in Hybrid (MSRP starting at $61,180) at Steam Pump
Ranch! The Society will have it on display for you to envision what it would be like to win it for your family. We will be selling raffle tickets that day (as we do every Saturday this fall), and you could be the lucky winner! Tickets are only $25 or 5 for $100, and ALL proceeds support the Oro Valley Historical Society due to the kindness of Jim Click. So, visit the Ranch on October 12 to
buy tickets, see the Museum, indulge in the goodies at the Heirloom Farmers’ Market, and see what treasures the vendors have brought for you!
Join the Oro Valley Historical Society on October 15 at 2 p.m. at the Oro Valley Public Library to hear a presentation by author Venetian Hobson Lewis about her recent book Changing Woman A Novel of the Camp Grant Massacre. The author states that “the line between fiction and nonfiction is blurred in my novel because my fictional characters interact with the actual perpetrators as they go about retracing their actions taken in 1871, both in relation to the massacre and in their private lives”.
Ms. Lewis lives north of Tucson about 25 miles from the site of the massacre, and spent about 4 years doing research through historical texts and primary documents and travels over the same roads taken by the perpetrators and to the actual location a handful of times—one time on the anniversary of the killing and at the approximate time to experience as nearly as possible the same conditions the perpetrators and victims experienced.
The talk is open to everyone, and the author will have books available for sale. There is no charge for the event, and donations to the Oro Valley Historical Society are gratefully welcome.
Come visit our booth at the Oro Valley Marketplace during the Oro Valley Fall Foodie and Art Festival from 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. on October 26 and 27. The Oro Valley Historical Society will be exhibiting items that will highlight Oro Valley‘s past from the indigenous people to early settlers, including original paintings and artifacts from donated collections. We will definitely have a donation box to help keep Oro Valley history alive! We want to show our community the rich heritage of our area from indigenous cultures to present day. We want to be involved – history loves company!