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Sedona Visitors Enjoy Annual Trappings of the American West Exhibition
This year at Trappings of the American West, the Dry Creek Arts Fellowship and the Museum of Northern Arizona are honoring the work of 78 artists from 14 Western states, Hawaii, and Canada...
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Visitors Celebrate Christmas At Riordan State Historic Park
Celebrate Christmas in traditional fashion by touring historic homes at Riordan Park, decorated in turn-of-the-century style with wreaths, garlands, greenery and a towering fir tree trimmed with old-fashioned ornaments...
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Sedona Visitors Enjoy New Holiday Trunk Shows At The Museum of Northern Arizona
Two Southwestern trading companies from Santa Fe, New Mexico, and Bluff, Utah, will spice up the holidays at the Museum of Northern...
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Sedona Visitors Enjoy Celebraciones de la Gente Day of the Dead Celebration in Flagstaff Arizona
Community, migration, immigration, song, and dance are highlighted this year at the Museum of Northern Arizona 4th Annual Celebraciones de la Gente in Flagstaff...
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Sedona Arizona Visitors Enjoy Trappings Exhibit At The Museum Of Northern Arizona
The Museum of Northern Arizona and the Dry Creek Arts Fellowship proudly present the 18th Annual Trappings of the American West exhibition. Returning to MNA in October and continuing through...
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Sedona Arizona Visitors Enjoy Annual Southwest Native American Film Festival
The 4th Annual Southwest Native American Film Festival will be held in Flagstaff, at the Museum of Northern Arizona and the Coconino Center for the Arts, October 5 and 6, 2007...
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Flagstaff, Arizona,
Truly a Unique Southwest Community
If you leave Sedona by winding up the lush oasis of Oak Creek Canyon, you'll ascend about 2000 feet and find yourself in a strikingly different landscape, and a truly unique Southwestern community.
Flagstaff is a place to escape the desert's heat, to enjoy the flavor of the Old West as well as a lively urban scene, and to connect with nature in some of the most beautiful and peaceful places you'll ever set foot in. Just about an hour away from the Grand Canyon and 40 minutes from Sedona, Flagstaff is an ideal spot from which to base your exploration of Northern Arizona.
The native people of the Colorado Plateau have been living in the Flagstaff area for thousands of years, long before European settlers began to enjoy the resources of its abundant forests and rich meadows, and before Phoenix residents began building summer homes to escape the Valley of the Sun's blistering heat. (At 7,000 feet above sea level, summer temperatures in Flagstaff are regularly 25 degrees cooler than those in Phoenix.) While the previous commerce conduits of the railroad and Route 66 still criss-cross the town, Northern Arizona University, with about 18,000 students, is the main economic engine in Flagstaff today.
Looming over the town is the serrated profile of the San Francisco Peaks, with Humphrey's Peak at the highest point of 12,643 feet. These mountains are sacred to the Navajo and the Hopi people, long regarded as a source of physical and spiritual medicine and as the place where the world of man and the gods intersect. The Hopi's Kachinas, spirit-beings who are said to intercede in nearly every aspect of man's life, reside among the Peaks for half the year, then descend to maintain the natural order of the world.
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