Through Our Parents' Eyes

Tohono O'odham Veteran's Band, performed at the Tucson Meet Yourself, October 9, 1993, TMY 1993-R6. During the introduction to their performance, The O'odham Veterans Band explained that there are four types of Waila music: Waila, Choti, Watersaw and Mazurka. A fifth and more recent addition, they added, is the Cumbia. Performers: Francisco Antone (Marines) saxophone; Sylvester Oliver, Sr. (Army) guitar; Mr. Henry (Marines), accordian; Irving Lopez (Marines), drums; Phillip (Marines)

Tohono O'odham Veteran's Band, performed at Tucson Meet Yourself, October 9, 1993, TMY 1993-R6. During the introduction to their performance, The O'odham Veterans Band explained that there are four types of Waila music: Waila, Choti, Watersaw and Mazurka. A fifth and more recent addition, they added, is the Cumbia. Performers: Francisco Antone (Marines) saxophone; Sylvester Oliver, Sr. (Army) guitar; Mr. Henry (Marines), accordian; Irving Lopez (Marines), drums; Phillip (Marines)

Tallia Cahoon leads us on a tour of the ghost town of Ruby, Arizona, her childhood home. Tallia grew up in Ruby during the mining town's heyday. She shares tales and history of the mine, the school house, the jail and more.

Diana Hadley presented "300 Years of Ranching in Southern Arizona" as part of a Pima Community College's Community Education Series event held on November 7, 2009. Diana Hadley is Head of the Office of Ethnohistorical Research/Documentary Relations of the Southwest at the Arizona State Museum and a local rancher.

Casey Dennis presented "The Riggs Family and Its Involvement in Cattle Ranching in Southeastern Arizona" as part of a Pima Community College's Community Education Series event held on November 7, 2008. Casey Dennis is a rancher and a descendant of the Riggs family, a ranching family with more than 130 years of cattle ranching in southeastern Arizona.

Bill Kalt, a lifelong educator and author of "Tucson Was a Railroad Town," presented "A History of the Railroad in Tucson" as part of a Pima Community College's Community Education Series event held on October 23, 2008.

Richard Dick, railroad historian and committee member of the Southern Arizona Transportation Museum, presented "Echos of Southern Arizona Railroads: Railroad Development - 1880 to Present" as part of a Pima Community College's Community Education Series event held on October 23, 2008.

John "Buck" Ryberg performed "Cool Water" on November 7, 2008, at Pima Community College's Community Education Lecture Series: "Ranching in Southern Arizona."

John "Buck" Ryberg performed "Man Walks Among Us" on November 7, 2008, at Pima Community College's Community Education Lecture Series: "Ranching in Southern Arizona."

A performance by The New Hope Baptist Church Choir, recorded October 11, 1987, at the Tucson Meet Yourself Festival. (The video was digitized in 2002 from an old VHS tape so the video quality is not as high as we like.)

David Tang's presentation on January 25, 2008, at the Tucson Chinese Community Center telling the story of his family coming to Tucson.

Big Jim Griffith tells us about Cinco de Mayo, celebrating the 1862 victory of Mexican soldiers over Maximilian I's French soldiers. For Mexican Americans it is an affirmation of cultural ties and a day of pride in Benito Juárez.

Ms. Patricia Stephenson tells about Louise Foucar Marshall's development of the west university neighborhood, beginning in 1901. She built the first suburban shopping center in Tucson, called for many years Marshall Square.

Ms. Stephenson's parents lived at 819 East First Street before she was born and continued living there long after she graduated from the University of Arizona. As she likes to say, Louise Foucar Marshall was like a third grandmother to her. Louise Foucar Marshall had a prominent role in developing the university neighborhood which was so much a part of Ms. Stephenson youth and early adult years.

In his introduction, Peter Yucopicio told the audience that Los Hermanos Cuatro performed "northern" norteño music which usually consists of an accordian, an electric bass, and a bajo sexto. Tucson Meet Yourself Festival October 10, 1993 TMY-1993/R-3-T Performers: The Yucopicio brothers

In his introduction, Peter Yucopicio told the audience that Los Hermanos Cuatro performed "northern" norteño music which usually consists of an accordian, an electric bass, and a bajo sexto. Tucson Meet Yourself Festival October 10, 1993 TMY-1993/R-3-T Performers: The Yucopicio brothers

Halloween Folk Song - Big Jim's amusing Halloween song. The ending, while not known as a Southern Arizona tradition, is one that has roots in many cultures.

Big Jim Griffith introduces Eduardo "Lalo" Guerrero. Lalo was a Mexican-American guitarist, singer and farm labor activist whose songs had a great influence in the Latin music community. In this selection Lalo sings Tucson and Barrio Viejo. from Tucson Meet Yourself Festival, October 7, 1994 TMY-1994/R6. For more visit Music of the Southwest http://msw.arizona.edu/content/lalo-guerrero

Take a video tour of a prehistoric rockpile field near Tumamoc Hill in Tucson, narrated by Dr. Suzanne Fish, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Archaeology Curator at the Arizona State Museum. The video was shot in August 2000.

Dr. James S. Griffith recounts the 1857 expedition of Henry Alexander Crabb and his party of American adventurers who attacked Caborca. Following the initial attack, the Caborcans sought refuge in the mission church and its attached convent, with Crabb's forces occupying buildings across the road from the church.

Marvin Bennett and Slim Kite at Tucson Meet Yourself 10/12/85 (reel 5). The poem was written by Gail Gardner (1892-1988) "based on a time when he and his saddle partner Bob Heckle were returning from a night on the town. They were riding horseback to their line came on the Dearing Ranch near Thumb Butte, Arizona. One of the drunken men joked that the Devil would surely get anyone who had been doing what they had been doing back there in town. And the other said that if the Devil tried to get them, they'd rope him and tie him to a black-jack oak tree, just like they did a steer. The poem was written on the Santa Fe Limited while Gardner was on his way to Washington D.C. to enlist during World War One." http://www.rangewriter.org/russellclarkgardner.htm

June 24th is El Dia de San Juan. Big Jim Griffith explains that on El Dia de San Juan prayers are offered to him to help bring the rains so the crops would be plentiful.

The story of the March 17, 1957 race between El Moro and Relampago – “The Dapple Grey” and “Lightning” and the corrido (a Mexican folk ballad) written by Leonardo Yañez about the race.