Originally posted to the web in News, on Wednesday, March 19, 2008 12:07 PM CDT.
Hispanic settlement featured in lecture Thursday
From an off-road desert bloom tour to teaching you how to Dutch oven cook to providing the fascinating history of old Wickenburg and the surrounding Sonoran Desert, the Desert Caballeros Western Museum has it all as part of its “Way Out West Spring Series.”
Kicking off the spring series will be a talk on Hispanic settlement in the Arizona Territory by Julie Brooks, executive director of the Wickenburg Chamber of Commerce, whose roots go back five generations in Wickenburg to a time when the town and its surrounding ranches were steeped in Hispanic tradition.
To be held on Thursday (March 20) from 8:30 to 9:30 a.m., Brooks’ talk is part of the museum’s popular “Hassayampa Lecture Series.”
The final lecture in the Hassayampa series will take place on Thursday, April 10 when Roy and Kathy Moore of Congress visit the museum to share their own stories in a talk entitled “Ranching the Desert in the Early Days.” It, too, will be held from 8:30 to 9:30 a.m.
Both of the Hassayampa lectures are free and open to the public.
On Saturday, March 22, the museum will offer a unique, day-long class in Dutch oven cooking with Mark “Dutch” Wilkins, Arizona State Champion of the International Dutch Oven Society. To be staged at one of the cookout sites at Rancho de los Caballeros historic ranch and resort, the unusual event will combine both history and gastronomy.
Those in attendance will not only be treated to a Dutch oven breakfast, but will then prepare their own mid-day meal complete with dessert.
Sign-up is limited to 25 people, and the cost is $50 for museum members and $75 for all others. Ovens, food, utensils and recipes will be provided, and casual clothes and outdoor shoes are recommended.
The final event of the museum’s “Way Out West Spring Series” will be its also very popular “Desert Blooms Off-Road Adventure Tour.” Scheduled for Thursday, April 3 from 9 a.m. until noon, the tour will be led by desert expert Joe Stevens.
Cost of the tour is $50 for members and volunteers and $75 for all others.
To make reservations for the museum’s spring events, call 684-2272, extension 100.
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