The series will highlight local and state history. The Museum will host one speaker per month in the Museum's Auditorium.
All programs are free and open to the public.
Rev. Polzer is an author, Roman Catholic priest, and former curator of ethnohistory at the Arizona State Museum. He is an expert on Father Kino and Hispanic missions, recognized in Spain with the order of Isabela la Catolica. It is sponsored by the Arizona Humanities Council. He works for SRP where he managed the Y2K project. He will cover the effects of the federal government and Mormon church policies on Mesa's past, 1878-1911.