2018 Winslow Antique Appraisal Fair

If you’re ever wondered about that old family heirloom, bring it to the Winslow Antiques Appraisal Fair! The Old Trails Museum will host the third annual fair on Saturday, July 14, from 10 am to 4 pm at the Winslow Visitors Center/Hubbell Trading Post, 523 West Second Street.

Sean Morton of Morton Appraisals in Scottsdale is bringing his expertise back to Winslow so that residents can have their historic items identified and appraised. He will offer verbal appraisals (not in writing) of objects including (but not limited to): fine art paintings, prints, and sculpture from the 17th century to the modern; porcelain, crystal, silver, and antique furniture; clocks, antique jewelry, art glass, and pottery; manuscripts and signatures; and Asian art and Native American arts and crafts. (No guns, coins, or stamps will be appraised.)

To schedule your one-on-one appointment with Morton, call the Old Trails Museum at 928-289-5861 by Thursday, July 12. Attendance is limited to forty people, and each person is limited to two items for appraisal. The charge for the first item is $15 and for the second item is $5 – an excellent value versus the cost of a private appraisal.

Morton was born in Phoenix and grew up around antiques. He formed Morton Appraisals in 1993 as a certified, licensed, and insured appraiser as well as a member of the Antique Appraisal Association of America. He provides advice and fair market insurance appraisals to individuals, estates, companies, and public institutions. Morton regularly appears on PBS’s Arizona Collectables, which airs on Channel 8 on Thursdays at 7:30 pm and Saturdays at 11 am.

The Winslow Antiques Appraisal Fair is presented as a service to the community; the event is not a fundraiser and the charge is only to cover our costs. For the latest updates on all of the Old Trails Museum’s exhibits and programs, subscribe to our “News” feed or “like” the museum on Facebook.

 

 

 

 

 

/by

2018 Spring History Highlight: Arizona Movies

The Old Trails Museum offers its 2018 Spring History Highlight on Saturday, May 19, at 2 pm at La Posada Hotel, 303 East Second Street. Author Gregory McNamee will explore the tradition of movie-making in Arizona with the free presentation of Cowpokes, Crooks, and Cactus: Arizona in the Movies. 

In the spring of 1872, a 44-year-old immigrant from New Hampshire named Henry Hooker bought a herd of 10,000 longhorn cattle from Texas and moved them to a grassy valley in southeastern Arizona. He hired “cowboys” – the first Arizonans who would fit the description we think of when we use that word. With cowboys came outlaws, and with those outlaws, came the birth of the western novel – and with it the western film.

In this entertaining talk, you’ll learn about westerns made in Monument Valley, on the sand dunes of Yuma, in the grasslands on the Mexican border, and even in downtown Prescott, to say nothing of sound stages and movie lots in Scottsdale and Tucson. McNamee will discuss classic and contemporary examples such as Stagecoach (1939), The Outlaw (1943), Red River (1948), Junior Bonner (1972), Tombstone (1993), and Geronimo (1993).

After taking a quick-moving tour through westerns made in the Grand Canyon State, McNamee will also explore crime dramas, love stories, war movies, science-fiction classics, and creature features through films such as Sahara (1943), Lilies of the Field (1963), Raising Arizona (1987), Near Dark (1987), and Three Kings (1999). He’ll even tell us about a few films shot in and near our own city of Winslow, including Starman (1984) and Natural Born Killers (1994).

McNamee has written about films and film history for The Hollywood Reporter and Encyclopaedia Britannica. As a writer, journalist, and photographer, he has authored forty books and more than 5,000 periodical publications including articles, reviews, interviews, poems, and short stories. He is a contributing editor for Kirkus Reviews and Bloomsbury Review; publisher of Sonora Wordworks and Polytropos Press; and a research fellow at the Southwest Center and lecturer in the Eller School of Management, both at the University of Arizona. McNamee also gives courses and talks on writing, journalism, publishing, media and technology, and cultural and environmental issues.

The 2018 Spring History Highlight is made possible in part by Arizona Humanities, a non-profit organization and the Arizona affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities. For the latest updates on all of the Old Trails Museum’s exhibits and programs, subscribe to our “News” feed or “like” the museum on Facebook.

AH_logo

/by