OTM History Highlights
History Highlights is the Old Trails Museum’s free program series, which offers speakers, exhibits, and events that highlight historical topics of Northern Arizona. Listed below are the upcoming presentations along with links to the History Highlights the museum has presented thus far. (Above: A 1930 tourism map shows Winslow at a transportation and tourism crossroads)
2026: Celebrating the Centennial of Route 66
- 2026 Spring Route 66 History Highlight: Footsteps from the Past: Retracing the Epic 1928 Route 66, 3,400-Mile Bunion Derby Footrace Across Northern Arizona by Neil Weintraub on Saturday, March 21, at 5 pm at the Winslow Visitors Center
- 2026 Summer Route 66 History Highlight: (Mother) Road to the Stars: Rt 66 and its Space Heritage by Kevin Schindler on Saturday, June 6, at 5 pm at the Winslow Visitors Center
- 2026 Fall Route 66 History Highlight: The Rise and Fall of the Route 66 Meteorite Museum by Ken Zoll on Saturday, September 12, at 5 pm at the Winslow Visitors Center
- Route 66 Centennial History Highlight: 100 Years of Route 66 in Winslow by Ann-Mary Lutzick on Saturday, November 7, at 5 pm at the Winslow Visitors Center
2025
- 2025 Summer History Highlight: 100 Western Women: The Bold, Brave, Gutsy Women of Arizona’s Past by Jan Cleere on July 18 at La Posada Hotel
- 2025 Spring History Highlight: Dark Skies over Arizona by Kevin Schindler on April 19 at La Posada Hotel
2024
2024 History Highlight: Footsteps from the Past: Retracing the Epic 1928 Route 66, 3,400-Mile Bunion Derby Footrace Across Northern Arizona by Neil Weintraub on April 20 at La Posada Hotel
2023
2023 History Highlight: H. H. Nininger: Master of Meteorites by Ken Zoll on April 29 at La Posada Hotel
2022
- 2022 Fall History Highlight: For the Love of Turquoise by Carrie Cannon on November 5 at the Winslow Arts Trust Museum
- 2022 Summer History Highlight: Saviors and Saints on the Arizona Frontier by Jan Cleere on July 23 at the Winslow Arts Trust Museum
- 2022 Spring History Highlight: Desert Rats, River Runners, and Canyon Crawlers: Four Arizona Explorers by Gregory McNamee on April 23 via via Virtual Arizona Speaks from Arizona Humanities
2021
- 2021 Fall History Highlight: More than Pocahontas and Squaws: Indigenous Women Coming into Visibility by Dr. Laura Tohe on November 27 via Virtual Arizona Speaks from Arizona Humanities
- 2021 Summer History Highlight: Revealing History – A Look at Community Through Arizona’s Historical Newspapers by Sativa Peterson on July 24 via Virtual Arizona Speaks from Arizona Humanities
- 2021 Spring History Highlight: The New Deal and the Civilian Conservation Corps in Arizona: Connections to Our Historic Landscapes by Robin Pinto on April 24 via Virtual Arizona Speaks from Arizona Humanities
2020
2020 History Highlight: The Ballad of Arizona by Jay Cravath and Dan Shilling on December 5 via Virtual Arizona Speaks from Arizona Humanities
2019
- 2019 Summer History Highlight: On the Road Since 1925: The Colorful History of Arizona Highways Magazine by Win Holden on August 10 at the Winslow Arts Trust Museum
- 2019 Spring History Highlight: Legacies of the Past: Arizona Women Who Made History by Jan Cleere on May 5 at the Winslow Arts Trust Museum
- 2019 Winter History Highlight: Hi Jolly and Mystery of the US Army Camel Corps by Casey Davis on February 9 at the Winslow Visitors Center
2018
- 2018 Fall History Highlight: Arizona’s First Meteorite Man: H.H. Nininger by Kenneth Zoll on October 11 at the Winslow Visitors Center
- 2018 Summer History Highlight: Sheep Ranchers and Herders of Arizona by Dr. Barbara Jaquay on August 11 at La Posada Hotel
- 2018 Spring History Highlight: Cowpokes, Crooks, and Cactus: Arizona in the Movies by Gregory McNamee on May 19 at La Posada Hotel
- 2018 Winter History Highlight: Riders on the Orphan Train – Arizona’s Hidden History by Alison Moore and Phil Lancaster on February 17 at the Winslow Visitors Center
2017
- 2017 Fall History Highlight: Coast to Coast in 48 Hours!: Winslow and America’s First Transcontinental Airline Service by Erik Berg on September 14 at the Winslow Visitors Center
- 2017 Summer History Highlight: Native Roads: A Pictorial Guide to the Hopi and Navajo Nations by Jim Turner on July 9 at La Posada Hotel
- 2017 Spring History Highlight: A Woman by Design, a Play about Mary Colter by Edgeware Productions on April 8 & 9 at La Posada Hotel
- 2017 Winter History Highlight: Fireside Stories: Who Did You Say Was Here? by Lisa Schnebly Heidinger on February 12 at La Posada Hotel
2016
- 2016 Fall History Highlight: Written in Thread: Arizona Women’s History Preserved in Their Quilts by Pamela Knight Stevenson on September 29 at the Winslow Visitors Center
- 2016 Summer History Highlight: The Eagle and the Archaeologists: The Lindbergh’s 1929 Aerial Survey of Southwest Prehistoric Sites by Erik Berg on July 29 at the Winslow Visitors Center
- 2016 Spring History Highlight: Arizona’s War Town: Flagstaff, Navajo Ordnance Depot, and World War II by Dr. John Westerlund on May 14 at the Winslow Visitors Center
- 2016 Winter History Highlight: Arizona’s Historic Trading Posts by Carolyn O’Bagy Davis on February 13 at La Posada Hotel
2015
- 2015 Fall History Highlight: Fred Harvey: Branding the Southwest by Sean Evans on October 31 at La Posada Hotel
- 2015 Summer History Highlight: Armed with Our Language, We Went to War: The Navajo Code Talkers by Dr. Laura Tohe on August 15 at La Posada Hotel
- 2015 Spring History Highlight: Ancient Landscapes of the American Southwest by Wayne Ranney on April 19 at La Posada Hotel
- 2015 Winter History Highlight: From Territory to Today: Northern Arizona’s History Through Its Objects by Dr. Bill Peterson on January 31 at La Posada Hotel
2014
- 2014 Fall History Highlight: Snowdrift Art Space: One Hundred Years of History exhibit at Snowdrift Art Space’s Centennial Celebration at Snowdrift Art Space
- 2014 Summer History Highlight: Coast to Coast in 48 Hours!: Winslow and America’s First Transcontinental Airline Service by Erik Berg on July 26 at the 2014 High Desert Fly-In
- 2014 Spring History Highlight: Winslow Branding Days presentation by Jan MacKell Collins on May 23 and windmill branding event on May 24, both at the Winslow Visitors Center
- 2014 Winter History Highlight: Hopi Quilting: Stitched Traditions from an Ancient Community by Carolyn O’Bagy Davis on February 21 at La Posada Hotel
2013
2013 History Highlight: The Harvey Girls: Opportunity Bound documentary screening on October 13 at the Winslow Movie Theater
