We hope to see you at our meeting Saturday, April 6, 2024.
Registration & Lunch: 12:00 NOON
Presentation: 1:00 P.M.
PROGRAM: The Perfume of History
PRESENTER: Ron Benson
LOCATION: Tucson Medical Center’s Marshall Conference Center – 5301 E Grant Road 85712 (enter on the east side of TMC)
MEAL COST: $10 per person.
PRINTABLE RESERVATION FORM: PDF FORMAT or WORD FORMAT
Please return reservation by April 2, 2024, to P.O. Box 40744, Tucson, AZ 85717. Also, please enclose your payment for the cost of the lunch with the reservation.
For more information please call (520) 795-9484.
When white settlers began arriving in the Santa Cruz valley, in the 1800s, they noted the almost total scarcity of peach, pear, apricot, and other fruit trees. Yet, the flowing water in the Santa Cruz and Rillito rivers created rich bottom lands that offered fertile grounds for agricultural growth. Hundreds of fruit trees were imported from New York and planted all around the homes in downtown Tucson. Did that experiment survive? If so, where are those trees today? Was there a later resurgence in fruit tree planting? When and where did that occur? Are any of those long-ago planted trees still about?
Ron Benson (alter ego at the right) is the author of “Arzona’s First Sheriff: Berry Hill De Armitt,” published in the January 2024 edition of The Smoke Signal, the historical magazine of the Tucson Corral of the Westerners, and of “The Perfume of History”, published in the Desert Leaf magazine in April 2024.