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SCA annual meeting on Thursday to feature local author Harry O'Neil
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| The Land Before Horizon Harry O'Neil shows a copy of his recently published book to Sunsites Community Librarian Louise Sirois. O'Neil will have book signings at the SCA Annual Meeting on Thursday and at the Sunsites Visitor Center on Friday. (Courtesy / Anna Nickell) |
The Sunsites Community Association invites you to attend the annual meeting at the Sunsites Community Center at 6 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 11.
The meeting will include a pie and ice cream social, election of board members, guest speakers and a special appearance by local historian Harry O'Neil who will be on hand to discuss his book, The Land Before Horizon.
The book costs $25. O'Neil will sign and sell them at the meeting.
O'Neil wrote The Land Before Horizon as a part of the Sunsites Memory Project, a collaborative community effort sponsored by the Sunsites Community Association, the Sunsites Community Library and the Pearce-Sunsites Chamber of Commerce.
The Land Before Horizon
New Book Describes Local Area Before Establishment of Sunsites
By Harry O'Neil
If the residents of Sunsites could stand on their rooftops and look back through time, what would they see?
Local historian Harry O'Neil has saved us the trouble of doing this. His book, The Land Before Horizon, takes us on a chronological journey of the Sunsites region from pre-historic times up to 1962, the year the Horizon Land Corporation altered the landscape.
Chapters of this book include such topics as the era of pre-
historic Indians, the Spanish and Mexican occupation, the Apaches and Chiricahua Indian Reservation, railroad surveyors, stage lines, the open-range cattlemen, the homesteaders during the early 20th Century, the development of local roads, railroads and the first automobiles.
Other topics are the history of the Servoss community, the Great Depression era, the World War II era and the 1950s, the beginning of the area phone cooperative (it happened here), the first people to have electricity, the last land owners before Horizon arrived, other nearby land developments and a brief overview of all the projects planned by the Horizon Land Corporation.
Maps and many photographs round out this in-depth history of a region that would have seemed in 1962 to be just a broad expanse of empty high desert lying east of the Dragoon Mountains. Now we know that our area of Arizona has a very rich and interesting cultural history.
The meeting will include a pie and ice cream social, election of board members, guest speakers and a special appearance by local historian Harry O'Neil who will be on hand to discuss his book, The Land Before Horizon.
The book costs $25. O'Neil will sign and sell them at the meeting.
O'Neil wrote The Land Before Horizon as a part of the Sunsites Memory Project, a collaborative community effort sponsored by the Sunsites Community Association, the Sunsites Community Library and the Pearce-Sunsites Chamber of Commerce.
The Land Before Horizon
New Book Describes Local Area Before Establishment of Sunsites
By Harry O'Neil
If the residents of Sunsites could stand on their rooftops and look back through time, what would they see?
Local historian Harry O'Neil has saved us the trouble of doing this. His book, The Land Before Horizon, takes us on a chronological journey of the Sunsites region from pre-historic times up to 1962, the year the Horizon Land Corporation altered the landscape.
Chapters of this book include such topics as the era of pre-
historic Indians, the Spanish and Mexican occupation, the Apaches and Chiricahua Indian Reservation, railroad surveyors, stage lines, the open-range cattlemen, the homesteaders during the early 20th Century, the development of local roads, railroads and the first automobiles.
Other topics are the history of the Servoss community, the Great Depression era, the World War II era and the 1950s, the beginning of the area phone cooperative (it happened here), the first people to have electricity, the last land owners before Horizon arrived, other nearby land developments and a brief overview of all the projects planned by the Horizon Land Corporation.
Maps and many photographs round out this in-depth history of a region that would have seemed in 1962 to be just a broad expanse of empty high desert lying east of the Dragoon Mountains. Now we know that our area of Arizona has a very rich and interesting cultural history.
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