The New Living History of Fred Harvey, the Santa Fe and the Great Southwest: A Panel Discussion

This lively panel discussion and question-and-answer session on the past and future of research on Fred Harvey, the Harvey Girls, Mary Colter, Native art and the Santa Fe railroad starts at 11:30 a.m. (A book-signing precedes the panel at 11 a.m.)

Panelists include Stephen Fried, author of the recent best-selling historical biography Appetite for America: Fred Harvey and the Business of Civilizing the Wild West — One Meal at a Time; Diana Pardue, Heard Museum Curator of Collections (who curated the museum’s landmark Fred Harvey show in 1996 that reinvigorated research in all things Harvey); and Dr. Paul Hirt, Arizona State University associate professor of history, historian of the American West and an expert on the nature and history of the Grand Canyon.

Co-sponsored by the Heard Museum and Arizona State University.

A limited quantity of Stephen Fried’s book, Appetite For America: Fred Harvey and the Business of Civilizing the Wild West — One Meal at a Time, will be available for purchase at this event. To ensure getting a copy, please call Books & More at 602.251.0258 to pre-pay for each copy. Copies will be held for pick up at any time before the event. Book purchasers must be present at (or send a friend to) the event to have the book signed.

Diana Pardue, Curator of Collections at the Heard Museum

Paul Hirt, associate professor of history, Arizona State University (Photo courtesy Arizona State University)