Presidio Museum Holiday Celebration

Date and Time for this Past Event

• Saturday, Dec 9, 2023  10am - 2pm

Location

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Details

Included with admission

Celebrate the holidays at the Presidio and learn about the different celebrations that go on during the month of December by different cultures and religions:

**Carrillo School performing Las Posadas at 11:30 am
**Jewish History Museum presenting a Hanukkah activity
**Travelers’ Tales including the story of Maria Feliciano Arballos, a woman of African descent who participated in the December 1775 fandango while on the Anza Expedition

In addition, a Holiday Book Sale with local authors selling and signing their books will be part of the event.  Authors currently participating are:

**Homer Thiel  (Presidio Families, Local Deaths, Smoke Signal)
**Dorothy Yanez  (Downtown Tucson Murals and Public Art Tours & Tucson’s Birthplace Through Pictures)
**Carolyn Niethammer  (several cookbooks)
**David Devine (Historic Tales of Territorial Tucson: 1854-1912 and other local books)
**William Hartmann  (Cities of Gold, Searching for Golden Empires)
**Jean Baxter and Judy Nostrant  (Sweetie the Rooster)