Heritage Lecture Series

 

FREE EVENT
Route 66 is celebrating 100 years this year, but did you know there’s a more traveled historic highway that ran through the Southwest Valley?
Join writer, producer, and host of AZ: The History of Arizona, David Rookhuyzen to learn about the rise of the U.S. highway system, U.S. 80, and the parts of Old U.S. 80 you can still see today. The program is sponsored in part by APS.

 

Host of the podcast, “AZ: The History of Arizona”, David Rookhuyzen is a native Arizona and graduate of Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication. He worked as journalist for small-market newspapers for nearly a decade, including in Green Valley and Sierra Vista, and then for the Arizona Department of Transportation’s communications team. He currently does communications work for a health plan. A history nerd from a young age, he started AZ: The History of Arizona as a way to bring his love of both his home state and all things historical to everyone.